Rotational Community Dietitian Derby, England
Job description
Are you a newly qualified Dietitian or due to be finishing your student training this year, or a Dietitian waiting for HCPC registration or returning to practice? We have an exciting opportunity for 2 individuals to work in community dietetics and gain specialist experience in the field of Diabetes, Bariatrics and Renal.
The Community Dietetic service are offering new rotational posts alongside a 12-month preceptorship programme provided by the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton to help you achieve confidence within your band 5 role. One day a week you will be able to work with our Diabetes/Bariatrics/Renal dietetics teams to have experience in a specialist field early in your career.
The post will be based at Florence Nightingale Hospital within the community dietetic team and one day a week within the Royal Derby Hospital acute hospital. We are able to provide a bus pass for travel between sites. As a department we are able to offer individuals hybrid working delivering services face to face, virtually and by telephone.
Your clinical caseload will be a variety of clinics, community hospitals, care homes and training. You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of clinical conditions including malnutrition, mental health, IBS, diabetes, bariatrics and renal.
This would be an ideal role for a highly motivated individual looking for a wide variety of experience for their first role in Dietetics
You will be working as part of the Community Dietetic team, where you will be delivering dietetic services to the residents of Southern Derbyshire. You will be managing a caseload, consisting of a variety of clinical conditions.
We deliver high quality student training to Sheffield Hallam University and Nottingham University, you will be involved in the training of new dietetic students. We also have exciting opportunities for experience in service development, audits and projects.
You will be expected to work and train alongside the wider MDT, deliver training and education to a variety of patients and health care professionals. You will be able to learn from specialists within dietetics to help get early access to a specialism.
Closing date of applications: 13 April 2023
Interview date: 26 April 2023
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
- On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
- Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
- We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust – over 3,300 per week
- An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day – 6th largest in the country
- Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
- We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
- We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
- We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day
