Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7139321
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/06/2025
Employer heading
Dietitian (Band 5)
NHS AfC: Band 5
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
If you would like a supportive and professional department in which to develop your dietetic career, we have the post for you. We are looking for an enthusiastic Dietitian to join our dietetic team consisting of Dietitians, Dietetic Assistants, Dietetic Assistant Practitioner and our administrative support staff. The dietetic department is a well-respected team within the Trust and we have won various awards at the Pride of Airedale Awards events. We welcome applications from student dietitians who will be qualifying later this year. Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is a fantastic progressive and welcoming dietetics service in which to develop your dietetic career.
This is an exciting post that will give you broad dietetic experience. The role will be based in our nutrition support team where you will be offered a wide range of inpatient and outpatient dietetic experience. This will involve providing services to elderly, general medical, surgical, orthopaedic, acute medical unit, stroke rehabilitation and gastroenterology wards.
Main duties of the job
There will be opportunities to work alongside and gain practical experience with specialist dietitians working in the nutrition support team, critical care, gastroenterology, home enteral feeding, paediatrics and diabetes. There will be opportunities to train other health care professionals.
You will provide general outpatient clinics for patients referred from GPs, Consultants, and Specialist Nurses, for a variety of clinical conditions, including; type 2 diabetes, oral nutritional support, IBS, diverticular disease, coeliac disease, weight management, and dyslipidaemia. There will also be opportunities to undertake the department’s low FODMAP training programme and Home Enteral Feeding Competencies. This will be alongside covering an allocation of adult wards at Airedale General Hospital. We have an established AHP Preceptorship Programme which you will be supported to undertake in your first 12 months of dietetic practice.
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree or Post-graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate courses relevant to nutrition and dietetics
- Member of British Dietetic Association (BDA)
- Member of BDA special interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant and recent undergraduate experience working in a variety of clinical areas and settings
- Undergraduate experience of multidisciplinary team working and working collaboratively with other professions and agencies
Desirable criteria
- Recent post graduate experience with relevance to the job.
- Experience in use of IT applications
- Experience of audit and research
- Experience of service development
- Experience of working shifts/ weekends
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of nutritional needs of adults
- Knowledge of a wide range of medical and surgical conditions in adults
- Knowledge of how nutritional intake and status are affected by the above conditions, and of appropriate nutrition and dietetic treatment for adults with these conditions
- Knowledge of factors affecting eating behaviour and methods to facilitate behavioural change in adults such as motivational interviewing
- Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of multidisciplinary team and partnership working
- Knowledge of current professional issues within dietetics
- Knowledge and understanding of the culture and dietary practices of the local community including minority ethnic groups
- Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
- Knowledge of the NHS constitution
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of relevant national and local legislation relevant to dietetic practice
- Knowledge of student education and development of self as an educator
Skills
Essential criteria
- Dietetic assessment skills
- Clinical reasoning skills
- Excellent communication and counselling skills including observation, listening and empathy
- Skills to empower people to realise and maintain their potential in relation to health and well being
- Ability to work well within a team
- Planning and organisational skills Negotiation and problem-solving skills to ensure safe and effective patient care
- Analytical and reflective skills
- Presentation skills, both written and verbal, and ability to adjust style and content as appropriate
- Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment, including emotional or aggressive patients and carers
- Ability to concentrate and work intensely in a busy environment
- Ability to develop own skills and knowledge to maintain quality of work
- Ability to work flexibly, prioritise own workload, and manage time effectively
- Support senior staff with the organisation of services and projects
- Basic computer skills
Desirable criteria
- Audit and critical appraisal skills
- Ability to facilitate skills in others and appraise their performance
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- High degree of self-motivation and initiative
- High degree of integrity and reliability
- Approachable, tactful and diplomatic
- Resilient and confident
- Highly flexible to meet own and service needs and be open to new ideas
- High degree of energy and enthusiasm
- Work independently within parameters set by codes of conduct, professional guidelines and policies
- Willingly accepts responsibility, accountability and autonomy
- Conducts self professionally at all times and able to adapt approach to a range of situations.
Desirable criteria
- Actively contributes to the improvement of services by engaging service users.
- Actively seeks responsibility, accountability and autonomy
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Barry Cullen
- Job title
- Nutrition Support Specialist Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294854
- Additional information
Caroline Cox
Dietetics Manager
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