Job summary
NEW FUNDING for this B7 0.6WTE across 3 days:Mondays at the Alexandra Hospital Redditch,
Tuesdays at Kidderminster Hospital and Fridays at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
The post holder will be responsible for setting and running the day-to-day clinical, professional,
and operational management of the maternity and obstetrics diabetes service
across Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Clinical responsibilities will include providing specialist dietetic
care to women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, as well as those with rarer
forms such as Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) or Type 3c diabetes
during pregnancy, in line with Saving Babies Lives recommendations. The
post holder will also provide dietetic support for women with gestational
diabetes.
Service delivery will include dietetic cover for outpatient clinics,
incorporating a mix of face-to-face group education sessions, individual
consultations, clinic appointments, and telephone support.
Main duties of the job
- To work closely with dietetic professional & clinical lead to ensure safe and effective dietetic services within Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust
- To be the lead dietitian for staff working in maternity services
- To provide a specialist, effective, flexible clinical dietetic service to the maternity and antenatal diabetes service.
- To set up and oversee the day-to-day planning co-ordination, monitoring, evaluation and delivery of the dietetic service to maternity services.
- To be the professional lead for a specialist clinical area.
- To work jointly with the specialty team leaders across dietetics, professional lead and department manager.
- Working as an experienced autonomous practitioner, to provide a high standard of patient focused care through specialised assessment.
- To contribute to the therapy clinical governance agenda to further improve the quality of the service.
- To provide supervision, support and education to qualified staff.
About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large
acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute
services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a
larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from
three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our
caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred
care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to
work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our
everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are proud to have achieved Timewise
accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working
within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs
Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a
DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check
(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting
Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For complete details of the scope of this post, including the full range of duties, responsibilities, and professional requirements, applicants are encouraged to consult the accompanying job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
For complete details of the scope of this post, including the full range of duties, responsibilities, and professional requirements, applicants are encouraged to consult the accompanying job description and person specification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-graduation experience in the NHS.
- Experience of developing a clinical service
- Experience of working in specialist areas as part of a team.
- Experience of implementing evidence-based practice for continuous service improvement.
- Experience of teaching students and healthcare professionals.
- Experience in implementing clinical governance.
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
- Sound clinical knowledge in a relevant specialist clinical area.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
- Evidence of excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
- Evidence of dealing with sensitive communication issues and barriers to communication.
- Evidence of excellent written skills.
- Evidence of communication skills of empowerment and dealing with barriers to change.
- Evidence of clinical reasoning skills relating to working with complexities.
- Able to research evidence-based practice and apply to practice.
- Ability to train students to graduate level.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings.
- Ability to hold group patient education sessions.
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.
- Evidence of dealing with situations when individuals show anxiety, anger, emotional distress.
- Evidence of delivering a high-quality patient-centred service.
- Highly developed problem-solving skills.
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-graduation experience in the NHS.
- Experience of developing a clinical service
- Experience of working in specialist areas as part of a team.
- Experience of implementing evidence-based practice for continuous service improvement.
- Experience of teaching students and healthcare professionals.
- Experience in implementing clinical governance.
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
- Sound clinical knowledge in a relevant specialist clinical area.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
- Evidence of excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
- Evidence of dealing with sensitive communication issues and barriers to communication.
- Evidence of excellent written skills.
- Evidence of communication skills of empowerment and dealing with barriers to change.
- Evidence of clinical reasoning skills relating to working with complexities.
- Able to research evidence-based practice and apply to practice.
- Ability to train students to graduate level.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings.
- Ability to hold group patient education sessions.
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.
- Evidence of dealing with situations when individuals show anxiety, anger, emotional distress.
- Evidence of delivering a high-quality patient-centred service.
- Highly developed problem-solving skills.
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
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).
