Senior Specialist Dietitian for Oncology and Surgery
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Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian with extensive experience of cancer care to join our dietetic team. This newly created band 7 post will sit within the heart of our oncology and surgical dietetic services. It will provide senior support and leadership within our inpatient and outpatient oncology services along with a number of surgical pathways.
This role will work closely with our other senior specialist dietitians for oncology, haematology and surgery to lead the day to day provision of dietetic services within these pathways. They will work collaboratively to deliver high quality patient, support service delivery, pathway development and senior support to others.
Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre (BHOC) is a tertiary cancer centre for the South West of England and provides specialist non-surgical treatment for people with cancer as well as these treatments for non-cancerous conditions. The Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) is a regional surgical hub for a number of cancer pathways across the South West.This role will work closely with colleagues to deliver the provision of inpatient oncology and surgical dietetic services.
Our outpatient oncology services provide specialist dietetic services to patients along a range of cancer pathways within the Bristol area. They link in closely with our inpatient oncology and surgical services to provide a high level of service and continuity of care.
Main duties of the job
The delivery of high quality nutritional care to a number of cancer pathways requiring complex dietary and invasive nutrition support interventions. These include complex enteral and parenteral nutrition support, discharge planning for patients with complex nutritional needs and complex therapeutic dietary interventions.
Experience of cancer care is essential. The post holder will need to be competent in the delivery of a range of complex and invasive nutrition support interventions. This role will involve close working with the wider MDT including doctors, nurses, the palliative care team, pharmacists, the nutrition team and cancer support workers, so good communication and people skills are essential.
Work collaboratively with colleague both inside and outside the Trust to drive and development dietetic services within cancer care.
As a band 7 dietitian the post will provide leadership, supervision and line management to junior colleagues.
You will be expected to undertake a role in the training of dietetic students and take part in the education of health care professionals in order to support the Trust Food Policy.
To best meet the needs of our healthcare colleagues and service users the dietetic department provides a service on Saturday, which you will be expected to contribute to once every 4 weeks. We also provide a bank holiday service, each member of staff covering 2 bank holiday dates a year.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy. Applications will be short listed against person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria- Significant clinical experience in:
- Nutritional Support/Therapy in cancer care
- Chronic Disease Management
- Enteral Nutrition Support This should include a significant period of time working in a clinical speciality at a senior level
- Working as part of a multi-professional team
- Experience of training dietetic students at all grades
- Experience of audit and/or quality assurance
- Experience of managing/supervising junior staff
- Experience of working in a multicultural setting
- Experience of producing protocols and procedures for use by others
- Experience or involvement of implementing guidance, policy
- Research and Development
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- Advanced communications skills at all levels - oral, written, interpersonal
- Good organisational skills and time management
- Teaching/presentation skills in a variety of settings and to professional groups/grades at undergraduate, postgraduate and higher degree level
- Computer skills i.e. Databases, Excel and use of dietary analysis programs
- Advanced analytical and clinical reasoning skills
- Behavioural and motivational interviewing skills
- Counselling skills
- Evidence of published own work/articles etc
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria- HCPC registration
- Degree/postgraduate qualification in nutrition and dietetics
- Evidence of extensive postgraduate training relevant to post
- Clinical supervisory skills course
- Postgraduate diploma/MSc or equivalent evidence of advanced dietetic practice
- PENG Group Clinical Update Course and/or Behaviour Change Course
- BDA membership
- Teaching qualification
- As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
- The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
- UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
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