Senior Dietitian - Community *£2,000 Incentive*

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS organization as a Dietitian, where you'll deliver high-quality evidence-based care across diverse community settings. Work closely with patients and multidisciplinary teams, manage complex cases, and enjoy extensive training opportunities and a supportive work environment. Your contribution will enhance nutritional health in East Suffolk and North Essex.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave on commencement

NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and committed Dietitian.
• Excellent team working skills with both Dietetics colleagues and MDT.
• Ability to manage a complex caseload.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality dietetic service to the community.
• Manage caseload of nutritionally vulnerable patients.
• Supervise staff including assistant practitioners.

Skills

Team working

Independent working

Job description

This post attracts a recruitment incentive of £2,000 pro rata (conditions apply)

We are looking for self-motivated, committed Dietitian to provide a quality dietetic service to the Ipswich and East Suffolk population. You will be a key player within the community dietetic team. You will manage a caseload of nutritionally vulnerable patients in the community settings across Ipswich and East Suffolk including but not limited to, home enteral tube feed patients, home visits, outpatient clinics in both the acute and community settings and community hospitals. You will be working closely with assistant practitioners to deliver this service.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering a quality, evidence-based service, who relishes working in a busy setting and are a strong team player. We are seeking someone with excellent team working skills with both Dietetics colleagues and the wider MDT, as well as an ability to work independently and flexibly.

You will benefit from being part of an integrated inpatient (Ipswich Hospital), outpatient and community service that incorporates a range of clinical specialisms including renal, paediatrics and oncology. This affords many opportunities to develop and learn new skills, with a commitment from the service to support your continuing professional development.

q To be a lead dietitian responsible for the delivery of a high quality, evidence-based dietetic care to a complex case load of patients in a variety of care settings in the community e.g. Patients’ homes, community hospitals, care homes and outpatient clinics.

q To manage a caseload of home enteral tube feed patients

q To manage a caseload of home visit patients in a variety of settings

q To supervise staff including band 4 assistant practitioners.

q To promote the MUST and Food First projects, as well as, support the promotion of cost effective prescribing of oral nutritional supplements.

q Provide education and training for professional colleagues in all aspects of nutrition across East Suffolk, health and social care agencies.

q To contribute to the dietetic service providing a source of expertise to patients, carers, medical practitioners, allied health professionals, and social care professionals as part of the multidisciplinary team.

q To provide specialist input into the planning development and evaluation of dietetic services within community holding responsibility for defined projects.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Catherine Dyson Job title: Team Leader for Community Dietetics Team Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01473 704000