Dietitian

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

About
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 are 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.

Key details
Location: Site: Bury Living Well Centre
Address: Morley Street
Town: Bury
Postcode: BL9 9JQ
Major / Minor Region: Manchester

Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 5)

Specialty
Main area: Dietitian

Job Overview
Overview of Responsibilities
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Dietitian to join our friendly, forward thinking and supportive All Age Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service in Bury. This is an excellent chance to develop your experience and skills working with both adults and children in a variety of settings including community clinics, care homes and patients own homes. You will be dealing with a variety of conditions including nutrition support, coeliac disease, allergies, gastroenterology conditions, weight management, diabetes, and more.

You will undertake the nutrition assessment of patients referred to the dietetic service using analytical skills and evidence based practice to calculate nutritional requirements and formulate an individual treatment plan, under the guidance of the specialist dietitian where required.

If you are ready for a new challenge, are organised, have excellent communication skills and use a patient centred approach to your practice then Bury community dietitians welcome your application.

Main duties of the job
This post involves providing dietetic care to a variety of conditions including nutrition support, coeliac disease, allergies, gastroenterology conditions, weight management, diabetes, and more. Other main duties include:

• Decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands.
• To ensure the safe and timely transfer of patients on nutrition support between settings and liaise with appropriate internal and external agencies.
• Attend staff meetings and participate in discussions concerning the running of the nutrition and dietetic service.
• Participate in the achievement of dietetic department objectives.

We are involved in the training of student dietitians and staff development is a high priority. You will be fully supported by lead specialists to enable you to establish yourself in the role. We are committed to work based education and training to improve clinical skills and we actively encourage CPD and audit.

You will be a key member of our small, friendly and innovative nutrition and dietetic team which consists of 6 dietitians, 2 dietetic assistants and admin support. The team covers a range of specialities including oncology, neurology, enteral tube feeding, weight management, gastroenterology, allergies/intolerance and paediatrics.

Applicant requirements
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.

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• HCPC registration
• BSc. or MSc. in Nutrition and Dietetics Or BSc. in relevant science followed by Post Graduate Diploma.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience
Essential criteria

• Knowledge of nutritional needs and nutritional assessment.
• Basic competence in calculating nutritional requirements.
• Competent to develop nutritional care plans in community settings.
• Basic competence in assessment of Enteral feeding, use of Enteral feeding products, equipment and regimens.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and work in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Basic IT Skills.

Desirable criteria

• Reflective practice and portfolio development skills.
• Good presentation skills.
• Experience of team working.