Clinical Specialist Dietitian

NHS; Chichester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Specialist Dietitian to join their acute adult team at Fairfield Hospital. This role involves providing nutritional assessment and intervention, supporting patient care, and developing dietetic services, with opportunities for professional growth and training.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Flexible working opportunities

Protected hours for health and wellbeing activities

Generous annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Extensive clinical experience in nutritional support including enteral feeding.
• Experience in parenteral nutrition and critical care.
• Advanced clinical supervisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality nutritional assessment and intervention for patients.
• Ensure evidence-based intervention and support service development.
• Lead dietetic clinical practices and supervise student placements.

Skills

Good written communication skills

Ability to work in stressful environments

Training others

Education

HCPC Registration

Member of the BDA

Member of specialist groups

Job description

Go back Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Specialist Dietitian

The closing date is 26 May 2025

Are you an experienced dietitian looking to work in the in-patient setting? An exciting opportunity has risen for an experienced dietitian looking to work within the acute adult team at Fairfield Hospital.This post provides an opportunity to work within specialist areas including stroke, parenteral nutrition, and critical care. Also, an opportunity to work with in-patients with eating disorders and disordered eating admitted for acute medical intervention.You will have opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills. You will also be able to develop and take part in staff teaching and training and maintain your own professional development.You will have a key role in the development of the dietetic service, with the opportunity to audit clinical practise and improve patient care.You will support and supervise student placements and Dietetic Assistants, as well as playing a key role in raising the profile of dietetics.You will be key in the development, implementation and audit of patient care practices as part of Clinical Governance.Development posts will be considered.

Main duties of the job

You will be the clinical lead for dietetics working alongside senior colleagues to provide quality nutritional assessment and intervention for our patients. You will ensure we provide evidence based intervention and support service development.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Qualifications

Registration

• HCPC Registration
• Member of the BDA
• Member of specialist groups

Knowledge

• Extensive clinical experience of nutritional support including enteral feeding
• Extensive experience of parenteral nutrition and critical care
• Advanced clinical supervisory skills

Skills

• Demonstrates good written communication skills without the use of Artificial Intelligence applications for example ChatGPT.
• Ability to work in stressful and unpredictable environment
• Evidence of training others

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.

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