Graduate Dietitian

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Registered Dietitian, offering a rotational post that provides extensive experience in various dietetic specializations. You'll work with diverse patient populations and contribute to their care while developing your skills in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Responsible for planning and implementing dietetic care for patients.
• Participating in training of student dietitians and other health care professionals.

Responsibilities

• Work in inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Deliver group education to patients and community groups.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Graduate Dietitian

Job description

This is a fabulous opportunity to start or further your career as a Registered Dietitian. This rotational post will provide you with excellent experience in general dietetics, working with a variety of patients in an inpatient and outpatient setting. Rotations include opportunities to work along specialist colleagues in renal, general medicine, diabetes, nutrition support, community & paediatrics. We provide a supportive environment for new graduates to develop skills, knowledge and confidence through our AHP preceptorship programme.

Our Nutrition & Dietetic Service has excellent relationships with our MDT colleagues and our well respected team of 40 provide a service to the ethnically diverse populations of Wolverhampton & Cannock. We provide clinical placements for dietetics students throughout the year. The Trust also has a multi-disciplinary preceptorship programme to support your development as a new Graduate Dietitian.

You will be responsible for planning and implementing dietetic care for patients in ward, clinic and community environments.

You will also have an educational role, participating in training of student dietitians and other health care professionals as well as delivering group education to patients and to community groups.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kathryn Robinson Job title: Head of Nutrition & Dietetics Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01902 695335

Please do call or email if you would like to find out more about this opportunity.