Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, enthusiastic, hardworking, and self-motivated Dietitian to join our friendly and welcoming team of Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants.
The newly commissioned multi-disciplinary service will be offering sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedures to up to 150 patients per year, to patients who have completed specialist weight management programmes within the Merseyside, Lancashire, and Cumbria regions. The Dietitian will work as part of the specialist surgical and non-surgical MDT to determine which patients are suitable for surgery, provide pre-operative advice and support, assessment and advice immediately post op and will continue to provide ongoing specialist Dietetic input for up to 2 years. They will also offer non-surgical interventions to patients who have been unable to achieve or maintain significant weight loss
Main duties of the job
As this is an evolving service, pathways and resources will need to be developed and these should align to the standards set in the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS) guidelines. Experience in service design, implementation and evaluation will therefore be valuable. In addition, the successful applicant will have experience in weight management, management of surgical complications and nutrition support. They will provide an evidence based dietetic service to both inpatient and outpatient services. Measurements of success via patient feedback and outcome measures is vital. Support will be available from the Professional Lead for Dietetics and the wider Dietetic team.
The successful applicant will be a good team player but be able to work individually. They must be flexible, reliable, conscientious, forward thinking, and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Comprehensive clinical dietetic knowledge and recent clinical experience particularly in weight management, surgery and nutrition support are essential. Teaching skills, experience of multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working and experience in and enthusiasm for service improvement and clinical audit are vital. There are protected audit sessions within our job plans and within the Trust and staff are encouraged to make use of these.
About us
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
- CAREthat is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
- SAFETY that is of the highest standards
- COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
- SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
- PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
- Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A flexible approach to day-to-day tasks is required, to meet the demands of the service. Our philosophy is to keep the patient at the heart of everything we do. We look for people who are committed to being part of a healthcare team that delivers an excellent caring service to our patients.
The successful candidate will:
- Deliver a high standard of evidence-based care
- Be confident in their assessment and decision making
- Participate in the discharge planning process
- Supervise Dietetic Assistants, Band 5 and 6 Dietitians and students on clinical placement
- Have significant postgraduate experience as a band 5/6 Dietitian
- Have the ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing working patterns
- Have a working knowledge of a broad range of conditions with proven clinical skills or a keen interest in training in this specialist area.
PLEASE NOTE we provide a seven-day service, days of work will be Sunday to Saturday. You may be asked to provide occasional cover on a Bank Holiday.
KEY DUTIES
- To work within Trust clinical guidelines, HCPC and Registrant Body guidelines and to have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these
- To work in secondary care in a variety of hospital settings and the patients own homes.
- To demonstrate as appropriate to role highly developed physical skills for assessment and treatment of patients eg dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses.
- To deputise for senior staff in leading specific team.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- To communicate complex patient and service-related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector agencies.
- Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.
- To involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management and decisions that are made about treatment techniques and facilitating patient involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service.
- To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment, diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within the trust.
- Providing leadership; promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies; leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.
- Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence-based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.
- Driving innovation; managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the trust.
- To triage patients with complex needs.
- To undertake complex clinical assessments of patients/ service users within sphere of advanced practice.
- To determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/ care plans.
- Implement complex care/ interventions according to clinical need.
- Evaluate complex care/ interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.
- To provide advanced clinical advice, support and training to patients/ service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and wellbeing.
- To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.
- Registered practitioners who are non-medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by ensuring they are aware of their Professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations in their prescribing practice.
- To develop and maintain the high-level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.
- To collect appropriate data and statistics for the use in the review of the service delivery.
- To use appropriate information technology skills for communication when required.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To deliver relevant, evidence-based training to patients, families, carers and trust staff.
- To provide specific training as required to the patient, family, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team on the clinical and therapeutic management of an individual to support their health and wellbeing.
- To supervise and performance manage a range of clinical and non-clinical staff (including students) as required to do so. Taking into account the breadth of knowledge, skills and experience held and required.
- To attend and contribute to local and national conferences and special interest groups within sphere of practice.
- To maintain own CPD by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work, supporting other staff with their CPD.
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To demonstrate leadership by means of:
- Delivering change within sphere of practice, when and where indicated, to improve service delivery.
- Influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the trust.
- To provide high level advice and guidance in working with colleagues locally to ensure best practice across all disciplines in the assessment, treatment and long-term management of patients/ service users within sphere of practice.
- To identify innovations and lead the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients/ service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.
- To take responsibility for their own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of their team which effect service delivery.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE, RESEARCH & AUDIT
- Registered Practitioners are required to evidence maintenance of their registration with the relevant regulatory body and work to their Code of Professional Conduct.
- To benchmark current service delivery against local and national clinical guidelines and standards of care.
- To lead on current best practice, based on the bench marking outcomes.
- To translate local and national guidelines and train staff to ensure they have the skills and knowledge required to deliver effective services.
- To measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence-based projects, audit, research, statistical information and outcome measures and lead others in doing so.
- To network with practitioner colleagues within the trust and across the North West and Nationally, to learn together and share good practice.
