Highly Specialist Dietitian (Medicine) | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8XP |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6300662/287-DSS-288-24 |
Summary
Band 7 Medical Specialist Dietitian, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced dietitian interested in enhancing leadership and service development skills in a Team Lead role. We are looking for an innovative, self-motivated dietitian with leadership, teamwork and organisational skills.
You will lead the inpatient acute medical team, covering acute medical admissions units, respiratory medicine, palliative care and Department of Medicine for Older People.
Post registration experience in acute NHS hospital settings is required; a broad range of experience, knowledge of complex feeding issues, MDT working and holistic care. Communication skills and flexibility are vital. You will be involved in co-ordinating a team of dietitians to meet clinical need and facilitate discharge. You will be an integral part of the dietetic leadership team at RLUH.
Training opportunities will support you to develop clinical, leadership and research skills, to help you thrive in this role. Enthusiasm for quality improvement, teaching, coaching and service development is essential. You will be supported to participate in research projects. We are committed to developing your knowledge and skills to their full potential.
Requests for part time/flexible working will be considered. This opportunity is also open to experienced Band 6s who are keen to develop into a band 7 role, a training post may be offered if appropriate under Annex 21 conditions.
Clinically the post holder will be responsible for covering a busy in-patient caseload providing specialised dietetic support for acute medical patients. The post holder will be expected to attend MDT meetings and ward rounds and will work closely with our medical, AHP teams and specialist nurses. The post holder will be part of a wider dietetic team comprised of over 40wte dietitians, dietetic assistant practitioners and dietetic assistants and will provide support for band 6 and band 5 rotational staff working within medicine.
We are looking for a Dietitian with excellent communication skills, the ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Operational responsibilities include monitoring referrals and activity, prioritising caseload as necessary, evaluating activity, responding to service demands. The Dietitian will work with the team contributing to service improvement, training, supervision of junior staff and assistants, development of protocols, policies, resources, standards and audit.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Job Summary
To provide factually accurate, unbiased evidence based nutritional advice appropriate to the needs of individual. Advice will be provided using a patient-centred approach, in the context of multidisciplinary, multiagency delivery plans.
Job Purpose
To be a clinical lead in the Trust for nutrition and dietetic services to your own specialist area. This involves:-
1. Personally providing the dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients.
2. Educating/training other members of the multi-disciplinary team in specialist area.
3. Clinical supervision of newly qualified staff and Band 5/Band 6 dietitians on rotation.
4. Training of Student Dietitians.
5. Development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to clinical speciality.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Jun 2024