Bank level 6 Specialist Adult Inpatient Dietitian

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

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Dietitian to join its community nutrition team. This role focuses on delivering high-quality nutritional care in a dynamic inpatient environment, supporting dietetic services across community hospitals. Candidates should have experience in clinical dietetics and a commitment to multidisciplinary teamwork. The position promises professional growth within a supportive framework, alongside opportunities for specialization in nutritional support and training of dietetic learners.

Benefits

Free parking at all community venues

Excellent access to IT equipment

Comprehensive admin support

Qualifications

• Substantive experience of post-registration clinical dietetics.
• Evidence of developing, implementing and evaluating projects.
• Evidence of teaching and assessing students.

Responsibilities

• Work under the dietetic team leader for inpatient units.
• Manage a complex caseload of inpatients.
• Provide specialized advice and second clinical opinion to other colleagues.

Skills

Verbal communication skills

Written communication

Teamworking

Nutritional knowledge application

Time management

Education

Dietitian registered with Health Professions Council

Job description

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A BANK ONLY POST AND NOT A PERMANENT SUBSTANTIVE POST

Have you ever wondered what happened to your patients once they transferred to a community hospital ward? Would you enjoy seeing how their dietetic care continues in a community setting? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has a vacancy in our high profile and dynamic community hospital inpatient team. This role can be flexed to nurture individuals at or near the start of their career or can build on and develop skills for more experienced dietitians.

This unique post is part of a multi professional community hospitals' dietetic team with good support from dietetic assistant practitioners. The team leads enteral feeding and supplement prescribing and provides high quality nutritional care at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital in Birmingham. Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role. You will also have opportunity to work alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding knowledge and practice.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Inpatient Dietetic Team and through this contribute to the development of nutrition support initiatives such as outcome measures, nutritional assessment and care pathways. This involves taking particular responsibility for initiatives and issues relating to enteral feeding in wards, such as the maintenance of the Trust Enteral Feeding Policy.

To manage a complex and diverse caseload of inpatients which includes liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely and cost effective nutrition support for patients who are enterally fed or on oral nutritional supplements.

To communicate effectively with colleagues within and outside the department to facilitate effective patient care, service development and multidisciplinary working. This includes attending relevant meetings regarding the patients to represent their nutrition and dietetic care.

Full duties and responsibilities are outlined in JD.

About us

This team is part of Birmingham Community Nutrition which provide a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham and Solihull ICB and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic learners from local higher education establishments.

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

The department has a comprehensive structure to support Clinical Governance and your personal development via annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.

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Job responsibilities

• Work under the dietetic team leader for inpatient units and support the development and delivery of the service provided.
• Work as an autonomous specialist practitioner, deputising for the dietetic team leader for the bedded units and be responsible for co-ordinating all areas of patient clinical care and service provision in their absence.
• Actively pass on, and also encourage others to share, their skills, knowledge and experience within both formal and informal environments, having responsibility for the development of other dietitians, health professionals and students.
• Fulfill all tasks and work as part of a team. This includes taking responsibility for delegated tasks, which do not fall within the work outlined, as reasonably requested by the Service Lead
• Deliver a high-quality dietetic service for stroke and adult inpatients at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital.
• Support multidisciplinary team working on the inpatient wards in order to develop and implement high quality, integrated patient care.
• Provide specialised advice and second clinical opinion to other colleagues, working in collaboration with other teams and services in order to support a consistent and equitable service.Full duties and responsibilities are outlined in JD.

Person Specification

Experience

• Substantive experience of post registration clinical dietetics
• Evidence of developing, implementing and evaluating projects
• Evidence of interest in nutrition support and home enteral feeding
• Evidence of multi disciplinary working
• Evidence of delivering training sessions
• Experience of teaching and assessing students
• Experience of supervising staff

Skills/knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Ability to generate written communication that is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
• Ability to work within a multicultural setting, including ability to teach groups and individuals from different backgrounds
• Ability to apply nutritional knowledge in a variety of settings
• Ability to plan and manage own time
• Demonstrates a sound knowledge and application of up-to-date evidence based clinical trends and practices
• A demonstrable understanding of dietetics within a community setting
• An ability to use information technology to maximise personal effectiveness, or a willingness to develop these skills
• An ability to demonstrate individual and team responsibility in respect of health and safety
• An ability to be very flexible in a changing environment
• An ability to work independently
• An ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working
• An ability to develop and maintain links with outside agencies
• An ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
• An ability to use tact and diplomacy where necessary
• Demonstrates innovative ideas

Other job requirements

• Ability to travel to different venues within the city, transporting equipment such as scales

Qualifications / Training

• Dietitian registered with Health Professions Council
• Evidence of Continual Professional Development

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.