Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Nutrition and Dietetic Service within Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust for a highly motivated individual to join the Dietetic team in the role of Acute Team Lead Dietitian. This permanent post is ideal for an experienced Dietitian who wishes to combine a career in leadership with their clinical expertise. The post will provide professional and clinical leadership to qualified and non-qualified staff within the Nutrition and Dietetic Service.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the adult acute team within the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Clinical work will be predominantly in the specialism of stroke therefore a sound knowledge of dietetic post stroke management is important. The successful candidate will have good experience of enteral feeding and parenteral feeding and will be a key member of the Nutrition Team MDT.

In addition to the clinical role, successful candidates will have line management responsibilities for the acute inpatient team consisting of 2 band 6 dietitians and 3 band 5 dietitians. You will support the Nutrition and Dietetic Service Lead with service development projects, policy updates, recruitment, development and retention of staff and students within the department.

Informal enquiries are welcomed.

Main duties of the job

·         To ensure the effective delivery of the Nutrition and Dietetic Service into designated areas.

·         To assist with providing visible and professional clinical leadership across the service working in collaboration with the other Team leaders and assist the Nutrition and Dietetic Service Manager on professional matters.

·         To provide strong clinical leadership with a requirement to balance competing clinical and performance priorities, ensuring patients are treated by an appropriate member of the team.

·         To contribute to the ongoing development of a high quality, clinically effective Nutrition and Dietetic Service by enabling staff in designated teams to work within professional and governance frameworks.

·         To include day to day allocation of resources within the service, including supervision and support of staff and students in designated areas.

·         To manage a specialised clinical caseload undertaking the assessment, provision of advice and monitoring of the patients. This care will be provided be provided in the acute environment but may involve the community setting e.g. clinics within health centres.

·         To supervise, support, teach and appraise junior staff and students within the designated areas of the service.

·         To coordinate sickness absence, recruitment and retention, performance management, study leave and staff rotations for designated staff.      

Working for our organisation

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.