Job overview

Yorkshire Cancer Research and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have come together to embark on an exciting programme to transform and improve the outcome of people recently diagnosed with cancer. The rehabilitation programme will be delivered from a purpose built facility in Hull city centre to help people with cancer prepare for and recover from treatment quickly and maintain healthy lifestyle after their cancer diagnosis. 

Reporting to the AHP Operational Manager, the Clinical Lead Dietitian will be responsible for leading the delivery of the nutrition and dietetic element of the Active Together programme. The post holder will be an experienced expert autonomous practitioner, performing complex nutritional assessments and developing, implementing and evaluating dietetic care.  Working collaboratively to deliver a multidisciplinary, inclusive and responsive service, ensuring service excellence and responding to service user diversity. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as an expert professional and will provide advice and knowledge on appropriate nutritional interventions for symptom control and disease management for patients with a cancer diagnosis. 

You will use highly specialist dietetic knowledge to undertake nutritional assessment and treatment of patients who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, determining clinical diagnosis and the dietetic treatment.

 To work closely with other members of multidisciplinary teams (MDT) and assist the Active Together management team by reporting into MDT meetings to ensure the provision of a high quality service.

To provide support and supervision to junior dietitians acting as a preceptor as well as providing support to dietetic learners and other non registered department members as required.  

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. 

You can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified
on the gov.uk website.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.