Lead Dietitian
Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 8a
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum/pro rata
Please note this role is Fixed term/Secondment for 12 months covering maternity leave
We are recruiting for a Lead Dietitianwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
As the Lead for Dietetics at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, you will be responsible for ensuring the effective provision of the Dietetic service across specialities and the operational management of the Dietetic team.
The role includes responding to national initiatives and advising on appropriate clinical and professional strategy relating to dietetic practice.
As a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner, provide advanced assessment, treatment and advice / education to patients with acute or chronic, highly complex presentations.
To regularly undertake audit activity and contribute to research to ensure effective and evidence-based provision of services.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own clinical caseload and to manage the clinical risk within own caseload. The post holder is wholly accountable for their practice in line with the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics.
To be responsible for maintaining own capability and competency to practice through CPD activities and recognise the limits of individual competence and knowledge, undertake further training and academic qualifications as relevant to the role and service requirements, integrating new knowledge into current practice. Take responsibility for personal and professional updating and development, including mandatory training.
To manage patients with complex nutritional needs along their clinical pathway, formulating expert clinical opinion in order to; recommend best course of nutritional intervention, to reassess and progress treatments accordingly in order to develop, inform and influence discharge plans, to advise and plan further nutritional management elsewhere. This will require the interpretation and analysis of complex clinical information and consideration of the suitability of various treatment options.
To maintain highly developed physical skills where a high degree of precision and high levels of hand, eye and sensory co-ordination are essential. This may include procedures such as nasal gastric feeding tubes.
To take action where patients fail to meet expected milestones in their recovery, and, escalate concerns where patients nutritional needs are not met, working with members of the MDT to create innovative, bespoke solutions in order to optimise patient nutrition.
Participate in the appraisal process and maintain a professional portfolio which supports reregistration.
To ensure that, as an individual practitioner, the post holder maintains timely and effective communication with the Head of Therapies e.g. changes that my impact the delivery of Dietetic services, including staffing levels
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
ME5 7NY
https://www.medway.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)