Job summary
- Main area
- Acute
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm)
- Job ref
- 110-AHP050-0425
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Pontyclun
- Salary
- £30,420 - £37,030 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Dietitian
Band 5
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Dietitian to join our forward thinking, supportive and motivated acute team of dietitians.
The successful candidate will provide dietetic intervention to inpatients on a variety of hospital wards as well as weekly outpatient clinics and education sessions, as required to nursing/medical teams. The candidate will have a key role in student training and will also work closely with a Dietetic Support Worker.
The successful candidate will share our values and vision of an integrated acute dietetic team. You will be joining a forward thinking group of dietitians who are part of a dynamic Dietetic Department of over 90 dietitians and support staff.
The department enjoys a high profile both within the wider Therapies team and across the Health Board and has good clerical and I.T. support. The department fully encourages continuing professional development. With protected sessions in job plans we actively support staff to participate and share learning opportunities and experiences.
Flexible working will be considered along with the opportunity for working from home days.
Main duties of the job
To support the provision of health care, to the people of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board catchment area. To have clinical responsibility for a varied caseload made up of adult acute patients on enteral feeding and/or oral nutritional supplements. Also outpatient work including general adult dietetic clinics or group education sessions.
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team which will include medical, nursing, therapy and catering staff and other colleagues and agencies both within the hospital and the community.
To work autonomously and work within professional policies, standards and conduct as laid down by the British Dietetic Association, the Health Care Professions Council and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Dietetic Department.
Works within clearly defined organisational policies, work is managed rather than supervised.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting document or please click 'Apply now' to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or knowledge
Essential criteria
- BSc. Nutrition & Dietetics or Equivalent Dietetic qualification with state registration. Registered with Health Care Professions Council.
- Postgraduate CPD where applicable
- Aware of current developments in Dietetic practice
- Knowledge of current reports and publications relevant to the post
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Supervisory Skills Training
- Appreciation of factors influencing the health of the local population.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing mixed clinical caseload
- Outpatient experience.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Good motivational skills
- Computer literate with keyboard skills
- Good analytical skills
- Postgraduate CPD where applicable
- Logical approach to problem solving
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Presentation skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel throughout community and UHB sites in a timely manner.
- Physically able to undertake anthropometrical measurement of patients (weighing /measuring)
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stacey James
- Job title
- Dietetic Operational Lead Nutrition & Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
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