Job summary
We have created a new and unique opportunity for a dietitian with a passion for education and continued professional development to focus on delivery of these aspects of leadership across our medical and surgical dietetic teams. Using your coaching and leadership skills this role will focus on nurture and upskilling the dietetic team, lead on preceptorship and grow our training offer to the wider multiprofessional team to drive up standards of patient care in nutrition and hydration.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the specialist medicine dietetic team which covers medical specialties including infectious diseases, for which Heartlands is a regional centre, respiratory and cardiology. As well as the opportunity to showcase your clinical dietetic skills with some clinical caseload, this post offers you a fantastic opportunity to assist in the co-ordination of staff development and training programs helping to support the delivery of evidence based dietetic intervention.
There will be excellent support from the wider dietetic team to support you in reaching your goals. There will be many opportunities for professional development, both clinically and in relation to leadership. You will be passionate about improving care, quality and the overall patient and staff experience, developing the clinical and leadership skills of the team to maximise the potential of the whole team and to deliver the best outcomes to the people who access our services.
Main duties of the job
As lead for education in the dietetic team you will act as a source of expertise in training and continuing professional development across the team and for the wider department.
This a dynamic team which includes the majority of our new graduates, so leadership and delivery of an excellent preceptorship offer will be a vital part of the role, ensuring a positive and supportive start to a career in dietetics. You will lead on clinical supervision of dietitians and dietetic assistants, providing coaching, shadowing and mentoring sessions in direct patient consultations, both multiprofessional and family meetings and providing guidance on the team's own quality improvement projects.
You should be able to work as a specialist, autonomous practitioner within the field for specialist medicine with consideration of chronic health conditions. Multidisciplinary team working will be essential and you will have a key role in promoting nutrition and raising the profile of dietetics across the Trust. This will include the opportunity to redesign our patient and staff education sessions utilising clinical auditing, supporting undergraduate placements and evaluating our current service delivery to improve nutritional outcomes for our patients.
We are committed to flexible working and supporting your work life balance. We have a strong focus on wellbeing and hold regular events to support teambuilding and wellbeing.
If you would like to discuss further or arrange a visit, please contact us.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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
- Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.
- A levels or equivalent qualification.
- Degree in dietetics or equivalent.
- Current Registration with HCPC.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstration of clinical experience enabling post holder to manage a complex caseload of patients
- Demonstration of significant experience in managing/leading others
- Experience of training other staff / student dietitians.
- Previous experience of conducting audits and/or research
- Good clinical knowledge of specialist area of team to manage.
- 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.
- Broad dietetic knowledge of relevant specialism.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Awareness and commitment to staff CPD.
- Awareness and commitment to appraisal system.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication skills -- written, verbal, one to one basis and group settings.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent presentation skills and good teaching skills. Evidence of presentations to groups.
- Excellent time management.
- Work in line with HCPC and BDA professional standards and code of conduct.
- Leadership skills showing an awareness of new developments and strategies within relevant specialism.
- Ability and innovative approach to develop services based on evidence based practice.
- Excellent team player when working as part of a team.
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Professional approach
- Computer literacy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.
- A levels or equivalent qualification.
- Degree in dietetics or equivalent.
- Current Registration with HCPC.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstration of clinical experience enabling post holder to manage a complex caseload of patients
- Demonstration of significant experience in managing/leading others
- Experience of training other staff / student dietitians.
- Previous experience of conducting audits and/or research
- Good clinical knowledge of specialist area of team to manage.
- 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.
- Broad dietetic knowledge of relevant specialism.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Awareness and commitment to staff CPD.
- Awareness and commitment to appraisal system.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Excellent communication skills -- written, verbal, one to one basis and group settings.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent presentation skills and good teaching skills. Evidence of presentations to groups.
- Excellent time management.
- Work in line with HCPC and BDA professional standards and code of conduct.
- Leadership skills showing an awareness of new developments and strategies within relevant specialism.
- Ability and innovative approach to develop services based on evidence based practice.
- Excellent team player when working as part of a team.
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Professional approach
- Computer literacy.
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).
