NHS
Senior Dietitian (Oncology)
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Job Description
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- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust values and behaviours
- Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
- Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
- Evidence of audit and participation in service development
- Basic IT skills
- Membership of: British Dietetic Association (BDA)
- Skills with use of systmone and other electronic patient records
- To hold a Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
- To be registered as a Dietitian and fit to practice by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- To demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
- Leadership training
- Completion of HEI recognised clinical supervisory skills training
- To have undertaken and successfully completed a postgraduate preceptorship programme (or equivalent) for Band 5s
- Completion of HEI recognised clinical supervisory skills training
- Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience within an acute inpatient setting.
- Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience. across a variety of clinical specialities, ideally including working with patients within oncology / neurosciences
- Experienced and competent with enteral feeding and the home enteral feeding discharge process
- Can demonstrate relevant/varied post graduate experience across a variety of clinical areas.
- Experience with enteral feeding and the home enteral feeding discharge process
- Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience within an acute inpatient setting.
- Experience with working with patients with complex nutritional needs, such as patients with cancer or neurological disorders
- Evidence of audit and participation in service development
- Basic IT skills
- Membership of: British Dietetic Association (BDA)
- Skills with use of systmone and other electronic patient records
- To hold a Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
- To be registered as a Dietitian and fit to practice by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- To demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
- Leadership training
- Completion of HEI recognised clinical supervisory skills training
- To have undertaken and successfully completed a postgraduate preceptorship programme (or equivalent) for Band 5s
- Completion of HEI recognised clinical supervisory skills training
- Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience within an acute inpatient setting.
- Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience. across a variety of clinical specialities, ideally including working with patients within oncology / neurosciences
- Experienced and competent with enteral feeding and the home enteral feeding discharge process
- Can demonstrate relevant/varied post graduate experience across a variety of clinical areas.
- Experience with enteral feeding and the home enteral feeding discharge process
- Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience within an acute inpatient setting.
- Experience with working with patients with complex nutritional needs, such as patients with cancer or neurological disorders
Job summary
Due to expansion and development within our dietetic service at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated and proactive dietitian to work within our team. This will be a split post offering the opportunity to enhance your nutritional support skills working with patients with complex medical and social needs.
You will work 3 days a week in the speciality of Neurosciences within our Acute and Rehab Team. This caseload includes both acute high dependency and rehabilitation caseload working within Neurosurgery, Neuro HDU, Neurology and Neuro-rehab.
You will also work 2 days a week within our oncology team, including upper-GI pathways.
You should be a friendly and forward-thinking Dietitian with excellent communication skills and confident in organising and prioritising workload within a busy acute hospital. You will have experience of managing patients requiring enteral nutrition.
Please note, if you do not meet the essential criteria of the Band 6 position, a Band 5 trainee post will be considered with appointment to the Band 6 upon completion of competencies.
Main duties of the job
Working closely within the multi-disciplinary team to provide a dietetic service to all wards within the Neurosciences.
Provide specialist dietetic support, particularly to those with complex nutritional needs (both oral and enteral) across a range of neurology conditions within the acute setting such as traumatic brain injury, neuro-oncology conditions, Gullian Barrie syndrome, Myasthenia Gravis, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease and Motor Neurone Disease.
Working with Oncology Dietetic colleagues to provide a service to cancer patients, including Upper-GI cancer, covering outpatient and inpatient areas,
The post holder will be actively encouraged to participate in service improvement, audit and continuous professional development activities.
About us
We have been trainers for student dietitians for many years, with the programmes shared across all of our localities.
We are a tertiary centre for many clinical specialities including major trauma, cardiothoracic surgery, regional spinal injuries unit, upper GI surgery, head and neck/Oro maxillofacial surgery and spinal cord injuries.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions
Your Leadership Impact
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Date posted
26 March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£29,970 to £44,962 a year per annum (pro rata)
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
23 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
328-JCSM-6984707
Job locations
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Knowledge and Skills - B5/6
Essential
Qualifications - B5/6
Essential
Qualifications - B6
Essential
Qualifications - B5
Essential
Desirable
Experience - B6
Essential
Experience - B5
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge and Skills - B5/6
Essential
Qualifications - B5/6
Essential
Qualifications - B6
Essential
Qualifications - B5
Essential
Desirable
Experience - B6
Essential
Experience - B5
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.