Clinical Lead Dietitian

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience of working with service users with mental health needs?

Due to a period of parental leave, we are able to offer this fixed term opportunity to a dietitian with leadership and management skills. You will be based in our Healthy Living Service, which covers both community and inpatients.

The successful candidate will lead an innovative team of dietitians who have active involvement in contributing to local and national guidance. There are strong links with local universities, community transformation partnership, public health and teaching hospitals which provide opportunities for training and development.

You will be responsible for supervising and supporting other professionals within the service with regards to dietetic provision. You will also represent dietetics within the local team Clinical Governance Council.

There will also be opportunities for independent working and team working. You will receive clinical supervision and opportunities for skill development.

An enthusiastic, positive outlook is essential, as are strong communication skills and the ability to develop rapport with service users and multiple professionals across the trust to uphold our values of caring, compassion and keeping things simple.

Main duties of the job

Provide supervision and leadership to dietitians

To lead the dietetic component of the healthy living service and provide a clinical service for complex referrals

To take a lead developmental role in dietetic practice

To be responsible for championing the importance of nutritional health to other health professionals

To promote evidenced based practice on all nutritional issues, with training and support of all clinical, professional and healthcare staff

Undertake complex dietetic assessments and make recommendations to guide future interventions

Provide dietetic interventions for complex cases

To contribute to the development and review of evidenced based dietetic resources

To promote the role of dietetics trust wide

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the team bankstaffingdepartment.lypft@nhs.net

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Becklin Centre

Leeds

LS9 7BE

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Becklin Centre

Leeds

LS9 7BE

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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