Kidney Specialist Dietitian

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking a Specialist Kidney Dietitian to manage dietetic care for renal patients in a busy environment. Responsibilities include overseeing dietetic services for dialysis units and leading a team of nutrition professionals. The ideal candidate will have experience in renal dietetics and HCPC registration. This full-time position offers a salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 annually with the opportunity for clinical supervision and teaching responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Recent post grad Dietetic experience in a Renal specialty for minimum of 6 months.
• Demonstrable evidence of clinical expertise in managing complex Kidney patients.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Manage dietetic care for consultant-led renal clinics.
• Provide dietetic cover to a haemodialysis satellite unit.
• Supervise band 5 Rotational Dietitians and students.

Skills

IT skills

Ability to interpret complex clinical conditions

Clinically competent to give specialist kidney treatment advice

Workload management skills

Advanced written and verbal skills

Education

HCPC registration

Trained/worked in the NHS

Clinical Supervision

Masters modules

Job description

Due to a retirement, we are looking for a new band 6 Specialist Kidney Dietitian.

This is 37.5 hours post.

The post holder would be expected to manage the dietetic care for consultant led renal clinics and to provide dietetic cover to a haemodialysis satellite unit, dialysing over 100 patients per week. and therefore experience working on a dialysis unit is essential

Main duties of the job

Clinically the post holder would be expected to manage a caseload of patients with complex kidney needs - both on the dialysis unit and as outpatients as well as attending MDT treatment discussion meetings.

The post holder would be expected to clinically supervise band 5 Rotational Dietitians and students.

They would also be expected to support the Clinical Lead Dietitian to continually develop and evolve the Renal Dietetic team providing guidance, training and policies asrequired. They would also be expected to support the wider Dietetic team.

About us

The successful post holder will be part of the Renal Dietetic team. The team consists of Band 7 Clinical Lead Dietitian, band 6 Specialist Dietitian and Band 5 rotational Dietitians link with the team. The team is supported by clinical support workers.

The post holder would be primarily based at Blackburn Dialysis unit but would be expected to work across all East Lancashire Dietetic localities

TheRenalDietetic team work closely with their colleaguesat Prestonand will be an integral part of the MDTon the dialysis units

The Renal team is a part of the wider Dietetic Department. The Department has over 70 Staff of which 45 are Dietitians and is well supported with Dietetic Assistants, Assistant Practitioners and admin staff. The department uses the electronic patient record system EMIS for outpatients and Cerner for inpatients. The Renal Dietitians also have access to pathology and record systems from the Renal Hub at Preston

Job responsibilities

To provide cover to 4-5 renalmultidisciplinaryconsultant led clinicsper weekincluding a monthly advanced kidney care clinicforstage5patients.

To provide dietetic cover tohaemodialysis satellite unit,dialysing over 100 patients per weekandattendingmonthly multidisciplinary meetings per month atthecentre.

To provide advice tocolleagues onthemanagement ofpatients at ELHT who have kidneydisease

The department offers student training toA,Band C placements and Dietitian Apprenticeships therefore the post holder will be expected to be involved in clinical teaching and assessment of students on their placement so thereforepreviousstudent training experience is desirable.

East Lancashire is a teaching hospital so the post holder would also be expected to contribute to Medical and other health care professional training as well.

East Lancashire has good transport links to Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and beyond and we are close to the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oHCPC registration
• oTrained/worked in the NHS
• oClinical Supervision
• oCPD
• ooMasters modules

Experience

• oRecent post grad Dietetic experience in a Renal specialty area for a minimum of 6 months
• oDemonstrable evidence of clinical expertise in managing complex Kidney patients
• Recent post grad experience on Dialysis Unit
• oExperience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team and wider system partners
• oExperience of undergraduate student and/or support staff supervision
• oContribution to clinical education of junior staff, students and assistants
• oExperience of clinical guidance, pathway and protocol development and implementation
• oCommittee membership

Skills and Apptitude

• oIT skills (competent in the use of Microsoft office applications)
• oAbility to interpret complex clinical conditions including biochemistry
• oClinically competent to give specialist kidney treatment advice to patients and their support network
• oAbility to produce Departmental and Trust guidelines/policies

Personal Qualities

• workload management skills including prioritisation and delegation
• oAdvanced knowledge of a variety of assessment and clinical interventions skills relevant to service area
• oAdvanced written and verbal skills to optimise patient management

Special requirements

• oHighly developed ability to work effectively alone as well as part of a multidisciplinary team
• oAble to work in a pressurised, unpredictable environment, with a proven ability to multi-task and support others
• oListen to views and opinions of others, demonstrate compassion, kindness and self-awareness
• oAble to deal with challenging behaviour of patients, carers and/or families
• oAccess to private vehicle to be able to travel across ELHT sites, including to patient's usual place of residence, where required oAbility to travel between sites in a timely manner as required in accordance with the agreed job plan

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata