Band 5 Community Dietitian Nutrition Support (Band 5) - Dietetics - Birmingham Community Health[...]

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking community healthcare organization as a Band 5 Community Dietitian. This role offers an exciting opportunity to engage with diverse patients, providing essential nutrition support and care. With a focus on professional development, you'll work alongside a supportive team, gaining experience in managing complex cases and developing your skills in a flexible working environment. Be part of a dedicated team that strives to improve health outcomes in the community, while enjoying comprehensive benefits and a commitment to work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Free Parking

Comprehensive Admin Support

NHS Terms and Conditions

Discounts for Local Retailers

Dedicated Well-being Services

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian with HCPC.
• Experience in clinical dietetics and nutrition support.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of adult community nutrition support patients.
• Conduct assessments and develop nutritional goals with patients.

Skills

Nutrition Support

Communication Skills

Time Management

Clinical Dietetics

Evidence-Based Decision Making

Education

Degree in Dietetics

Job description

Find out more about applying to join Team BCHC.

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Community services are a key part of the NHS of the future. Be part ofthat future now.Join us and help achieve better care andhealthier communities.

Band 5 Community Dietitian Nutrition Support

Band 5

Main area Dietetics Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 820-7152262-ASR

Site Gee Business Centre Town Birmingham Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 03/06/2025

Job overview

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

Are you passionate about nutrition support and keen to consolidate and extend your skills in this clinical area? Due to internal promotions, an exciting opportunity has arisen for early-career registered dietitians to join our friendly community nutrition support team.

Our Band 5s provide specialist assessment & intervention for adult community patients requiring oral nutrition support, acting as a resource for junior staff and other health professionals in the management of undernutrition across Birmingham. Our Band 6s and 7s are committed to supporting your development and you will have regular opportunities to shadow specialist practice and start working with more complex patients, including home enteral feeding patients.

We are seeking applications from registered dietitians or student dietitians close to graduation, with a strong interest in nutrition support, excellent communication and time management skills, and a patient-centred and solution-focused professional practice.

We offer a flexible working environment in a supportive team, with the opportunity to build fulfilling relationships with your patients and colleagues, plus an excellent track record of developing our Band 5s to move into more specialist roles.

Main duties of the job

You will triage, assess and manage a caseload of adult community nutrition support patients – this includes visiting patients in their own homes and care homes, and carrying out community clinics via telephone or in health centres around Birmingham. We try to arrange this practically to avoid excessive travel time for our team members.

After a comprehensive induction you will have a high degree of autonomy in managing your caseload but we are a welcoming supportive team – there is always someone available to message or call, and we meet regularly face to face for clinical supervision and service development.

You will work closely with and give clinical supervision to our Band 4 Dietetic Assistant Practitioner, who works mainly with oral nutrition support patients in care homes. We are also proud to provide highly rated supervision to dietetic learners and apprentices.

The most important skills and qualities for success in this role are:

• the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people and build strong working relationships
• the willingness to learn and share your clinical knowledge in nutrition support and the medical conditions our patients live with
• starting to develop the ability to take complex, evidence-based decisions both in the management of individual patients and prioritisation of your overall caseload

Working for our organisation

Team members have diverse backgrounds and experience in clinical areas such as oncology, neurorehabilitation, paediatrics and diabetes, and we love to share our knowledge to ensure the best outcomes for our patients.

Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking, excellent access to IT equipment to work flexibly, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description & person specification document for a detailed description of the duties, responsibilities and key relationships of the role.

Highlights include:

• adhering to HCPC standards of proficiency, continuing professional development, conduct, performance and ethics
• undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients' clinical needs in a holistic manner, seeking support as appropriate
• negotiating and agreeing nutritional goals with patients/carers using motivational interviewing and counselling skills as appropriate, including identifying barriers to change and helping patients/carers to manage them
• liaising with a range of patients, carers, health professionals and suppliers to ensure the provision of effective nutrition support
• managing risk within own clinical caseload and escalating where appropriate
• MDT working with teams inside and outside the Trust
• contributing to clinical governance and quality improvement in the service including audit, research, clinical outcome measures, EPR improvement, and the development and review of local clinical pathways and policies
• achieving basic competencies in knowledge and care of enteral feeding tubes
• professional development opportunities and further shadowing and/or study relating to a range of clinical areas such as neurodegenerative conditions, COPD, dementia, dysphagia, enteral feeding and more, in order to develop the skills to work with complex patients
• supervision, teaching, co-ordination and assessment of students and support staff
• producing practical advice and resources by interpreting, translating and critically evaluating evidence and making this relevant to the intended audience

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

• Dietitian registered with Health Professions Council (HCPC)
• Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
• Evidence of continual professional development

Experience

• Experience of clinical dietetics
• Evidence of experience in nutrition support
• Evidence (either observational or own practice) of developing, implementing and evaluating projects
• Evidence of multi disciplinary working

Skills & Knowledge

• Understanding of community dietetics
• Evidence of ability to demonstrate verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Evidence of knowledge of the barriers to effective communication giving examples from experience on the ways these have been overcome
• Evidence of ability to generate written communication that is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
• Demonstration of awareness of diversity and evidence of an ability to work within a multicultural setting including teaching individuals and groups from different backgrounds
• An ability to use information technology to maximise personal effectiveness, or a willingness to develop these skills
• Evidence of an ability to plan and manage own time
• Demonstrate knowledge of application of Health Professions Council Code of Conduct and Standards of Proficiency for Dietitians
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and application of up-to-date evidence based clinical trends and practices in nutrition support
• Evidence of an ability to demonstrate individual and team responsibility in respect of health and safety

Personal Qualities

• An ability to be very flexible in a changing environment
• An ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working
• An ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
• An ability to work independently
• An ability to use tact and diplomacy where necessary

Other Job Requirements

• An ability to travel to different venues within the city on a daily basis transporting scales and other equipment

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc; are powerful tools that can help you in various stages of your job application and how they can be used in certain circumstances during your application process with BCHC. You can read more about acceptable use on our internet pages here

Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Sinead Walsh Job title Nutrition Support Team Leader Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0121 683 2300 Additional information

Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us for an informal discussion. We would be delighted to facilitate a visit to the department, shadowing with the team, and/or put you in touch with current team members to find out more about our work.

While this post is advertised as full time, we welcome applications from dietitians seeking flexible and/or part time working.

To discuss any of the above, please contact Sinead Walsh, Nutrition Support Team Leader, [e-mail] , or Lydia Reebye, Highly Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian, [e-mail] . We can both also be reached on 0121 683 2300.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
3, Priestley Wharf
Holt Street
Birmingham Science Park
B7 4BN

Office hours: Monday to Friday: 8.30 am - 5.00 pm

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