Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition support
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 343-NN-6226218-A&C-Z
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom & St Helier Hospital
- Town
- Carshalton
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 Pro-rata pa inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Dietitian and Therapy Manager
Band 8a
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced dietitian to lead our dietetic service across Epsom and St Helier Hospitals during the current post holders' maternity leave. If you are an HCPC registered Dietitian with extensive NHS clinical and management experience, looking for an opportunity to develop your leadership skills within a friendly and supportive team, we would love to hear from you.
This post offers a unique challenge for a highly motivated and experienced expert dietitian with proven line management experience, excellent communication skills and a passion to support innovative service development at our hospital. This is a leadership role with operational responsibility for the inpatient dietetic service. Specialities include general medical, surgical, gastroenterology, older peoples services, renal, stroke, ICU and paediatrics.
As a clinical lead, your job plan will include approximately 0.5WTE clinical caseload. This will be based on the successful applicant’s clinical expertise and will involve both outpatient and inpatient work.
Main duties of the job
- To manage the multidisciplinary team of practitioners and the service administration support, in a defined area. This includes the recruitment, appraisal, CPD and operational performance management of the team, working closely with the professional leaders for all professions.
- To provide operational leadership for the service.
- To take the lead responsibility for the provision of high quality care in the service to the local community in accordance with departmental guidelines.
- To provide clinical leadership, taking the lead on specific professional initiatives in collaboration with other team leaders and AHP leads.
- To be responsible for service development, particularly to develop integrated working and to develop improved patient pathways across primary / secondary care services.
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Always taking opportunities to improve, encouraging excellence
- Work as one team – communicate, collaborate and share
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Relevant Dietetic clinical qualification registered with HCPC.
- Certificate / Diploma in management or relevant demonstrable experience of managing the complexities of delivery of care within the NHS.
- Evidence of CPD leading to demonstrable personal development of high level clinical skills.
Desirable criteria
- MSc Health Management or similar Post Graduate Qualifications.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Consolidated experience in managing and appraising staff
- Experience of managing change on a range of service related projects.
- Experience of managing health and safety within the workplace.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of recruitment.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jill Thorpe
- Job title
- Associate Director of Nursing and AHPs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07887633065
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