Are you an experienced Dietitian, looking for a temporary or secondment opportunity to join a busy and supportive team working in Solihull community?

We seek an enthusiastic, self-motivated Dietitian with experience of nutrition support and home enteral feeding for a temporary 0.8wte Band 6 vacancy in our team.

The post holder will work in a small community nutrition support team to support the safe and effective management of patients requiring nutritional support and tube feeding across Solihull community.

When joining our team, you will also be joining the wider team of Community Therapy Services and the Trust-wide team of Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants who provide a valued service across acute and community sites within this large teaching Trust.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities and the support of a large team of senior and specialist Dietitians and Community Therapists. We also retain close links with our acute colleagues, particularly those delivering nutritional support in the acute settings.

Main duties of the job

Our clinical work is varied and interesting, covering a wide range of conditions and settings. We see patients in their own homes, care homes, residential homes, day centres, respite centres, supported living homes, clinics and schools so travel across the borough is required.

This role will work closely with General Practice, Community Health Professionals and other key stakeholders to promote malnutrition screening, malnutrition treatment and a 'food first' approach to nutrition support.

This includes reviewing the use of prescribable products, promoting appropriate prescribing and supporting community health professionals in all aspects of nutrition support. The postholder would also have opportunities to develop and deliver face-to-face and online training sessions on malnutrition and home enteral feeding.

You will need a flexible approach to managing changing work priorities, excellent team working and communication skills and effective organisational and time management strategies.

If you would like to discuss this post, please contact Lisa Alexander, Team Lead Dietitian on 0121 746 4477 or email lisa.alexander@uhb.nhs.uk, or Louise Dalby, Clinical Team Lead, Solihull Community Therapies on 0121 424 4073 or louise.dalby@uhb.nhs.uk

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 detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

• *Member of British Dietetic Association (BDA)
• *Member of relevant specialist interest groups (BDA or other)

Experience

Essential

• *Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality,
• *Demonstration of clinical experience of working with patients within speciality,
• *Ability to work as part of multidisciplinary team and dietetic team,
• *Understanding of audit, clinical effectiveness and its importance in the provision of a quality service,
• *Awareness of local needs, eg ethnic minority and low income groups,
• *Insight into own CPD needs and appropriate strategies for addressing them.

Desirable

• *Broad clinical knowledge of speciality.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• *Reliable,
• *Punctual,
• *Professional approach,
• *Appropriately assertive,
• *Demonstrates ability to be a good team member, leading where appropriate,
• *Able to judge limits of skills/competence and recognise professional boundaries where appropriate,
• *Manage busy workload across numerous community sites,
• *Computer literacy,
• *Able to contribute to 7 day and extended hours service provision as appropriate,
• *Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. where off site travel is, required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc,
• *To possess a full car driving licence and have an appropriate vehicle to available to use for work purposes,
• *Enthusiasm and motivation to work at UHB,
• *Demonstrates the Trust values of Kind, Connected & Bold.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Solihull Community Nursing

Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road

Solihull

West Midlands

B90 4BN

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