Job summary
Are you a newly qualified dietitian or an existing band 5 dietitian with an interest in nutritional support?
We have a vacancy for a Band 5 rotational dietitian to join our experienced and friendly team of dietitians and dietetic support staff. This role offers the opportunity to gain experience in all areas of nutrition support including short and long term enteral feeding, supporting patients pre and post-surgery and those with long-term respiratory support needs. You will have your own caseload the majority of which will be inpatient facing.
As part of your role, you will contribute to audits, service development and publication of articles and abstracts to build your CPD portfolio. We have access to a range of CPD opportunities both internally and external nutrition related conferences such as BAPEN.
We have an established student training programme in which you will be involved.
Royal Papworth Hospital prioritises staff wellbeing and benefits of working here include free tea and coffee, subsidised restaurant and travel, and a climate-controlled building.
This is a permanent, full time 37.5 hours per week role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide comprehensive dietetic service to Royal Papworth Hospital Trust as part of the Nutrition and Dietetic team. You will have responsibility for providing prehab and rehab nutritional support to a selection of wards as part of a rotation, that could include cardiac and thoracic surgical wards, cardiology wards, respiratory wards and outpatients and day-case settings. You will be involved in delivering relevant nutrition education sessions to staff as required.
You will provide support to other areas of the dietetic service during absence of colleagues such as transplant, respiratory support and sleep centre and cystic fibrosis after additional training and achievement of dietetic competencies in these areas.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Date posted
03 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
175-2425-2-PS904
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
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