Acute Team Lead Dietitian

NHS; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the North East is seeking an Acute Team Lead Dietitian to provide clinical leadership within the Nutrition and Dietetic Service. This permanent position is ideal for an experienced Dietitian with expertise in stroke management and leadership skills. The role involves leading a team, managing a clinical caseload, and supporting service development projects. Ideal candidates will have a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, HCPC registration, and recent experience in stroke as a clinical specialism.

Benefits

Support and initiatives for staff wellbeing

Qualifications

• Recent experience and expertise in relevant clinical field of stroke.
• Significant experience in leadership and leading a team.
• Experience of training and supervision of student dietitians.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective delivery of the Nutrition and Dietetic Service.
• Provide visible and professional clinical leadership.
• Manage a specialized clinical caseload.

Skills

Knowledge of stroke as a clinical specialism

Interpersonal skills

Clinical supervision skills

Analytical and problem solving skills

Leadership experience

Coaching skills

Education

Degree or postgraduate diploma/masters in Nutrition and Dietetics

Current HCPC registration

Relevant postgraduate qualification or training in specialist area

Teaching qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Nutrition and Dietetic Service within Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust for a highly motivated individual to join the Dietetic team in the role of Acute Team Lead Dietitian. This permanent post is ideal for an experienced Dietitian who wishes to combine a career in leadership with their clinical expertise. The post will provide professional and clinical leadership to qualified and non-qualified staff within the Nutrition and Dietetic Service.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the adult acute team within the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Clinical work will be predominantly in the specialism of stroke therefore a sound knowledge of dietetic post stroke management is important. The successful candidate will have good experience of enteral feeding and parenteral feeding and will be a key member of the Nutrition Team MDT.

In addition to the clinical role, successful candidates will have line management responsibilities for the acute inpatient team consisting of 2 band 6 dietitians and 3 band 5 dietitians. You will support the Nutrition and Dietetic Service Lead with service development projects, policy updates, recruitment, development and retention of staff and students within the department.

Informal enquiries are welcomed.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the effective delivery of the Nutrition and Dietetic Service into designated areas.

To assist with providing visible and professional clinical leadership across the service working in collaboration with the other Team leaders and assist the Nutrition and Dietetic Service Manager on professional matters.

To provide strong clinical leadership with a requirement to balance competing clinical and performance priorities, ensuring patients are treated by an appropriate member of the team.

To contribute to the ongoing development of a high quality, clinically effective Nutrition and Dietetic Service by enabling staff in designated teams to work within professional and governance frameworks.

To include day to day allocation of resources within the service, including supervision and support of staff and students in designated areas.

To manage a specialised clinical caseload undertaking the assessment, provision of advice and monitoring of the patients. This care will be provided be provided in the acute environment but may involve the community setting e.g. clinics within health centres.

To supervise, support, teach and appraise junior staff and students within the designated areas of the service.

To coordinate sickness absence, recruitment and retention, performance management, study leave and staff rotations for designated staff.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

For full details of job description and main responsibilities, please see Job Description for this post which is attached as a separate document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or postgraduate diploma/ masters in Nutrition and Dietetics
• Current HCPC registration
• Relevant postgraduate qualification or training in specialist area
• Teaching qualification
• Counselling skills course
• Leadership qualifications or willing to work towards
• Member of the BDA

Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of stroke as a clinical specialism
• Demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills including effective influencing, negotiation and motivation
• Clinical supervision or teaching skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Evidence of managing people effectively and being able to demonstrate leadership experience and skills
• Coaching skills

Experience

• Recent experience and expertise in relevant clinical field of stroke
• Evidence of strategic planning
• Experience of initiating, leading and carrying out audit
• Significant experience in leadership and leading a team
• Experience of training and supervision of student dietitians
• Experience of service development and change management
• Experience of clinically managing patients receiving parenteral nutrition
• Experience in involving patients/ carers in service development

Personal Qualities

• Strong leadership and vision
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Able to lead and motivate staff particularly in periods of change

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.