Diabetes Lead Dietitian

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post; therefore please check your account regularly.

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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top-up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top-up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum. This temporary top-up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

Are you a Dietitian with an interest and experience in the specialty of Diabetes, ready to take the next step into a leadership role? We are seeking a Dietitian with significant post-registration Diabetes experience to join our team and help to shape our service as we increase our care provision to patients on insulin pump therapy.

This is a succession planning post and the successful candidate will be able to work alongside our highly experienced current lead dietitian whilst we deliver the funded expansion of the insulin pump service. A 12-month development period utilizing Annex 21 would be considered for dietitians ready to take the next step in their career with some additional guidance.

As the successful post holder, you will provide leadership and clinical expertise to the team of Diabetes dietitians working within secondary care. You will work as part of a supportive MDT, across the specialist areas covered by the secondary care Diabetes Team, which include inpatients, young adults, and antenatal, also providing clinical input in the new enhanced pump service. Your leadership duties will include support of the team of 6.6 WTE staff. ABUHB has a well-established leadership development course to help you build your non-clinical skills.

Main duties of the job

Whilst this post has been advertised as full time, applications from those wishing to work alternative hours will be considered.

This post will sit within the team of dietitians providing a service within the acute setting in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. You will be a member of the Adult Senior Team and have the support of band 7 colleagues working alongside you across the 4 acute sites. Your development needs will be supported by the Professional Manager and Deputy Head of Service.

We are a team of 36 dietitians working from 4 main hospital bases (GUH, RGH, NHH and YYF), across the specialties of Nutrition Support, Critical Care, Gastroenterology, Stroke, Oncology and Diabetes and have the support of a team of 10 dietetic support staff and 3 ward-based nutrition assistants. We value both staff and service development and actively participate in the dietetic student training programme for Wales.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent written communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Supervisory Skills in challenging circumstances e.g. supported staff member or student with additional development or supervisory needs

Experience

Essential criteria

• Has experience providing clinical supervision
• Experience working as part of a Diabetes MDT
• Experience providing dietetic care to patients with a range of types of diabetes.
• Experience providing dietetic care to patients treated with insulin.

Desirable criteria

• Experience delivering or supporting a service improvement project
• Experience as an Appraisal and Development Reviewer
• Experience providing the dietetic care for patients on insulin pump therapy

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BSC / MSc / PGDip Dietetics
• Dietetic Clinical Educators Course
• Stand alone module at M-level or specialist training as equivalent e.g. advanced educators or evidence-based practice

Desirable criteria

• Advanced Educators Course
• ILM level 3 or equivalent leadership training
• 60 credits at MSC level in relevant modules