Older People and Surgical Specialist Dietitian

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our forward-thinking team of dietitians based at Salisbury District Hospital. You will be providing cover to a newly opened Older Persons ward in addition to our surgical wards including support alongside patients requiring parenteral nutrition managed by the Trust nutrition team.

This post would suit a confident and organised dietitian with the potential to provide excellent effective and patient focused dietetic care for this group as the new ward will be a blank canvas for development of the most appropriate service. Applications would be accepted from both experienced dietitians and band 5 candidates looking for a developmental role.

This Dietetic service takes student dietetic placements and this postholder would be expected to provide supervision for students and junior staff as required.

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities

Provision of specialist dietetic advice to patients and their carers to meet their changing nutritional/dietary needs during their inpatient stay.

Support to the NST as required in the assessment and monitoring of patients requiring parenteral nutrition.

Placement and management of enteral feeding tubes which may include NGTs, balloon gastrostomies and tube securement devices in line with Trust guidelines.

Provision of a clinically effective accessible and timely service to patients and their carers that is evidence based, patient sensitive and flexible.

Working on the development of referral criteria, appropriate nutritional screening tools, nutrition protocols and policy concerning dietetic input and nutritional approaches for patients within these specific multidisciplinary teams.

Attendance at regular MDT meetings, case conferences, regional specialist meetings and other events to promote the role of the Dietitian and influence practice where able.

Provision of appropriate nutritional teaching sessions for patients and carers and for other health care workers.

Actively participate in the departmental quality clinical governance activities to ensure practice is clinically effective and is evidence based.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk