Highly Specialised Adult Diabetes Dietitian

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Reading; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Highly Specialised Adult Diabetes Dietitian to join their dedicated team in Reading. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide specialist dietetic input to complex adult diabetes patients while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. You will engage in professional development, training, and quality improvement initiatives, ensuring a patient-centered approach at all times. If you are passionate about diabetes care and eager to make a difference in patients' lives, this position could be the perfect next step in your career. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to quality care and inclusivity.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days’ annual leave

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to wellbeing tools

Discounts at retailers and restaurants

Generous maternity and paternity leave

Free parking across Trust sites

Qualifications

• HCPC registration required to work as a qualified dietitian in the UK.
• Experience in applying dietetic processes and training dietetic students.

Responsibilities

• Assess and advise patients on nutritional status as part of the MDT.
• Support training of dietetic students and peers.

Skills

Patient-centered approach

Teamwork with MDT

Communication skills

Motivational skills

Counseling skills

Education

Recognised Nutrition and Dietetic Degree

Current State Registration

Postgraduate learning in diabetes

Tools

IT literacy

Job description

Highly Specialised Adult Diabetes Dietitian

Band 7

Main area: Dietetics Acute
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 20.25 hours per week
Job ref: 371-CHS908-A

Site: Dietetics Acute
Town: Reading
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/02/2025 23:59

Specialised Diabetes Dietitian - Adults (band 7) based at Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading (permanent).

As the successful candidate, you will provide specialist dietetic input into complex adult patients living with diabetes, working closely with your MDT colleagues including consultants, psychologists, and specialist nurses.

This role will provide you with excellent and supported professional and personal development. As part of the team, you will have opportunities to be involved with the training of dietetic students, other dietitians, and healthcare professionals. There are also opportunities to get involved with audit, research, and service development. We are committed to exploring advancing practice roles.

You would be joining a team of over 30 committed and welcoming dietitians, who work in a range of specialist areas at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. We are a forward-thinking department with a strong focus on a patient-centered service. We encourage service development and have an established quality improvement programme driving the service forward. Part-time (20.25 hours) hours are available for this role.
If this sounds like the next exciting step in your career, we would love to read your application.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with the consultants and specialist nurses to assess and advise patients. Our service uses a range of consultation settings to support our patients at all stages along their treatment pathway. Some areas of work include:

1. Being part of the MDT in assessing nutritional status
2. Advising and supporting patients in outpatient settings
3. Supporting the training of dietetic students
4. Supporting peers with specialist knowledge
5. Implementing Quality Improvement programme to lead service development

Working for our organisation

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment, and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption, and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

1. A passion and interest in the field of Diabetes
2. HCPC registration to work as a qualified dietitian in the UK
3. Patient-centered approach
4. To work as an integrated member of the MDT

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

• Recognised Nutrition and Dietetic Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
• Current State Registration
• Member of the British Dietetic Association
• Member of a relevant Specialist Interest Group
• Evidence of postgraduate learning in diabetes and/or experience equivalent to that gained at master's level

Continuous Professional Development

• Evidence of CPD
• Have completed or interested in Facilitating Learning during Practice Placements (Clinical Supervisory Skills) course.
• Have completed or interested in: Training on using diets in management of diabetes
• Have completed or interested in: Advanced Behaviour Change training

Previous Experience

• Experience in applying the dietetic process to include dietetic assessment, interpretation, individual care planning, motivation, monitoring, and evaluation of highly specialised dietetic treatments
• Experience of working with a diverse range of groups e.g. patients, general public, colleagues etc.
• Have planned, delivered, and evaluated training sessions
• An involvement in the training of student dietitians
• Experience of producing complex dietetic resources e.g. leaflets, diet sheets, posters etc.
• Involvement in the planning, adapting, diet coding, evaluation, and implementation of institutional menus.
• Experience of undertaking risk assessments
• At least 4 years experience as a practising Dietitian, 2 of which should be in the field of diabetes

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• IT Literate
• Knowledge of professional codes of conduct and professional guidelines.
• Knowledge of National and local guidance relevant to the speciality area and appreciation of how this impacts on dietetics
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information, verbally and written to patients/carers and a range of healthcare and other professionals.
• Skills in motivation and counselling.
• Ability to make suggestions and self-adjust working practice on the basis of internal clinical audit.
• Ability to use reflection as a tool for professional development

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to work flexible hours
• Able to easily and efficiently travel to clinical sites, patients’ homes, and training venues across the county, to provide a dietetic service
• Member of the relevant BDA specialist interest group.

These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role.

At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.

We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.

Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.