Job summary
Are you looking to further develop in your career and lead a team of acute dietitians and support staff? Do you have extensive experience of working within the acute setting? We have a permanent, full time, band 7 opportunity based in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.
You will lead, coordinate and develop the acute service in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. You will hold a complex clinical caseload of acute patients and be a key member of the wider multidisciplinary teams, ensuring optimised patient outcomes, service innovation and strategic development.
You will have knowledge and skills in complex nutrition support across a general inpatient setting including stroke, surgery and gastroenterology.
As team lead you will contribute to the day to day leadership and management of junior dietitians, encouraging and promoting their development. You will have operational responsibilities including annual leave, sickness management and supervision and development. You will also be a lead student trainer, responsible for the coordination and development of training programmes as well as providing direct training to students.
As a senior member of the dietetic team, this post will provide the opportunity to lead and develop junior staff within the dietetic service, and also to deputise for the Deputy Head of Service and Professional Managers.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a clinical lead in acute nutrition support based in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. This post will focus on delivering a quality, evidence based specialist nutrition support dietetic service to patients within the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Area.
To work autonomously managing a specialist complex and varied caseload of patients with complex nutrition support needs in addition to different clinical conditions, including stroke, complex surgery and gastroenterology identifying, planning and delivering highly specialist dietetic interventions demonstrating expertise in this area of clinical speciality.
Lead on specific clinical audit/research projects within area of speciality.
To provide leadership for junior staff and support staff and contribute to their development, as a delegated supervisor, and undertake annual performance review of junior staff.
To work in collaboration with ward multidisciplinary teams, identifying service improvements and taking forward developments in line with dietetic annual plan, and strategic developments of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
In conjunction with the head of service/deputy heads of service, interpret national and professional clinical guidelines and policies to develop clinically appropriate standards.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
The successful candidate will share our values and vision of an integrated acute dietetic team. You will be joining a forward thinking group of dietitians who are part of a dynamic Dietetic Department of over 90 dietitians and support staff.
The department enjoys a high profile both within the wider Therapies team and across the Health Board and has good clerical and I.T. support. The department fully encourages continuing professional development. With protected sessions in job plans we actively support staff to participate and share learning opportunities and experiences.
Flexible working will be considered along with the opportunity for working from home days.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent.
- Evidence of clinical supervision.
- Evidence of or qualification in research and audit.
- Health and Care Professions Council registration (HCPC).
- Evidence of professional development.
- Relevant post registration training.
- MSc or its equivalent level of knowledge and advanced post graduate training/experience in specialist clinical dietetics.
- Knowledge of audit and research and its application to acute nutrition support
Desirable
- Clinical Educators Course.
- Management qualification or evidence of management development
- Member of BDA specialist group or equivalent specialist interest group e.g. PENG, BAPEN
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience in specialist acute nutrition support at a senior level
- Considerable experience with artificial nutrition within the acute hospital environment including specialist knowledge of feeding tubes.
- Experience of working as part of a clinical team to deliver patient and organisational objectives
- Experience of conducting clinical audit and or research.
- Experience of clinical supervision of students and junior staff
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for staff, patients and students.
- Practical experience of human resource management, supervision and mentoring.
- Practical experience of lecturing/teaching/ presentations to large groups or at conferences.
Desirable
- Experience in operational management/leadership
Aptitude
Essential
- Demonstrates highly developed motivational and negotiating skills to effect change
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Able to gather, assimilate, appropriately apply and present complex data information.
- An ability to communicate complex information to NHS colleagues and partners in external organisations at a national and international level
- Demonstrates critical appraisal skills
- Ability to focus on research and project objectives and to deliver on these
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
- Skills in influencing and persuasion on specialist clinical issues with a wide range of staff and internal and external to the UHB
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent.
- Evidence of clinical supervision.
- Evidence of or qualification in research and audit.
- Health and Care Professions Council registration (HCPC).
- Evidence of professional development.
- Relevant post registration training.
- MSc or its equivalent level of knowledge and advanced post graduate training/experience in specialist clinical dietetics.
- Knowledge of audit and research and its application to acute nutrition support
Desirable
- Clinical Educators Course.
- Management qualification or evidence of management development
- Member of BDA specialist group or equivalent specialist interest group e.g. PENG, BAPEN
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience in specialist acute nutrition support at a senior level
- Considerable experience with artificial nutrition within the acute hospital environment including specialist knowledge of feeding tubes.
- Experience of working as part of a clinical team to deliver patient and organisational objectives
- Experience of conducting clinical audit and or research.
- Experience of clinical supervision of students and junior staff
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for staff, patients and students.
- Practical experience of human resource management, supervision and mentoring.
- Practical experience of lecturing/teaching/ presentations to large groups or at conferences.
Desirable
- Experience in operational management/leadership
Aptitude
Essential
- Demonstrates highly developed motivational and negotiating skills to effect change
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Able to gather, assimilate, appropriately apply and present complex data information.
- An ability to communicate complex information to NHS colleagues and partners in external organisations at a national and international level
- Demonstrates critical appraisal skills
- Ability to focus on research and project objectives and to deliver on these
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
- Skills in influencing and persuasion on specialist clinical issues with a wide range of staff and internal and external to the UHB
Desirable
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).
