Job summary
Would you like the opportunity to join our Acute Team? Are you looking for an opportunity to broaden your experience in complex nutritional support and have previous acute inpatient experience? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join a very friendly, supportive and forward-looking team of Acute Team Dietitians based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
The role will provide inpatient clinical dietetic care to complex, high priority patients on the acute wards with the ability to develop in depth experience in general surgery and respiratory care.
The role would suit a self-motivated enthusiastic dietitian who is keen to advance their career. We are looking for 1 full time dietitian but are happy to explore a job share/part time.
Main duties of the job
You will provide complex dietetic care to high priority acute inpatients focussing your time when caseload allows in general surgery and respiratory care.
You will offer support and supervision to the band 5 dietitians and help to develop their knowledge in acute nutritional support.
You will aim to audit and review your practise and form good relationships with multi-disciplinary teams to advance practise.
About us
We are a large friendly department spread across 2 sites, Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) & Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH). We also have a Home Enteral Feeding Team which is based locally in Gloucester.
Our department consists of many specialities. Our renal and paediatric dietitians are based in GRH, whilst our oncology dietitians are based in CGH. We also have separate acute teams on each site and specialist teams such as the nutrition support team, gastroenterology and diabetes dividing their time between both sites. As well as dietitians, our teams include dietetic support workers, dietetic assistants and nurses.
We are committed to continual professional development and support audit and quality improvement projects.
Gloucestershire is a great area of the country to live in, with many areas of outstanding natural beauty, as well as excellent travel networks to the rest of the country.
Working within a large district general hospital gives the opportunity to work with complex patients and gain new and varied experience in acute dietetics.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be directly responsible to the NST Specialist Dietitian and The Lead Critical Care Dietitian, who are joint leads for the Acute dietetic team in Gloucester Royal Hospital. You will work alongside the other members of the acute dietetic team.
You will be working to plan, implement and monitor high quality nutritional care to patients with complex medical and surgical needs in an inpatient setting.
For further details please contact Rebecca Draper/ Robert Cronin Team Leads Acute Services or June Beharry Lead Dietitian GRH 422 5506
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be directly responsible to the NST Specialist Dietitian and The Lead Critical Care Dietitian, who are joint leads for the Acute dietetic team in Gloucester Royal Hospital. You will work alongside the other members of the acute dietetic team.
You will be working to plan, implement and monitor high quality nutritional care to patients with complex medical and surgical needs in an inpatient setting.
For further details please contact Rebecca Draper/ Robert Cronin Team Leads Acute Services or June Beharry Lead Dietitian GRH 422 5506
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Dietetics
- Registered with HCPC
- Experience of working within the NHS
Desirable
- Post registration training e.g. Masters level in dietetics
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
- Attendance on relevant accredited courses
- Training and /or demonstrated experience in Leadership and Development
- Car owner/driver
Experience
Essential
- Develop and deliver training materials to a variety of audiences
- Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible
- Experience of effective working relationship within a team or teams
- Prioritise workloads
- Implement evidence-based practice.
Desirable
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in inpatient dietetics
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in decision making all types of enteral/parenteral feeding
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in decision making in complex nutritional cases
- Demonstrate experience of involvement in service development
- Demonstrate contribution to treatment pathways and outcomes that have resulted in improvements
- Experience of leading and managing staff
- Be responsible for clinical supervision of junior staff and students
- Experience in implementing clinical governance
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening, caring and empathy skills and can relate well to staff and patients.
- Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening skills.
- Ability to assess individuals with complex medical problems and to plan their dietetic care
- Ability to make decision regarding change of practice based on clinical evidence and to disseminate same to other health professionals.
- Ability to problem-solve.
- To demonstrate Trust required behaviours in working towards Individual, Department, Divisional and Trust Objectives/Goals.
- Ability to deliver education sessions to patients, colleague and healthcare staffEA/I
- Prioritisation, planning and organisational and time management skills with ability to meet deadlines
- Evidence of Continued CPD, including evidence of reflective practice, service evaluation and utilisation of best practice.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel
- Ability to work outside normal working hours, including occasional evenings if the service requires.
Desirable
- Able to implement research evidence-based practice and apply to practice for continuous service improvement
- The ability to manage change and conflict to ensure resolutions with positive outcomes
- Able to travel to other hospital sites and community locations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Dietetics
- Registered with HCPC
- Experience of working within the NHS
Desirable
- Post registration training e.g. Masters level in dietetics
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
- Attendance on relevant accredited courses
- Training and /or demonstrated experience in Leadership and Development
- Car owner/driver
Experience
Essential
- Develop and deliver training materials to a variety of audiences
- Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible
- Experience of effective working relationship within a team or teams
- Prioritise workloads
- Implement evidence-based practice.
Desirable
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in inpatient dietetics
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in decision making all types of enteral/parenteral feeding
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in decision making in complex nutritional cases
- Demonstrate experience of involvement in service development
- Demonstrate contribution to treatment pathways and outcomes that have resulted in improvements
- Experience of leading and managing staff
- Be responsible for clinical supervision of junior staff and students
- Experience in implementing clinical governance
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening, caring and empathy skills and can relate well to staff and patients.
- Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening skills.
- Ability to assess individuals with complex medical problems and to plan their dietetic care
- Ability to make decision regarding change of practice based on clinical evidence and to disseminate same to other health professionals.
- Ability to problem-solve.
- To demonstrate Trust required behaviours in working towards Individual, Department, Divisional and Trust Objectives/Goals.
- Ability to deliver education sessions to patients, colleague and healthcare staffEA/I
- Prioritisation, planning and organisational and time management skills with ability to meet deadlines
- Evidence of Continued CPD, including evidence of reflective practice, service evaluation and utilisation of best practice.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel
- Ability to work outside normal working hours, including occasional evenings if the service requires.
Desirable
- Able to implement research evidence-based practice and apply to practice for continuous service improvement
- The ability to manage change and conflict to ensure resolutions with positive outcomes
- Able to travel to other hospital sites and community locations.
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).
