Specialist Dietitian

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

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Specialist Dietitian to join a supportive team at the Alexandra Hospital. This role involves managing complex nutritional needs of surgical patients and offering expertise in nutrition support, while also providing supervision to junior staff and students. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and experience in a clinical setting, with flexible working options available.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive team environment

Commitment to personal development and CPD

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian recognized by the HCPC.
• Experience in surgical dietetics and parenteral nutrition is desirable.
• Attendance on relevant accredited courses.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients using evidence-based principles.
• Provide dietetic expertise for patients requiring parenteral nutrition.
• Supervise Band 5 colleagues and support practice placements.

Skills

Surgical Dietetics

Nutrition Support

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics

Registered Dietitian

Job description

Go back Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Specialist Dietitian

The closing date is 17 June 2025

This vacancy is for a specialist dietitian, 32 hours per week, flexible working considered, band 6 fixed term for 12 months to cover maternity leave.

Do you have a interest in working as a surgical dietitian? Would you like to develop your skills in complex nutrition and PN? Do you want to join a supportive dietetic team?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a specialist dietitian to join our team based at the Alexandra Hospital, providing cover at Worcestershire Royal Hospital when required. The post will be covering surgical patients and other patients with complex nutritional needs. You will also have the opportunity to provide a service to ICU at the Alexandra Hospital.

We are a forward thinking and proactive Dietetic department of 22 dietitians working within specialty teams.

We can offer you,

A friendly and supportive team of colleagues, excellent peer support, and regular clinical supervision.

The Department is approved for student placements A, B and C. All staff actively participate in student training.

We are committed to your personal development, well- being, and CPD.

As a department we have regular specialty and team meetings with a focus on quality improvement and maintaining CPD.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is a key member of the surgical MDT, working closely alongside other dietitians, pharmacists, nursing staff and surgeons.

Experience working in surgical dietetics and with parenteral nutrition is desirable. Enthusiasm and commitment are essential.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job responsibilities

• To manage a caseload of patients using specialist evidence-based and/or patient centred principles with a variety range of medical and surgical conditions.
• To provide specialist dietetic expertise for inpatients who require parenteral nutrition (PN). Providing advice on appropriate indication and safe initiation, access route and a patient centred plan to best meet patients macro and micronutrient requirements, working alongside the MDT. Monitoring protocol, efficacy and complications.
• To act as a specialist dietitian for patients on ICU/ critical care, working in-line with national guidelines to provide an evidence based service at the Alexandra Hospital alongside the critical care lead dietitian. Working in conjunction with the doctors and health care professionals to support service development.
• To provide specialist dietetic expertise to staff and nutritional advice to a range of patients on acute inpatient wards.
• To provide day to day support and supervision to Band 5 colleagues at the Alexandra Hospital working in conjunction with the team lead Dietitian.
• To provide support and supervision to students on practice placements.
• To maintain the service and prioritise the clinical caseload at the Alexandra hospital when the team lead is off site.

To work across site at Worcestershire Royal Hospital when demand requires.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent qualifications in Dietetics.
• Registered Dietitian recognised by the HCPC.
• Evidence of CPD
• Member of the British Dietetic Association.
• Attendance on clinical educators programme.
• Attendance on relevant accredited courses.
• Member of a specialist interest group

Experience

• Post registration clinical dietetic experience in NHS.
• Experienced in all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds , naso-gastric, PEGs, PEJs
• Experienced and skilled in TPN-fed patients.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team work.
• Experience of implementing evidence based practice for continuous service improvement.
• Experience of supervising students.
• Experience of teaching healthcare staff.
• Experience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds.
• Experience of nutrition risk scoring e.g. MUST.
• Experience of contributing to day to day co-ordination of activities in a department.
• Experience of appraising others.
• Worked on ICU

Other job requirements

• Ability to work flexibly to cover service needs.
• Able to travel to other hospital sites.

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.

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