Are you a Specialist Dietician looking for an exciting opportunity? We are seeking passionate professionals to join our friendly and dedicated Dietetics Team.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of the integrated Dietetics Service at Salisbury District Hospital, leading on the delivery of an effective and efficient dietetic service in the specialty of Gastroenterology including the GI cancer cohort across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated Good by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Training

Essential

• HCPC Registration
• Have a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent, acceptable for registration with the HCPC and evidence of further postgraduate study and continuous professional development.
• A member of the British Dietetic Association and affiliated specialist interest groups relevant to this post.
• Post registration training in advanced communication, motivational interviewing and behaviour change skills and evidence of effective verbal and written communication.
• Undertaken leadership and clinical supervisory skills training and evidence of ability to lead/manage a team.
• Evidence of teaching, training, and supervision of students
• Excellent communication skills and evidence of working in MDT's.
• Evidence of working across organisational boundaries to develop effective pathways of care to the benefit of patient experience
• Evidence of effective management & supervision of junior staff & students.
• Broad NHS experience including extensive band 6/7 experience in Acute +/or Community setting.
• Extensive knowledge of local and national priorities and champion of best practice
• Knowledge and experience of clinical governance and patient safety

Desirable

• Completion of the BDA Parenteral and enteral nutrition module.
• MSc in Advanced Dietetic practice or a master's degree or evidence demonstrating working at this level.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of ability to deliver specialist evidence-based dietetics for Cancer patients.
• Ability to facilitate and deliver effective evidence based dietary and nutrition education sessions working with patient groups and staff groups.
• Ability to promote and develop nutrition risk screening practice through other staff for all patients with a cancer diagnosis, especially for those receiving chemotherapy.
• The ability to actively prioritise, meet deadlines and achieve agreed outcomes.
• Evidence of being caring and compassionate with a good understanding of managing patients with complex needs.
• Ability to advise and make recommendations on the prescription of enteral feeds and dietetic supplements based on interpretation of nutritional assessment and drug prescriptions and interactions relating to nutritional intake.
• Ability to work independently and as an effective part of a team(s) maintaining dynamic working relationships with key staff, e.g., Medical, Nursing, Therapy staff to facilitate timely and effective nutrition interventions for patients. Working as the patient's advocate for their nutritional care.
• Ability to hold others to account to support service delivery and safe practice.
• Ability to organise own workload whilst supervising others.
• Evidence of personal and professional development.
• Proven practical problem-solving skills.
• Good computer literacy to support communication, reporting, audit and working with electronic patient record systems.
• Good organisational and time management skills
• To work within HCPC registration standards for Dietetics.
• Ability to think creatively and contribute to service improvement initiatives for benefit of your patients.
• Understanding of obligations in relation to equality and diversity law
• Ability to communicate complex information to patients, carers, and MDT.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to supervise and teach junior staff, patients, carers, and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in supervision and appraisal of junior team members.
• Ability to analyse and evaluate service provision through audit and data collection
• Ability to be proactive in service development.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Evidence of ability to deliver specialist evidence-based dietetics for gastroenterology patients.
• Ability to facilitate and deliver effective evidence based dietary and nutrition education sessions working with patient groups and staff groups.
• Ability to promote and develop nutrition risk screening practice through other staff for all patients with a cancer diagnosis, especially for those receiving chemotherapy.
• Range of broad post-graduate Dietetics experience
• Evidence of recent and ongoing CPD

Employer details

Employer name

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Salisbury District Hospital

Salisbury

SP2 8BJ

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269-SFT8619