Specialist Dietitian - Inpatient Acute Nutrition Support | Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,922 - £43,257 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Abergavenny, NP7 7EG |
| Company: | Aneurin Bevan University Health Board |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6222926/040-AHP066-0424 |
Summary
Are you a Dietitian looking to develop your skills working with a small supportive team in the inpatient setting? We are looking for a dietitian with some existing post registration experience to joinus in a band 6 role due to internal promotion within the team.
This post is advertised as full time but applicants preferring part time hours are also welcome to apply.
Nevill Hall is one of the ABUHB Enhanced Local General Hospitals and provides acute inpatient care to residents of North Gwent and South Powys. Abergavenny has recently been identified as one of the best places to live in Wales, with stunning views of the Black Mountains and good train links to Hereford, Newport and Cardiff. The site takes regular step down patients from Grange University Hospital and therefore your caseload will be a mix of oral nutrition support and enteral tube feeding for patients with multiple co-morbidities, including those stepped down from the critical care centre.
Your role will primarily involve dietetic care of patients in the inpatient settingat Nevill Hall Hospital (NHH). However there may also have some opportunity to cover outpatient workvia a mixture of face to face, video and telephone clinics and virtual group education via MS Teams.
You will have the support of colleagues within the Dietetic team and opportunity to join regular team meetings, accessing CPD opportunities. This specialist team has a health board wide remit and the successful post holders may be asked to cover clinical work in other health board locations.
We are a team of 30 dietitians working across the specialities of Nutrition Support, Gastroenterology, Stroke, Oncology and Diabetes and work with a team of 14 dietetic support and admin staff. We actively participate in the dietetic student training programme for Wales.
We will support your development within this role viaour CPD programme and regular reviews with the relevant Lead Dietitian. Opportunity to apply for funding to complete related courses (e.g. Masters module in evidence based practice, BDA courses) is available.
Our core department hours are 8.30 - 4.30 but we work flexibly and within our guidance there will be scope for you to adjust working hours to fit around personal commitments.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac .
This post requires you to have HCPC registration as a dietitian. Some existing post registration experience providing dietetic care to inpatients, including advising on enteral tube feeding, is also needed. For more detail please see attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024