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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a new graduate Band 5 Dietitian, in our Community Dietetic Team, part of the Newcastle Nutrition Dietetic Service, at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust. This is a newly created position, which will enable the successful candidate to experience and develop skills in several core specialties. The post holder will have the opportunity to carry a caseload, oversee clinics, group education and home visits in the following areas:

• Specialist Diabetes (multidisciplinary team based at Newcastle Diabetes Centre, Centre for Ageing and Vitality)
• Oral Nutrition Support & Home Enteral feeding dietetic- led teams (based at Regent Point, Gosforth)
• Tier 3 Specialist Weight Management Multidisciplinary team & Cardiac Rehab (based at Regent Point, Gosforth)

The role will be focused on adult dietetics, there are opportunities to experience paediatrics, within home enteral feeding if interested.  it is essential you enjoy and wish to participate in effective multidisciplinary teamwork. Within the role, you will also be required to facilitate group education so an interest in developing experience and skills in this area is required. We are also looking for applications that can demonstrate excellent communication skills, as there is a strong requirement to utilise motivational interviewing, counselling skills in the specialities covered.

Main duties of the job

You will work within supportive specialist teams to assess, plan and implement care in the above clinical areas. You will be supported to develop your skills through training, preceptorship and regular 1:1 support.

The department oversees A, B and C dietetic student training in collaboration with Newcastle and Leeds Universities. The service strives to provide first-class patient care and is constantly evolving to meet patient needs. To help us achieve our aims, roles are supported by a job plan and the team is committed to supporting staff/ service development; Research, quality improvement projects, audit and CPD opportunities are all encouraged.

You will be required to work at locations across Newcastle; A car driver is essential for this post. There is a requirement to carry teaching resources and set up community rooms for education sessions including arranging bariatric chairs and setting up scales.  Newcastle Hospitals utilises electronic patient records and the successful candidate will receive mobile kit (laptop and phone).

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.