Senior Dietitian - Nutrition Support Community

NHS; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Wolverhampton is seeking an experienced Registered Dietitian to join their dynamic community team. This role involves working across various healthcare settings to assess and treat nutrition-related issues, promoting nutritional management, and providing training to colleagues. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in nutrition support and enteral feeding, with a commitment to professional development.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Flexible working arrangements

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Experience in a range of clinical specialties within the NHS.
• Experience delivering nutritional interventions in care homes and/or rehab.

Responsibilities

• Assess diagnose and treat nutrition related problems in various settings.
• Devise and monitor enteral feeding regimens.
• Provide training to community colleagues on nutrition support.

Skills

Experience in nutrition support and enteral feeding

Strong communication skills

Ability to travel efficiently between sites

Education

Clinical Educators Course

PENG Clinical Update

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Registered Dietitian to join our team of 30 clinical staff and an excellent support team providing the Dietetics Service to Wolverhampton and Cannock.

This vacancy is in our community team, and the successful candidate will work across Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Hospital, predominantly in the field of nutrition support.

We are a friendly, supportive and dynamic team . We take students on placement from BCU and Coventry and value CPD, development and excellence in practice.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work in inpatient rehabilitation, outpatients and community settings to deliver a high quality dietetics service for patients requiring nutrition support.

About us

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 achievednumerous 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.

Job responsibilities

Assess diagnose and treat nutrition related problems in a variety of settings (eg rehab hospitals, patient homes, care homes, outpatients).

Devise and monitor enteral feeding regimens.

Work with outpatients & care homes promoting Food First as nutritional management.

Work closely with the wider MDT to optimise patient care and outcome.

Provide training to community colleagues on nutrition support and enteral feeding.

Contribute to the training & development of students on clinical placement, apprentice dietitians and junior colleagues.

Undertake audit and projects to promote service quality and development.

Person Specification

Qualifications & registration

• Clinical Educators Course
• PENG Clinical Update

Experience and learning

• Experience in nutrition nutrition support and enteral feeding
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Experience in a range of clinical specialties within the NHS

Communication Skills

Other

• Ability to travel efficiently between community sites

Experience and learning

• Experience delivering nutritional interventions in care homes and/or rehab

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.