Senior Dietitian - Diabetes & Cardiac Rehabilitation
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Job summary
Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a 0.8 WTE Senior Dietitian specialising in diabetes and cardiovascular rehabilitation.
This exciting role will be responsible for delivering DESMOND Type 2 diabetes structured education (training can be provided) and working within the cardiac rehabilitation MDT running specialist clinics and patient education sessions, alongside running gestational diabetes clinics/patient webinars and general outpatient clinics.
This is a great opportunity to develop your skills, knowledge and experience within diabetes and cardiovascular disease dietetics. You will need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner working in the outpatient/education setting however you will have plenty of support from the main dietetic department based in Frimley Park Hospital. This job will require some travel between sites and occasional evening working.
Our department is a well-established team with dietitians working within 12 specialities. Our department values each individual and provides a supportive team environment by promoting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision. We pride ourselves on encouraging continued professional development through internal and external opportunities for learning, including leadership and quality improvement skills.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a professional dietetic service in a variety of outpatient settings
- To act as a dietetic resource for the speciality and associated clinical groups
- To provide assessment, treatment and management of patients within a speciality, whom may have complex and/or chronic presentation, and maintain associated records
- To provide complex outpatient clinics as required
- To contribute to the service development, efficiency and safety in the dietetic department
- To contribute to policy and policy changes
- To undertake evidence-based projects and to develop audit and research in this area
- To support supervision of student dietitians and junior colleagues
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong EDI culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contribute to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population.
Details
Date posted
22 January 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,162 to £44,629 a year Per annum (pro-rata) inc. HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
151-CG-168
Job locations
Frimley Park Hospital
Portsmouth Road
Frimley
GU16 7UJ
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Frimley Park Hospital
Portsmouth Road
Frimley
GU16 7UJ
Employer's website
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