Specialist Dietitian (Home Enteral Feeding and Nutrition Support)

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Ashington; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Dietitian to join our Adult Clinical Dietetic Team, focusing on Home Enteral Feeding and Nutrition Support. You will develop specialist skills in HEF within both community and acute settings and contribute to the professional development of junior colleagues.

The role offers opportunities to lead on complex cases, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and deliver high-quality patient-centred care across our NHS services.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist dietetic assessment and intervention for patients requiring home enteral tube feeding and complex nutrition support.
• Manage a varied caseload across community and acute services.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective patient-centred care.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and governance activities.
• Support, supervise and develop junior members of the dietetic workforce and students.
• Provide expert advice and education to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Job description

Join our forward-thinking Nutrition and Dietetics Service and develop specialist expertise in Home Enteral Feeding and Nutrition Support. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your clinical skills across community and acute services while contributing to the supervision and development of junior colleagues within a supportive and dynamic team.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Adult Clinical Dietetic Team for a motivated and enthusiastic Dietitian to join our Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) and Nutrition Support Service.

This post offers the opportunity to develop specialist expertise in home enteral tube feeding and complex nutrition support while working as part of a highly supportive and experienced dietetic team. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of high-quality nutritional care across community and acute settings and play an important role in supporting and line managing junior members of the team.

This position would be ideal for a Dietitian with a strong interest in Home Enteral Feeding who is keen to develop advanced clinical skills and broaden their experience across a varied adult caseload.

Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

The Successful Candidate Will

• Provide specialist dietetic assessment and intervention for patients requiring home enteral tube feeding and complex nutrition support.
• Manage a varied caseload across community and acute services.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective patient-centred care.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and governance activities.
• Support, supervise and develop junior members of the dietetic workforce and students.
• Provide expert advice and education to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality, have a our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital which is the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.

Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

For further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jo Cooper Job title: Community Dietetic Team Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01670 564006