Job summary
Be part of our passionate dietetic team at MFT where we empower people to achieve their goals, feel better & live longer. Here you'll be a highly valued member of our amazingly diverse seventy strong dietetic team, who make a real difference across 4 hospital sites.
Based at Wythenshawe Teaching Hospital (WTWA) and Trafford General Hospital (TGH), you'll be close to vibrant Manchester, enjoying its culture and excellent transport links. Whilst also working in the relatively calm surroundings of suburban hospitals.
As we work together to improve the services provided to our local community & those accessing our regional specialist services. You & your patients will benefit from the biggest electronic record system & innovative online patient portal.
As an inspiring & organised individual, you will drive forward quality improvement, governance activities, staff health initiatives & pre or post registration training. Want more opportunities, consider the career paths of your colleagues who have developed their leadership skills, accessed research opportunities, undertaken a non-medical prescribing course, advanced their clinical competencies & expanded their educator abilities.
Whether working towards your band 7 competencies or applying with a wealth of leadership experience you will be highly supported with regular personal development meetings and peer support from other dietetic team leaders.
Main duties of the job
With advanced clinical knowledge, interpersonal skills, & leadership qualities you will be responsible for the delivery of dietetics in diabetes, lipid disorders, and respiratory weight management, across the two sites. For TGH, you will also guide your team in the provision of nutritional inpatient rehabilitation for stroke, neurology, medicine, and orthopaedic services.
Alongside another team lead dietitian, you'll support your team of four dietitians and dietetic assistant to deliver, evaluate & improve practice to ensure high quality, evidence-based, patient-centred care.
A nutritional expert in your field you will provide supervision to post & pre-registration dietitians. Proposing learning opportunities, contributing to competency achievement, & coaching them to advance their own professional practice.
A highly experienced autonomous practitioner with a recognised dietetics degree or equivalent & registered with the HCPC; you'll assess the nutritional condition of patients with complex needs, make comprehensive dietetic diagnoses, request diagnostic tests, give treatment options, & provide evidenced-based advice. As the consistent practitioner, you'll review outcomes, & adapt care plans to facilitate patient centred goals.
As a valued member of multi-disciplinary services, you'll build good working relationships with highly skilled nurses, doctors, psychiatrists & other allied health professionals. Working together to achieve the best outcome for your patients.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) or post graduate Diploma in Dietetics
- Current registration with HCPC
- Qualification or evidence of working towards a Masters in area of specialisation
Desirable
- Higher level degree eg Masters in relevant clinical area or in Clinical Leadership/Management/Education
- Teaching qualification
- Current membership of BDA
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post graduate dietetic experience
- In-depth knowledge to expert level of nutrition support, including complex enteral and parenteral feeding regimes and the specific requirements of hypercatabolic ICU patients
- Experience in a clinical supervisory role, providing support and guidance to junior members of staff and students
- Evidence of contribution to service improvement
- Evidence of CPD to comply with HPC requirements for registration
- Experience of policy and/or protocol development
- Experience in development and delivery of teaching and learning programmes at under and post-graduate level
- Evidence of successful change management
- Experience of audit
Desirable
- Experience of managing a team including recruitment, selection and appraisal
- Clinical experience within critical care, burns, burns critical care, tissue viability or cardiothoracic including transplant
- Clinical research experience
Skills
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and settings
- Presentation skills to demonstrate effective and efficient work
- Evidence of effective working with MDT and multi-agency teams
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise workload and meet deadlines despite repeated interruptions
- Accurate anthropometric measuring skills
- Competency in IT Office programmes and dietary analysis software
- Well developed behaviour change and counselling skills
- Ability to synthesise and analyse complex clinical and theoretical information
- Able to work autonomously
- Problem solving skills
Desirable
- Publishing track record
- Evidence of presentations/lectures
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of clinical governance
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
- Understanding of team dynamics
- Knowledge of current NHS trends which influence service provision
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) or post graduate Diploma in Dietetics
- Current registration with HCPC
- Qualification or evidence of working towards a Masters in area of specialisation
Desirable
- Higher level degree eg Masters in relevant clinical area or in Clinical Leadership/Management/Education
- Teaching qualification
- Current membership of BDA
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post graduate dietetic experience
- In-depth knowledge to expert level of nutrition support, including complex enteral and parenteral feeding regimes and the specific requirements of hypercatabolic ICU patients
- Experience in a clinical supervisory role, providing support and guidance to junior members of staff and students
- Evidence of contribution to service improvement
- Evidence of CPD to comply with HPC requirements for registration
- Experience of policy and/or protocol development
- Experience in development and delivery of teaching and learning programmes at under and post-graduate level
- Evidence of successful change management
- Experience of audit
Desirable
- Experience of managing a team including recruitment, selection and appraisal
- Clinical experience within critical care, burns, burns critical care, tissue viability or cardiothoracic including transplant
- Clinical research experience
Skills
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and settings
- Presentation skills to demonstrate effective and efficient work
- Evidence of effective working with MDT and multi-agency teams
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise workload and meet deadlines despite repeated interruptions
- Accurate anthropometric measuring skills
- Competency in IT Office programmes and dietary analysis software
- Well developed behaviour change and counselling skills
- Ability to synthesise and analyse complex clinical and theoretical information
- Able to work autonomously
- Problem solving skills
Desirable
- Publishing track record
- Evidence of presentations/lectures
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of clinical governance
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
- Understanding of team dynamics
- Knowledge of current NHS trends which influence service provision
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
