Dietitian

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Band 6 Dietitian to join the Specialist Adult Eating Disorder Service in Stoke-on-Trent. The role involves providing specialized dietetic assessments and developing individualized treatment plans for patients. Candidates should have expertise in therapeutic interventions and be able to manage own and junior staff caseloads effectively. This is a full-time position with a commitment to diversity and inclusion within the workforce.

Benefits

Wellness opportunities

Flexible working

Sustainability initiatives

Qualifications

• Expertise in dietetic assessment and therapeutic interventions for Adult Eating Disorders.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage caseloads effectively.
• Strong clinical reasoning skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist dietetic assessments to determine diagnoses.
• Develop treatment plans and adapt them as needed.
• Organize and plan own work and junior staff caseloads.

Job description

Band 6 Dietitian – Specialist Adult Eating Disorder Service

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare are looking to recruit a Band 6 Dietitian to work in the Specialist Adult Eating Disorder Service.

37.5 hours per week – full time.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist dietetic assessment of patients with diverse clinical presentation and pathology to determine a clinical diagnosis and provide treatment via therapeutic interventions as indicated and develop effective treatment plans.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner to perform a specialist dietetic assessment of patients with diverse presentations.
• Use clinical reasoning to provide a diagnosis and develop, deliver and adapt individualised dietetic treatment programmes.
• Be responsible for organising and planning own and junior member of staff's caseloads and to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations or changes arise and to provide specialist dietetic reports as requested.

Our Values

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.