Are you an experienced Band 5 or an established Band 6 looking for your next challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a Band 6 Dietitian within the medical surgical dietetic team at UHB. You will have the opportunity to develop your career in Acute Medicine, Healthcare of Older People and Stroke, Surgery, as well as Specialist Medicine which incorporates respiratory and infectious diseases.

You will be working as part of a friendly supported team structure with a skill mixed dietetic team. Each speciality team has Band 7 dietetic team leader to support you and provide guidance in developing your leadership and management skills. In addition to your clinical caseload you will have the opportunity to lead on audits and quality improvement projects to improve patient care delivery.

Alongside the senior colleagues within our teams we also have a wealth of specialist dietetic staff across our friendly dietetic department that support shadowing opportunities and clinical supervision. Your development is very important to us and encouragement will be given to support you to thrive in this role.

Post registration experience in a NHS hospital setting with good knowledge of nutrition support is required to be able to support the team as a source of dietetic clinical knowledge and experience. Organisation, flexibility and ability to problem solve are essential as you will be working in a busy environment, across hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

The day to day tasks will differ therefore if you have experience of close multi-professional working, excellent communication and time management skills this post is a great platform to continue to build your dietetic career! An integral part of the role will involve developing your specialist dietetic skills as well as assisting with supervision of Band 5 dietitians, therapy support workers and students.

If you are a motivated and driven individual who is keen to contribute to the development of our dietetic department we look forward to receiving your application! In return, we will provide support and lots of exciting opportunities for personal development and quality improvement projects driving forward change and the development of new pathways within the service.

The Trust is committed to providing a 7 day therapy service with participation in bank holiday cover for dietetics. The post is based cross site covering Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospital, however as the Trust is a multi-site organisation you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and you may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis, because of development or reorganisation of Trust services.

We would support applicants looking for part time or full time hours.

If you would like to discuss this post further, please contact Sophie Brazier, Stroke & Healthcare of Older People Dietetic Team Lead: Sophie.Brazier@uhb.nhs.uk / Telephone: 0121 424 2673

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• * Dietitian with qualification in Nutrition & Dietetics (BSc, PG diploma or MSc)
• * Registration as Dietitian with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• * Good level of written or spoken English
• * Evidence of CPD

Experience

Essential

• * Post-graduate experience relevant to post
• * Experience of working as part of multidisciplinary team and Dietetic team.
• * Demonstrates interest/enthusiasm in relevant clinical areas
• * Good understanding of all types of intervention for nutrition support

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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