Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Dietitian to join our team of 20 Dietetic staff at Colchester hospital, part of East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Trust.
This is a full-time permanent position based at Colchester hospital where you will work alongside the Stroke MDT and Band 7 Specialist Dietitians to provide an evidence based dietetic service for both adult inpatients and outpatients within the Stroke service and in General Medicine.
As a department we will support your individual personal development with regular CPD sessions and training opportunities e.g. study days and clinical supervision.
You must have excellent communication skills, be flexible and able to use their own initiative. Post registration experience in an acute setting is essential.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing a specialist dietetic service in General Medicine and be the lead for the Dietetic Stroke service based at Colchester hospital.
You will support the effective management of the acute clinical caseload by providing supervision, support and active input into inpatients referred to the dietetic service.
As well as supporting band 5 rotational dietitians, you will be actively involved in student training.
About us
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oGood clinical knowledge and experience
- oExperience working in different clinical settings including clinical experience in Stroke/Nutrition support
Qualifications
Essential
- oBSc Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
- oCurrent HCPC registration in Dietetics
- oClinical Supervisory skills course/ Student training/ mentorship course
Desirable
- oMember of British Dietetic Association
- oPENG clinical update course or relevant post registration training in artificial nutrition support
- oMember of the BDA specialist groups and PENG group
Skills
Essential
- oGood organisational skills
- oGood time management and ability to prioritise workload
Desirable
- oBasic IT skills in order to be able to use trust intranet and to input patient activity data
- oAble to use PowerPoint programme
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colchester
Colchester
CO4 5JL