Job description

We are excited to be recruiting to a full time, Band 7 Lead Specialist Liver Dietitian to join the adult dietetic and liver service at the Freeman Hospital. This post is for an initial 18 months and looks to develop a new specialist dietetic led outpatient liver service as well as working with the existing Lead liver dietitian in providing inpatient care. The post will involve close working with the existing regional liver service. Previous experience in liver disease is highly desirable and you must have experience in developing services.

The successful applicant will join our friendly and supportive adult department of 40 dietitians providing clinical support to patients and act as a source of expertise to the wider Multidisciplinary team including medical, nursing and allied health professionals across the trust.

The department provides A, B and C placements for dietetic students. The Trust places significant value on its dietetic services in the provision of first-class patient care, and the dietetic service enjoys a high profile with excellent multidisciplinary involvement.

• Interview Date 24/04/2023
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

The post holder will be required to

• Deliver a high quality dietetic service within the specialist area of liver disease
• Work effectively as part of the MDT
• Take part in student training and supervision
• Contribute to research and audit

You should be enthusiastic and self-motivated and will:

• Have post-registration experience in liver disease
• Have undertaken specialist training in weight management, NAFLD or liver
• Be able to demonstrate ongoing CPD and have evidence of developing practice
• Be able to support colleagues and take responsibility for the clinical supervision of junior staff and students
• Have excellent communication skills
• Be able to maintain good relationships with colleagues and the wider the MDT

As part of the wider dietetic department, ‘Newcastle Nutrition’, you will have support from colleagues at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Centre for Ageing and Vitality sites. Our Dietetic teams are enthusiastic, committed and have established a first class reputation. Newcastle Hospitals are regarded as a centre of excellence and achieved “Outstanding” in the recent CQC inspection.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, 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 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

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.

• Lead Specialist Dietitian See appendix for in depth job details.
• Provides a professional leadership role in specialist areas of dietetic practice, coaching and mentoring staff and students of any discipline.
• If appropriate to the job, role will provide day to day supervision of Dietetic Assistants, Bands 5 and 6 Dietitians.
• Provides highly specialist dietetic assessment, treatment, monitoring and management in one or more speciality areas of dietetics.
• Acts as a source of expertise in dietetics practice locally, regionally and nationally.
• Acts as a source of expertise in nutrition support and dietetics to patients, consultants and other health care professionals.
• Delivers education and training with staff at all levels.
• Contributes to designing, planning and implementing research and audit and contributes to publishing results, working in interdisciplinary teams or with other health professionals.
• Works in close association with specialist nurses/other specialised healthcare professionals in named areas in order to deliver integrated services. This may include supplementary prescribing

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.