Job summary
Are you an experienced Dietitian, looking for a permanent or temporary opportunity to join a busy and supportive team working in Solihull community?
We seek two enthusiastic, self-motivated Dietitians with experience of nutrition support and home enteral feeding for vacancies in our team. We have one new role for a permanent 0.8wte Band 6 Dietitian and one temporary maternity cover role, also for a 0.8wte Band 6 Dietitian.
The post holders will work in a small community nutrition support team to support the safe and effective management of patients requiring nutritional support and tube feeding across Solihull community.
When joining our team, you will also be joining the wider team of Community Therapy Services and the Trust-wide team of Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants who provide a valued service across acute and community sites within this large teaching Trust.
We offer a range of training and development opportunities and the support of a large team of senior and specialist Dietitians and Community Therapists. We also retain close links with our acute colleagues, particularly those delivering nutritional support in the acute settings.
Main duties of the job
Our clinical work is varied and interesting, covering a wide range of conditions and settings. We see patients in their own homes, care homes, residential homes, day centres, respite centres, supported living homes, clinics and schools so travel across the borough is required.
Both roles will work closely with General Practice, Community Health Professionals and other key stakeholders to promote malnutrition screening, malnutrition treatment and a 'food first' approach to nutrition support.
This includes reviewing the use of prescribable products, promoting appropriate prescribing and supporting community health professionals in all aspects of nutrition support. The postholders would also have opportunities to develop and deliver face-to-face and online training sessions on malnutrition and home enteral feeding.
As you can see from the variety within this role you will need a flexible approach to managing changing work priorities, excellent team working and communication skills and effective organisational and time management strategies.
If you would like to discuss this post, please contact Lisa Alexander, Team Lead Dietitian on 0121 746 4477 or email lisa.alexander@uhb.nhs.uk, or Louise Dalby, Clinical Team Lead, Solihull Community Therapies on 0121 424 4073 or louise.dalby@uhb.nhs.uk
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Degree qualification in Nutrition & Dietetics (BSc, PG diploma or MSc)
- *Registration as Dietitian with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- *Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- *Member of British Dietetic Association (BDA)
- *Member of relevant specialist interest groups (BDA or other)
Experience
Essential
- *Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality,
- *Demonstration of clinical experience of working with patients within speciality,
- *Ability to work as part of multidisciplinary team and dietetic team,
- *Understanding of audit, clinical effectiveness and its importance in the provision of a quality service,
- *Awareness of local needs, eg; ethnic minority and low income groups,
- *Insight into own CPD needs and appropriate strategies for addressing them.
Desirable
- *Broad clinical knowledge of speciality.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Reliable,
- *Punctual,
- *Professional approach,
- *Appropriately assertive,
- *Demonstrates ability to be a good team member, leading where appropriate,
- *Able to judge limits of skills/competence and recognise professional boundaries where appropriate,
- *Manage busy workload across numerous community sites,
- *Computer literacy,
- *Able to contribute to 7 day and extended hours service provision as appropriate,
- *Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. where off site travel is, required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc,
- *To possess a full car driving licence and have an appropriate vehicle to available to use for work purposes,
- *Enthusiasm and motivation to work at UHB,
- *Demonstrates the Trust values of Kind, Connected & Bold.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Degree qualification in Nutrition & Dietetics (BSc, PG diploma or MSc)
- *Registration as Dietitian with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- *Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- *Member of British Dietetic Association (BDA)
- *Member of relevant specialist interest groups (BDA or other)
Experience
Essential
- *Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality,
- *Demonstration of clinical experience of working with patients within speciality,
- *Ability to work as part of multidisciplinary team and dietetic team,
- *Understanding of audit, clinical effectiveness and its importance in the provision of a quality service,
- *Awareness of local needs, eg; ethnic minority and low income groups,
- *Insight into own CPD needs and appropriate strategies for addressing them.
Desirable
- *Broad clinical knowledge of speciality.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Reliable,
- *Punctual,
- *Professional approach,
- *Appropriately assertive,
- *Demonstrates ability to be a good team member, leading where appropriate,
- *Able to judge limits of skills/competence and recognise professional boundaries where appropriate,
- *Manage busy workload across numerous community sites,
- *Computer literacy,
- *Able to contribute to 7 day and extended hours service provision as appropriate,
- *Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. where off site travel is, required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc,
- *To possess a full car driving licence and have an appropriate vehicle to available to use for work purposes,
- *Enthusiasm and motivation to work at UHB,
- *Demonstrates the Trust values of Kind, Connected & Bold.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
