Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition & Dietetics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Full time & part time posts available)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 820-7219151-ASR
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gee House
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/07/2025
Employer heading
Band 7 Highly Specialist Primary Care Dietitian (PCN)
Band 7
Job overview
Would you like to join a small team of dietitians working in a novel and exciting way? Are you keen to develop your Primary Care (General Practice) skills and support our non-Dietitian colleagues to deliver excellent patient care in the right place and at the right time? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has vacancies in our well established PCN Service and is looking for someone like you to develop your career and build on your existing skills.
This team works directly with GP Practices and their staff to deliver a highly autonomous nutrition service across a wide range of conditions and for patients of all ages. There are opportunities to develop and use your specialist dietetic skills in areas including frailty, gastro, diabetes, weight management and paediatrics. Embedded with the PCN, you will collaborate with other experienced PCN Dietitians to deliver this service and will have the professional support and leadership of the Dietetic Service Leads.
Main duties of the job
As PCN Dietitian you will work with designated GP practices to deliver a comprehensive and autonomous nutrition service. Continuing service development and innovation is a key part of this role, and through collaboration with other PCN Dietitians you will help shape this new and growing service.
In Birmingham we have embraced new ways of working to deliver safe high-quality care and enable staff to maintain a flexible work life balance. These include virtual consultations via telephone or video and some face-to-face clinics / care home visits.
Working for our organisation
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This team works directly with GP Practices and their staff to deliver a highly autonomous nutrition service across a wide range of conditions and for patients of all ages.
Birmingham Community Nutrition provides a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham CCG and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic students from two higher education institutions (A, B & C placements).
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a structured approach to Clinical Governance and your personal development via preceptorship, annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust, whose goal is to be a truly inclusive organisation and a great place to work.
Full roles and responsibilities in JD attached
Person specification
Qualifications / training
Essential criteria
- Registered Dietitian with current HCPC registration.
- Evidence of CPD
- Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
- Post graduate training or equivalent relevant experience within one or more specialist areas of Dietetics
Qualifications / training
Essential criteria
- Registered Dietitian with current HCPC registration.
- Evidence of CPD
- Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
- Post graduate training or equivalent relevant experience within one or more specialist areas of Dietetics
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working within a specialist area of dietetics
- Experience of developing, implementing and evaluating projects and audits.
- Experience of supervising or developing staff.
- Experience of student training
- Experience of clinical dietetics at senior grade
- Experience of dietetic leadership
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working within a specialist area of dietetics
- Experience of developing, implementing and evaluating projects and audits.
- Experience of supervising or developing staff.
- Experience of student training
- Experience of clinical dietetics at senior grade
- Experience of dietetic leadership
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of highly specialist clinical assessment skills
- Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and practical application of current evidence based practice
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, varying approach according to need/situation
- Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of BDA code of Professional Conduct
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of Clinical Governance, standard setting and audit process (understanding the principles of Clinical Governance).
- Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility in respect of health and safety
- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance.
- Ability to demonstrate negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to produce legible, written communication including reports
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- An ability to be flexible in a changing environment
- An ability to work independently and on own initiative
- An ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working
- An ability to develop and maintain links with outside agencies
- An ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
- An ability use tact and diplomacy where necessary
- Demonstrates innovative ideas
- Ability to work in a variety of setting and environments.
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to different locations within the city
- Ability to move and handle equipment and assist service users and carers in making transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sinead Walsh
- Job title
- Service Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 683 2300
- Additional information
Please also contact Sinead Walsh for further information:
0121 6832300
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