Dietitian

Job summary

Overview of Responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Dietitian to join our friendly, forward thinking and supportive All Age Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service in Bury.

This is an excellent chance to develop your experience and skills working with both adults and children in a variety of settings including community clinics, care homes and patients own homes. You will be dealing with a variety of conditions including nutrition support,coeliac disease, allergies, gastroenterology conditions, weight management, diabetes, and more besides.

You will undertake the nutrition assessment of patients referred to the dietetic service using analytical skills and evidence based practice to calculate nutritional requirements and formulate an individual treatment plan, under the guidance of the specialist dietitian where required.

If you are ready for a new challenge, are organised, have excellent communication skills and use a patient centred approach to your practice then Bury community dietitians welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

This post involves providing dietetic care to a variety of conditions includingnutrition support,coeliac disease, allergies, gastroenterology conditions,weight management,diabetes,and more besides. Other main duties include:

• Decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands.
• To ensure the safe and timely transfer of patients on nutrition support between settings and liaise with appropriate internal and external agencies.
• Attend staff meetings and participate in discussions concerning the running of the nutrition and dietetic service.
• Participate in the achievement of dietetic department objectives

We are involved in the training of student dietitians and staff development is a high priority. You will be fully supported by lead specialists to enable you to establish yourself in the role. We are committed to work based education and training to improve clinical skills and we actively encourage CPD and audit.

You will be a key member of our small, friendly and innovative nutrition and dietetic team which consists of 6 dietitians, 2 dietetic assistants and admin support. The team covers a range of specialities including; oncology, neurology, enteral tube feeding, weight management, gastroenterology, allergies/intolerance and paediatrics.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our threecore values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.