Job summary
King Edward VII Hospital (Fringe HCAS)
Full time (37.5hrs)
East Berkshire Community Dietetic Service based in Windsor has an opportunity to offer a permanent Band 5 Clinical Dietitian role.
The post holder will be covering a varied community caseload, including outpatient clinics, home enteral nutrition, community inpatient wards, patients requiring nutritional support in nursing homes and their own homes, metabolic clinics and diabetes education. An interest in developing skills in specialist dietetic areas/treatments such as paediatrics, HEN and FODMAPs would be an advantage to applicants looking for progression to band 6 roles.
We are a mobile working service and offer our patients the choice of face-to-face, virtual and phone appointments. To support this, we have excellent IT access and support staff home-working where appropriate.
As a team we strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.
Main duties of the job
- Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community as outlined above.
- Travelling to and providing care at various sites including but not limited to community hospitals, patients' homes, nursing homes, GP practices and some home working.
- Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. One Consultation and MS Teams
- Delivering diabetes education groups
- Supporting our student training programme
- Mentoring Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs)
- Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work
The "must haves" for this role:
- Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membership
- Experience of working in acute/community setting as a dietitian or dietetic student.
- Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly, travelling to multiple sites is often required
- Ability to work from home at time with access to wifi using equipment provided by BHFT
About us
Benefits of working for us include:
- AfC Salary ranging from £29,828 - £36,111 per annum (Including Fringe London High-Cost Area Supplement)
- Comfortable and well-situated office base in Windsor with free parking
- 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell leave
- Generous NHS pension scheme - 20.68% employer contribution
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- Advanced IT enablement (e.g. laptop and tablet)
- Expenses system for work-travel and training course fees
- Preceptorship programme for all newly qualified HCPs
- 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants via Blue Light Card (free to BHFT staff)
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and more to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave and access to our three staff nurseries
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Education/Qualifications/Training
- UK registered with Health Professional Council
Desirable
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Attended clinical Supervisory Skills course for student training
- Completed specialist training pre or post registration e.g. FODMAP, paediatrics, behaviour change training
Previous Experience (as a dietitian or student)
Essential
- Experience of working in a variety of dietetic settings/patient groups and partnership working with other HCPs
Desirable
- Experience in delivering group education
- Experience in carrying out research or clinical audit
- Previous involvement with providing student placements
- Previous experience using virtual platforms for patient consultations
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work from home with access to wifi (using IT equipment provided by BHFT)
- Ability to travel to multiple sites during working day as required
Desirable
- An ability to work flexibly if required, this could include evenings and weekends
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- able to demonstrate high levels of personal organisation, and the ability and keep track of competing clinical priorities and administrative tasks
- able to demonstrate high levels of personal organisation, and the ability and keep track of competing clinical priorities and administrative tasks
- Can demonstrate excellent organisational and time management skills
- Is able to prioritise workload and is flexible in approach
- Is able to work both independently and as part of a team
- Has an ability to use own initiative and to be self-motivated
- Can demonstrate different approaches to communicating with a wide variety of patients and the public, both as individuals and in groups
- Is able to plan and deliver training/education to both HCPs and patients
- Is proficient in the use of email, internet and Microsoft software packages
- Has understanding of confidentiality and data protection requirements I relation to own professional practice
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Education/Qualifications/Training
- UK registered with Health Professional Council
Desirable
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Attended clinical Supervisory Skills course for student training
- Completed specialist training pre or post registration e.g. FODMAP, paediatrics, behaviour change training
Previous Experience (as a dietitian or student)
Essential
- Experience of working in a variety of dietetic settings/patient groups and partnership working with other HCPs
Desirable
- Experience in delivering group education
- Experience in carrying out research or clinical audit
- Previous involvement with providing student placements
- Previous experience using virtual platforms for patient consultations
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work from home with access to wifi (using IT equipment provided by BHFT)
- Ability to travel to multiple sites during working day as required
Desirable
- An ability to work flexibly if required, this could include evenings and weekends
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- able to demonstrate high levels of personal organisation, and the ability and keep track of competing clinical priorities and administrative tasks
- able to demonstrate high levels of personal organisation, and the ability and keep track of competing clinical priorities and administrative tasks
- Can demonstrate excellent organisational and time management skills
- Is able to prioritise workload and is flexible in approach
- Is able to work both independently and as part of a team
- Has an ability to use own initiative and to be self-motivated
- Can demonstrate different approaches to communicating with a wide variety of patients and the public, both as individuals and in groups
- Is able to plan and deliver training/education to both HCPs and patients
- Is proficient in the use of email, internet and Microsoft software packages
- Has understanding of confidentiality and data protection requirements I relation to own professional practice
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).
