Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team working as a Dietitian within Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! This position is a fixed term contract until November 2026.
This post will enable the successful candidate to consolidate and advance their skills and knowledge in a range of clinical areas. You will be part of the inpatient team based in the acute hospital at King Mill Hospital and also cover the Community Hospitals in Mansfield and Newark. You will have your own caseload, which will be mostly in-patients with some opportunities to support outpatient clinics.
Applicants need to be registered dietitians, with excellent communication skills and a flexible approach. We have close links with the University of Nottingham and Sheffield University and take student dietitians for placements.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, supported by team leader/clinical lead and multi-professional team
- Able to travel to areas within and beyond the trust if required
- Flexibility to meet the demands of the service
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Dietitian
- Registered with the Health Professions Council.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Member of BDA
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Able to work as part of a team and build relationships with patients/carers, and other staff
- Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations, handle sensitive and confidential information and overcome barriers to understanding
- Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions about dietetic care
- Able to make decisions within own work role working within departmental and professional guidelines and under the direction of senior dietitians and clinical team leader.
- Able to carry out anthropometric measurements accurately and use relevant equipment
- Able to use a computer, including relevant computer programmes
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people, including dietetic clinical placements and the general public
Desirable
- Experience of working as a registered dietitian
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, supported by team leader/clinical lead and multi-professional team
- Able to travel to areas within and beyond the trust if required
- Flexibility to meet the demands of the service
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Dietitian
- Registered with the Health Professions Council.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Member of BDA
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Able to work as part of a team and build relationships with patients/carers, and other staff
- Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations, handle sensitive and confidential information and overcome barriers to understanding
- Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions about dietetic care
- Able to make decisions within own work role working within departmental and professional guidelines and under the direction of senior dietitians and clinical team leader.
- Able to carry out anthropometric measurements accurately and use relevant equipment
- Able to use a computer, including relevant computer programmes
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people, including dietetic clinical placements and the general public
Desirable
- Experience of working as a registered dietitian
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
