Team Lead Dietitian - Frailty and Acute Medicine

NHS; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Gillingham is seeking a Team Lead Dietitian for Frailty and Acute Medicine. This role involves advanced dietetic care, team management, and the development of nutritional care plans. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, relevant registrations, and experience in an acute setting. The position offers a salary between £47,810 and £54,710 per annum, reflecting the importance of nutrition in patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Career development options

Multicultural work environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrates knowledge of working in a busy acute setting.
• Understanding of clinical governance and relevant national guidelines.
• Experience of managing patients within an MDT setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced level dietetic care to patients in various settings.
• Develop dietetic service with education sessions and ward presence.
• Formulate individualized treatment plans using expert clinical reasoning.

Skills

Nutritional assessment

Clinical reasoning skills

Team management

Education

Diploma/degree in Nutrition and Dietetics

Current Health Professions Council registration

Member of British Dietetic Association

Job description

Team Lead Dietitian - Frailty and Acute Medicine

Team LeadDietitian - Frailty and Acute Medicine Dietitian

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 7

We are recruiting for a team lead frailty and acute medicine dietitian to cover maternity leave for 1 year. The candidate must share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

This unique role will involve establishing a nutritional care plan for our patients as early as possible, providing enhanced level knowledge and facilitating pathways. We encourage pioneering ways of working and support quality improvement plans that make a significant impact on the care and experience of these patients and our team. This is an exciting time to join Medway NHS Foundation Trust during a period of transformation and improving clinical services, where the Trust is investing in nutrition as a priority. Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust. We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process. To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B - Bold

E - Every person counts

S - Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Job responsibilities

As an autonomous practitioner, to provide advanced level dietetic care to an agreed caseload of patients focusing on leading a team covering early assessment and emergency department areas, acute medical, frailty and care of elderly wards and providing enhanced level knowledge and opinion, across a variety of acute specialities when required.

To take an active role in developing the dietetic service within this area to raise awareness on the importance of early nutrition intervention with education sessions, ward presence, participation in ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings to provide a coordinated, evidence based approach to patient care and facilitate pathways with the support of the Clinical Lead Dietitian and MDT

To work effectively as part of an Acute Dietetic Team undertaking advanced assessment of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using expert clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient caseload / workload

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Diploma/degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
• Current Health Professions Council registration
• Member of British Dietetic Association, ideally including relevant specialist group

Knowledge

• Competency in nutritional assessment of patients in varied clinical specialities in a range of population groups
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the issues involved with working in a busy acute setting
• Understanding of national and professional issues
• Understanding of clinical governance and relevant national guidelines

Experience

• Knowledge and application of artificial nutrition - both eneteral and parenteral nutrition are essential
• Experience of supervising Dietetic students
• Experience of responding to demand / prioritising work / managing a caseload in fast moving acute environment
• Involvement of developing department and service protocols
• Experience of managing patients within an MDT setting

Values Based Question

• How do you demonstrate respect and dignity?

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum/pro rata