Dietitian

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; In loco; GBP 27.000 - 34.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Learning and development

Peer support network

Staff wellbeing initiatives

Descrizione del lavoro

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Preston invites applications for a Rotational Dietitian (Band 5). This post provides experience across clinical areas including Respiratory, Stroke, Neurosciences, Oncology, Gastroenterology and community services.

You will join a supportive team of around 40 Dietitians and Dietetic Support staff, gain exposure to Specialist and Advanced Dietitians, and participate in student training with P2/P3 placements.

Competenze

• Newly qualified Dietitian or soon to graduate.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Willingness to learn in a rotational programme.

Mansioni

• Join Band 5 rotational programme across clinical areas.
• Support dietetic services and work with multidisciplinary teams.
• Assist in training Student Dietitians on P2/P3 placements.
• Contribute to service development and clinical audit activities.

Conoscenze

Communication skills

Time management

Organisation

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Dietetics

Descrizione del lavoro

We hope to be welcoming you to the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals team soon; we've shown you exactly why we're 'a great place to work', now it's time to see for yourself! Have a look at our current vacancies down below and make the first step to starting a fantastic new career. Need help with your NHS application? We've got you covered! Our brand-new step-by-step NHS Application Help Video will guide you through the process, making it easier, faster, and stress-free to apply. Additionally, you can check out our helpful Application Guide as well!

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Are you a newly qualified Dietitian, or soon to graduate? Are you looking to return to practice in Dietetics, or perhaps an existing Band 5 Dietitian keen for an exciting and varied new role to advance your career? Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust may just be the perfect place for you to join us as a Rotational Dietitian to further your experience. We pride ourselves on being an incredibly friendly and welcoming department, regularly receiving feedback from Student Dietitians and colleagues that we are like one big, supportive family.

Our work is well respected by colleagues across our organisation, with close working links between Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy and our national award-winning Nutrition Nurse service. We also work closely with our community counterparts, with a focus on seamless and quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

You will join a Band 5 rotational programme, providing the opportunity to support dietetic services in a wide range of clinical areas and gaining experience in working alongside Specialist and Advanced Dietitians and established multidisciplinary teams in areas including Respiratory, Stroke, Neurosciences, Oncology, Gastroenterology, community services and more.

We have an established student training programme supporting students from Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Chester and University of Central Lancashire.

You will gain experience and training in the support of Student Dietitians on their P2 and P3 placements with our team. You would join a team of nearly 40 experienced and forward-thinking Dietitians, Dietetic Support Workers and Administrative staff. We are committed to the continuing professional development of our team and will provide you with structured competency-based learning and development opportunities as part of your role, including opportunity for service development and clinical audit experience.

We also encourage peer-supervision with a graduate peer-support network and we are devoted to your wellbeing, with a number of Trust initiatives available to support staff.

We invite you to come and join our team for this exciting opportunity!

Working for our organisation

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This position involves working in a variety of clinical settings including inpatients, outpatients and you will get the opportunity to contribute to patient education programmes, such as cardiac rehabilitation. Excellent communication skills and a high standard of personal organisation and time management are essential

You will be based at the Royal Preston Hospital site within the Adult Dietetics Team and may also be required to work at Chor