- To interpret and implement quality assurance practices within own work situation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A flexible approach to day-to-day tasks is required, to meet the demands of the service. Our philosophy is to keep the patient at the heart of everything we do. We look for people who are committed to being part of a healthcare team that delivers an excellent caring service to our patients.
The successful candidate will:
- Deliver a high standard of evidence-based care
- Be confident in their assessment and decision making
- Participate in the discharge planning process
- Supervise Dietetic Assistants, Band 5 and 6 Dietitians and students on clinical placement
- Have significant postgraduate experience as a band 5/6 Dietitian
- Have the ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing working patterns
- Have a working knowledge of a broad range of conditions with proven clinical skills or a keen interest in training in this specialist area.
PLEASE NOTE we provide a seven-day service, days of work will be Sunday to Saturday. You may be asked to provide occasional cover on a Bank Holiday.
KEY DUTIES
- To work within Trust clinical guidelines, HCPC and Registrant Body guidelines and to have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these
- To work in secondary care in a variety of hospital settings and the patients own homes.
- To demonstrate as appropriate to role highly developed physical skills for assessment and treatment of patients eg dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses.
- To deputise for senior staff in leading specific team.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- To communicate complex patient and service-related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector agencies.
- Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.
- To involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management and decisions that are made about treatment techniques and facilitating patient involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service.
- To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment, diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within the trust.
- Providing leadership; promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies; leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.
- Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence-based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.
- Driving innovation; managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the trust.
- To triage patients with complex needs.
- To undertake complex clinical assessments of patients/ service users within sphere of advanced practice.
- To determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/ care plans.
- Implement complex care/ interventions according to clinical need.
- Evaluate complex care/ interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.
- To provide advanced clinical advice, support and training to patients/ service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and wellbeing.
- To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.
- Registered practitioners who are non-medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by ensuring they are aware of their Professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations in their prescribing practice.
- To develop and maintain the high-level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.
- To collect appropriate data and statistics for the use in the review of the service delivery.
- To use appropriate information technology skills for communication when required.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To deliver relevant, evidence-based training to patients, families, carers and trust staff.
- To provide specific training as required to the patient, family, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team on the clinical and therapeutic management of an individual to support their health and wellbeing.
- To supervise and performance manage a range of clinical and non-clinical staff (including students) as required to do so. Taking into account the breadth of knowledge, skills and experience held and required.
- To attend and contribute to local and national conferences and special interest groups within sphere of practice.
- To maintain own CPD by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work, supporting other staff with their CPD.
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- To demonstrate leadership by means of:
- Delivering change within sphere of practice, when and where indicated, to improve service delivery.
- Influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the trust.
- To provide high level advice and guidance in working with colleagues locally to ensure best practice across all disciplines in the assessment, treatment and long-term management of patients/ service users within sphere of practice.
- To identify innovations and lead the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients/ service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.
- To take responsibility for their own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of their team which effect service delivery.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE, RESEARCH & AUDIT
- Registered Practitioners are required to evidence maintenance of their registration with the relevant regulatory body and work to their Code of Professional Conduct.
- To benchmark current service delivery against local and national clinical guidelines and standards of care.
- To lead on current best practice, based on the bench marking outcomes.
- To translate local and national guidelines and train staff to ensure they have the skills and knowledge required to deliver effective services.
- To measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence-based projects, audit, research, statistical information and outcome measures and lead others in doing so.
- To network with practitioner colleagues within the trust and across the North West and Nationally, to learn together and share good practice.
- To interpret and implement quality assurance practices within own work situation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Professional Registration i.e., degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC registration
- Clinical Educators Certificate
Desirable
- Post Grad accredited study e.g., MSc in relevant health studies
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Advanced clinical knowledge relevant to the care environment and evidence of evidence-based practise in relevant health setting.
- Awareness of own strengths and limitations
- Knowledge of relevant national policies and guidance and relevant assessment tools
- Experience of leadership of a team including change management
- Evidence of effective working within an MDT
- Experience of Service development
- Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches
- Audit and research in a clinical area
- Demonstrates continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of measuring and reporting on outcome measures
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to motivate team performance to achieve objectives
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
- Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings
- Accurate record keeping, report writing and IT skills including presentation skills
- Mentorship skills
- Have a flexible approach to working with good time management
Other
Essential
- Demonstrates a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust values at all times
Desirable
- Membership of appropriate BDA Specialist Group
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Professional Registration i.e., degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC registration
- Clinical Educators Certificate
Desirable
- Post Grad accredited study e.g., MSc in relevant health studies
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Advanced clinical knowledge relevant to the care environment and evidence of evidence-based practise in relevant health setting.
- Awareness of own strengths and limitations
- Knowledge of relevant national policies and guidance and relevant assessment tools
- Experience of leadership of a team including change management
- Evidence of effective working within an MDT
- Experience of Service development
- Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches
- Audit and research in a clinical area
- Demonstrates continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of measuring and reporting on outcome measures
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to motivate team performance to achieve objectives
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
- Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings
- Accurate record keeping, report writing and IT skills including presentation skills
- Mentorship skills
- Have a flexible approach to working with good time management
Other
Essential
- Demonstrates a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust values at all times
Desirable
- Membership of appropriate BDA Specialist Group
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).
