Specialist Dietitian – Spinal Injuries

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Specialist Dietitian for its Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service in High Wycombe. The role is vital in supporting patient care at home, preventing hospital admissions, and enhancing recovery through professional assessment and care planning. The ideal candidate will be a registered healthcare professional dedicated to excellence and clinical development.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

NHS benefits including annual leave and pension

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with a degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary team environments.
• In-depth experience in relevant clinical areas for at least 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage and comprehensive specialist assessments for patients.
• Plan and manage patient care programmes.
• Allocate workloads within the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care team.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Care planning

Communication skills

Motivating staff

IT skills

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy

Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC

Relevant postgraduate clinical training

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Specialist Dietitian – Spinal Injuries, High Wycombe

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Client:

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Location:

High Wycombe, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

5

Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job overview

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Wycombe team.

Watch our RRIC team talk about their roles – and why you should join them:

• Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
• Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You’ll also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
• Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
• Who are we? We’re part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
• Who are you? If you’re committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of our North Team (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) / South Team (including Amersham, Wycombe, Marlow and Chalfont St Peter)– choose #MissionRRIC today.

Main duties of the job

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
• Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys
• Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team
• Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
• Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
  Support the development of clinical pathways

Working for our organisation

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Person specification

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist Occupational Therapist
• Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy
• Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
• Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy
• Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
• In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team
• Experience participating in research or audit project.
• Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
• Experience of electronic clinical systems.
• Experience of working with single assessment process.
• Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
• Ability to motivate staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex cases.
• Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
• Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
• Report writing skills.
• IT Skills.
• Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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