Band 8a Clinical Dietetic Manager

Job summary

An exciting opportunity is available to join Leicester Nutrition and Dietetic Service (Community) leadership team as a Clinical Dietetic Manager for Primary Care and Mental Health.

We are looking for a leader with proven strategic and operational management, service development and clinical leadership skills to drive forward the future delivery of our services.

This post will be a job share with an existing Clinical Dietetic Manager.

Leicester Nutrition and Dietetic Service (Community) has a team of approximately 90 staff working in primary care, mental health, public health and home enteral nutrition and is made up of dietitians, community nutritionists, dietetic support workers and support team staff covering the population of LLR.

This role will have specific leadership and management responsibilities for our Primary Care and Mental Health team covering outpatients and community hospital inpatients and our newly developed dietetics prescribing team.

For further information or an informal chat and please contact:- Telephone Rachel Barton or Aideen McKenna on 0116 222 7170 Email: Rachel.Barton7@nhs.net or Aideen.Mckenna@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

You will be a self motivated team player, passionate about quality improvement and service development and have excellent communication skills.

You will represent LNDS on Trust groups, committees and county wide meetings including meeting with our existing and prospective commissioners across Local Authorities and the Health and Social care community.

Ability to drive and access to your own transport during working hours is essential.

The service is committed to CPD and personal development and we have good clinical supervision models and in-house CPD in place to support you.

The service is involved in the pre-registration placements for student dietitians undertaking A, B and C placements which this post holder will have a lead role in.

Further details about Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetic Service can be found by visiting our website: www.lnds.nhs.uk

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

OSL House,East Link

Meridian Business Park

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE19 1XU

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

OSL House,East Link

Meridian Business Park

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE19 1XU

Employer's website

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

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