Specialist Community Dietitian with interest in Home Enteral Feeding

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a new community adult dietitian, with a specialist interest in Home Enteral Feeding to join our dietetic team at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital, part of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton(UHDB). This post is split 0.6 WTE community dietetics, and 0.4 Home Enteral Feeding.

We are looking for a dietitian ready to step up to a specialist role, offering more advanced care and working autonomously in delivering expert dietetic advice. You will be part of both the community dietetic team and the HEF team whom are teams of talented, patient driven dietitians and assistants that work to enhance service provision for patients in the community. We are looking for someone to work autonomously and as part of a team. The post will lend itself to occasional home working.

The HEF team is a newly created team, with a recently appointed clinical lead. The Team consists of dietitians, assistants practitioners, and excellent administrative support.

You will have links with the dietitians in the acute hospitals at Royal Derby Hospital, Queens Hospital Burton and the community team at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital.

We in return offer ample develop opportunities including specialist clinical training and will prioritise regular 1:1's for support. We are a socially inclusive department, committed to empowering the staff, with emphasis on wellbeing and positive team culture.

Main duties of the job

Our community dietetic service support care predominantly in the outpatient setting but do cover an element of inpatients. We offer support to GP's, health visitors and care homes and have close working relationships with many other health care professionals. We offer home visits for our most vulnerable patients unable to access the clinics in person.

Our HEF service offer high quality care to adult patients with a range of clinical conditions requiring long term enteral nutrition. You may be asked to see some paediatric patients that are enterally fed at home.

You will ensure services are delivered in a safe and effective manner and will have skills to regularly review and improve service delivery. The post holder will report directly to the Community Team leader.

You will be part of the delivery of a comprehensive and effective evidence based dietetic service. You will have opportunities for development and the UHDB team ensure well-being of staff is prioritised.

We have an established student training programme for A, B and C placements, in which you will participate, and the department encourages innovation, CPD and professional development.

Closing date of applications: 16 August 2023

Interview date:30 August 2023

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.

• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

FNCH (Florence Nightingale Children's Hospital) / RDH

London Road

Derby

DE1 2QY

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

FNCH (Florence Nightingale Children's Hospital) / RDH

London Road

Derby

DE1 2QY

Employer's website

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

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