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Job summary

Main area
James Cook Cancer Institute & Speciality Medicine Services
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
328-JCSM-7188616
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Friarage Hospital
Town
Northallerton
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/06/2025 23:59

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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Dietitian - Community and Inpatient Nutritional Support (Adult)

Band 6

Job overview

We have an excellent opportunity for a motivated and proactive dietitian who would welcome a mixed caseload that provides both inpatient and community based care.

Our wider service covers The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, The Friarage Hospital, Northallerton and the community localities of Hambleton and Richmond and Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland locality.

You will work closely with colleagues working within the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton and across the Hambleton and Richmond community locality, providing expert advice to patients, carers, health care professionals and primary care and community staff. 

The post will also involve education of students and other health care professional and support workers. We have been trainers for student dietitians for a number of years and are also now supporting our first Dietetic Support Worker apprenticeship.

Main duties of the job

Whilst the caseload will predominantly be with adults requiring oral and enteral nutritional support, there will also be opportunity to support within palliative care, gastroenterology and stroke rehab.

Our ideal candidate will have a wide range of post registration clinical experience and preferably some experience in the development and support of other dietetic and support staff members, and dietetic students. 

You should have excellent communication skills, including the proven ability to motivate patients and colleagues using a wide variety of approaches. Above all you must be passionate about working within dietetics using drive and innovation to make positive changes.
It is vital that you have the ability to develop good working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across the health and social care economy. 

This post involves travel and the post holder will work in a variety of settings including clinics, clients’ own homes and other community healthcare settings. The main office base for this post is in the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton and Hambleton and Richmond locality. The community service uses Systmone, which facilitates mobile working. The clinical caseload will require a mix of face to face and virtual service provision.

Working for our organisation

Continual Professional Development is actively encouraged, as is participation in audit and quality improvement. We have access to excellent facilities within STRIVE, to support leadership, managerial and quality development opportunities.

Northallerton is a busy market town in the Hambleton and Richmond locality surrounded by beautiful countryside, market towns and villages and within easy reach of the coast. It is served by good travel networks; is within easy reach of the A1M motorway; cities such as Newcastle, Durham, York and Leeds are very accessible via the East Coast main line train service. We are also close to three international airports – Teesside, Leeds Bradford and Newcastle. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff.  This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the following training sessions

·        Your Leadership Impact

·        Leading your Team to Success

·        Leading Into the Future

·        Service Improvement for Beginners

·        Developing your Service Improvement Skills

·        Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

  • Explore leadership within the NHS
  • Promote Trust values and behaviours
  • Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
  • Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • To hold a Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
  • To be registered as a Dietitian and fit to practice by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
  • Leadership training
  • Clinical supervisory skills training
  • To be committed to continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Completed preceptorship programme or alternative
  • Behaviour change training
  • To have achieved or willing to work towards relevant Post-graduate qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Can demonstrate relevant/varied post graduate experience across a variety of clinical areas including nutritional support and home enteral feeding.
  • Recent NHS experience in a clinical setting
  • Recent experience of managing patients requiring tube feeding in the hospital and community setting.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience with palliative care and general experience with non-complex diabetes and gastroenterology

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of audit and participation in service development
  • Skills in the use of SystmOne or another electronic patient record system
Desirable criteria
  • Membership of: British Dietetic Association (BDA), BDA specialist groups and other relevant groups

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Leonie Prince
Job title
Operational Lead Dietitian (FHN and H&R locality)
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01609 762012
Additional information

Alternative contact:

Georgia Payne

Head of Dietetics and Adult Speech Therapy

[email protected]

01642 854777

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
Telephone
01642 850850, ext. 57396
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