Job summary
Are you an experienced Diabetes Dietitian who has a passion for providing excellent care for people with Diabetes? This post will utilise your diabetes dietetic skills but give you the oppourtunity to further specialise by working in some of our specialist MDT clinics.
Our service provides a specialist service in Diabetes nutrition across Acute and Community settings, to provide support across the lifespan from antenatal care, young adults through to older adults and from those newly diagnosed to those living with diabetes for over 50 years. We support many specialist clinics including, neuropathy, joint renal/diabetes, and have a well established insulin pump service and form part of regional islet cell transplant clinic. We are a DAFNE centre so group education is a core part of our role.
This post is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive and forward thinking large diabetes multidisciplinary team. You will be led by the Clinical Specialist Diabetes Dietitian across Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospital sites . You will work closely with 3 other Band 7 Specialist Diabetes Dietitians in your team and also be supported by our Band 6 dietitian and band 4 dietetic assistant post. You will part of an innovative Diabetes multidisciplinary team who highly value the dietetic role within the team. Continuous professional development is encouraged with the opportunity to be involved with research, audit and presenting at conferences
Main duties of the job
You will act as a source of expertise in diabetes specialist dietetic care for patients, their families, medical staff, other health care professionals.
You will have an integral role within our enthusiastic multidisciplinary team. Provision of training and education will be a key part of the role across Acute setting. You will provide structured DAFNE and VICTOR education for people with diabetes - training can be provided.
You will have a varied caseload of patients which will include undertaking comprehensive assessments and formulating individualised patient management plans.
You will also assess and educate individual patients in self-management principles including carbohydrate counting and provide effective CGM and diabetes data management platform analysis.
Excellent communication, clinical skills and the ability to be adaptable as well as work autonomously with other members of the team will be essential.
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.
Desirable
- Training in management/leadership.
- Training in specialist area.
- Evidence of further postgraduate study in
- specialist area.
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 and confidence in working autonomously.
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of supporting students and more junior therapy staff
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Professional approach
- Computer literacy
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. it is essential to possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points. (Off site travel is required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc)
Desirable
- Member of the BDA.
- Member of BDA specialist interest group.
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.
Desirable
- Training in management/leadership.
- Training in specialist area.
- Evidence of further postgraduate study in
- specialist area.
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 and confidence in working autonomously.
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of supporting students and more junior therapy staff
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Professional approach
- Computer literacy
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. it is essential to possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points. (Off site travel is required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc)
Desirable
- Member of the BDA.
- Member of BDA specialist interest group.
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).
