dietitian Nottingham, England
Job description
Band 7
- Full time
- Part time
Job overview
Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a team and influence the future provision of the children's dietetic services within children's home enteral feeding team based at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent 1WTE Team Leader and clinical lead within the speciality of home enteral feeding . The successful candidate will have an operational leadership role in the provision and development of a commissioned dietetic services , leading a team of around 6 specialist children's dietitians based within the wider team of around 23 dietitians , assistants ,nurses coordinators and administrative support . We are looking for an experienced, proactive dietitian with excellent communication, team-working and leadership skills.
Main duties of the job
Your clinical caseload will be providing dietary advice and nutritional support for infants , children and young adults across Nottinghamshire who require enteral feeding . You will also be the clinical and team lead for the dietitians working within the team .
You will provide operational and clinical leadership to other dietitians assistants ,technicians, coordinators and administrative staff within the home enteral feeding service . As a team leader you will provide operational leadership to the team and within speciality areas within dietetics to ensure effective and efficient service delivery, promote staff development and wellbeing, as well as providing expert knowledge and support for dietetic colleagues and for the management team.
This job will require working with inpatients therefore you will be required to wear the appropriate level of PPE.
Working for our organisation
The NUH dietetic department comprises of around 140 staff including assistants and technicians providing dietetic and nutrition support across all areas of the Trust and beyond.
As a large acute teaching hospital over two main sites, NUH has a range of fantastic opportunities for staff to develop their careers within the NHS. The Dietetic service is part of the Therapies and Rehabilitation Services pathway, which is one of the pathways that together make up the Clinical Support Division at NUH. We are a diverse pathway of AHPs and support staff, employing over 600 staff who work together to deliver high quality care.
We are committed to continuing professional development for all our staff through a range of opportunities that include recognised training courses, involvement in service development and audit. We have close links with the University of Nottingham, and take student dietitians for their placements.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced dietitian with relevant clinical experience, leadership skills, excellent communication skills and a flexible approach to take forward this part of the dietetic service. Higher education (i.e. MSc level or above) is desirable. You will gain experience in management with the support from other team leaders and dietetic manager. Please refer to the job description attached.
Main responsibilities:
To lead the team in the operational management of the therapy service and contribute to the strategic development of the service.
To take responsibility for highly developed clinical reasoning in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients who may have a complex presentation and to determine clinical diagnosis and therapy management.
To monitor the performance of all staff within the team.
To ensure high standards of clinical care within the team, through the training and development of staff.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced dietitian with relevant clinical experience, leadership skills, excellent communication skills and a flexible approach to take forward this part of the dietetic service. Higher education (i.e. MSc level or above) is desirable. You will gain experience in management with the support from other team leaders and dietetic manager. Please refer to the job description attached.
Main responsibilities:
To lead the team in the operational management of the therapy service and contribute to the strategic development of the service.
To take responsibility for highly developed clinical reasoning in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients who may have a complex presentation and to determine clinical diagnosis and therapy management.
To monitor the performance of all staff within the team.
To ensure high standards of clinical care within the team, through the training and development of staff.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the service provided and ensure improvements are implemented (in liaison with the Therapy Services Manager).
To be responsible for identifying training needs of yourself and your team in line with Trust and Departmental objectives. To ensure that staff are aware of the need to maintain ongoing competence of all staff undertaking out of hours work where applicable. To provide training and support to cover out of hours work within your area.
In addition to the above summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered
- Requires specialist knowledge for area of responsibility
- Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty (eg either obtained MSc or completed modules
- Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD
Desirable criteria
- Higher Qualification (MSC or above)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post graduate experience, including wide exposure to different specialties and/or experiences at Band 6 in relevant specialty
- Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff to maximize workforce potential
- Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking
- Experience in use of appropriate outcome measures
Desirable criteria
- Previous Experiece as a team leader dietitian
- Experiece of working in different clinical settings
Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Participation and leading /organising in-service training programmes
- Presention skills to groups of up to 25
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
- Able to communicate complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
- To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff
- Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures
Analytical and judgement
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options.
- Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
- Assess and manage risk in own area
- Evaluation of clinical and non-clinical interventions of self and your team
- Ability to collate information to identify trends and inform service development e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats.
- Ability to prepare annual review of services
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload of your self and your team, including daily tasks and longer term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities
- Effective delegation
Physical skill
Essential criteria
- Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data
- Ability to use a range of medical devices, some of which require dexterity and accuracy
Other
Essential criteria
- Undertake out of hours duties as required. Maintain competence in nutritional support skills
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