Specialist Dietitian (Home Enteral Feeding and Nutrition Support)
Job summary
Join our forward-thinking Nutrition and Dietetics Service and develop specialist expertise in Home Enteral Feeding and Nutrition Support. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your clinical skills across community and acute services while contributing to the supervision and development of junior colleagues within a supportive and dynamic team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Adult Clinical Dietetic Team for a motivated and enthusiastic Dietitian to join our Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) and Nutrition Support Service. This post offers the opportunity to develop specialist expertise in home enteral tube feeding and complex nutrition support while working as part of a highly supportive and experienced dietetic team.
The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of high-quality nutritional care across community and acute settings and play an important role in supporting and line managing junior members of the team. This position would be ideal for a Dietitian with a strong interest in Home Enteral Feeding who is keen to develop advanced clinical skills and broaden their experience across a varied adult caseload.
Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will: Provide specialist dietetic assessment and intervention for patients requiring home enteral tube feeding and complex nutrition support. Manage a varied caseload across community and acute services. Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective patient-centred care. Contribute to service development, quality improvement and governance activities.
Support, supervise and develop junior members of the dietetic workforce and students. Provide expert advice and education to patients, carers and healthcare professionals. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality, have a our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital which is the first of its kind in England.
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true?
Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for a diverse caseload of Home Enteral Tube Feeding & complex nutrition support patients within Northumberland & North Tyneside in a variety of settings including face to face / telephone clinics, patient's homes & acute / community hospital wards.
You must be able to work both autonomously and as part of a team within the wider MDT. It is also expected you will contribute to student training and act as a support for our Band 5 Dietitians & Dietetic Support Workers. We encourage participation in regular CPD activities and we hold regular departmental and team meetings including a monthly journal club allowing the opportunity to learn from training, case discussions and peer support.
The post holder is expected to: Work closely within Home Enteral Tube Feeding & Nutrition Support service & assist with service development Manage a busy & complex caseload of patients with a variety of conditions Be an active part of the Regional Home Enteral Tube Feeding Network Group Provide support to a varied caseload across acute & community settings Deliver highly specialised dietetic advice to patients and their families / carers Work in a strategic manner and have a positive attitude to caseload & specialist area Act as a specialist resource for patients, their families and other health professionals Be able to implement change using advanced counselling and motivational interviewing techniques Plan and organise education and training sessions for colleagues, student dietitians, other health professionals, and other outside agencies Advise and formulate policies relating to specialist area of work (HEF / Nutrition Support) Participate in audit & research Contribute to, develop, monitor and comply with standards and policies for the dietetic department and the Trust
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
Degree in nutrition and dietetics or first level degree plus postgraduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics Current registration with Health Professions Council Practice Educator
Desirable
PEN Group / DAFNE /DESMONDor other accredited qualification Non-Medical Prescribing Other requirements
Essential
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Desirable
Have supervised students Experience in critical appraisal Experience and knowledge
Essential
A range of in and outpatient experience Member of the BDA Experience working within Home Enteral Tube Feeding
Desirable
Experience in critical appraisal
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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).
