Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Registered Dietitian with acute clinical experience in nutrition support to join our team of 30 clinical staff and an excellent support team providing the Dietetics Service to Wolverhampton and Cannock. This vacancy is in our intensive care and surgical team and the successful candidate will be based at New Cross Hospital.  Our ICU & Surgical Dietitians are well recognised for their excellent clinical skills and track record in research, audit and service development. We pride ourselves on excellent staff development, and appropriate training will be provided.  We value CPD and staff development to ensure ongoing excellence in practice and staff experience.  We are a friendly, supportive and dynamic team  and recognised for our excellence in clinical placement provision - providing placements for dietetics learners from UCB, BCU, SHU and Coventry universities.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work with MDT colleagues in surgical and intensive care settings to deliver a high quality dietetics service for patients requiring dietetic intervention and nutrition support.  You will also be responsible for undertaking ward rounds with the wider MDT and participating in project work.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.