Renal Specialist Dietitian, Band 6
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview- 6 WTE (Permanent, part time flexible working also considered) Joining Incentive payment £2000 pro rata (terms and conditions apply).
You’ll work on the renal wards at Gloucestershire Hospitals, lead outpatient clinics, provide support at haemodialysis centres, and care for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Collaborate with specialist nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, and consultants to deliver holistic, patient-centred care.
This is an opportunity to join a supportive and friendly team of 7 consultants, specialist nurses, AHPs, and expert renal dietitians who are dedicated to delivering the highest standard of nutritional care for complex renal patients. We are supportive of career development, offering dietitians the opportunity to undertake the supplementary prescribing course.Engage in renal research, including the PHOSPHATE trial, contribute to service development and quality improvement projects.
The proposed interview date is 17th June
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide complex dietetic care to renal patients in a variety of settings. You will require excellent interpersonal skills including observation and active listening skills alongside excellent verbal communication skills.You will work closely with the renal MDT, needing to work as part of a team and liaise with professionals at all levels. The successful candidate will need to be self-motivated and flexible to prioritise your own workload and be assertive in your time management.
The role provides opportunities to develop dietetic skills in a specialist area, working with a very experienced and dynamic team of renal dietitians. We encourage and support audit, research and contribution to service development within the dietetic department and the renal service.You would also be involved in supervising staff and students. Some travel may be required.
We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time or flexible working arrangements. Apply today and become part of a transformative and inspiring team!
Working for our organisation
With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. Providing acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, as well as outpatient clinics and some surgery services from community hospitals throughout Gloucestershire.Our department is a large, friendly team operating across two sites, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Our renal service is proud to serve approximately 250 haemodialysis patients across three centres (two in Gloucester and one in the Forest of Dean), 40 peritoneal dialysis patients, and nephrology clinics countywide.
We are proud to include a diverse range of specialists, including our Home Enteral Feeding Team. At Gloucester, our department consists of Acute Dietitians, Paediatric Dietitians, and the Home Enteral Feeding Team, while at Cheltenham, we have a dedicated Oncology Dietitian team alongside the Acute team.Across both sites, we also feature a Nutrition Support Team, a Specialist Gastroenterology Team, and Specialist Diabetes Dietitians. Our multidisciplinary teams are made up of dietitians, support workers, dietetic assistants, and nurses, all working collaboratively to provide exceptional care.
Located in Gloucestershire, our hospitals are set in a beautiful part of the country, surrounded by areas of outstanding natural beauty. Gloucestershire offers both a great place to live and work!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be directly responsible to the GRH Dietetic Service Lead, working alongside the renal team leads and the rest of the renal dietetic team.
You will be working to plan, implement and monitor high quality nutritional care to patients with complex renal needs in the inpatient and outpatient settings, including dialysis units.
You will be actively involved in the supervision, education and development of designated Band 5 staff and also contribute to the training of A, B & C students each year. Please see the job description and person specification for more details.
For further details please contact June Beharry Joint Service Lead GRH 422 5506
Person specification
Qualifications experience
Essential criteria- Appropriate NHS experience
- HCPC registered
- Degree in Dietetics
- Attendance on relevant accredited courses
- Demonstrate contribution to developing strategy and outcomes that have resulted in improvements
- Training and /or demonstrated experience in Leadership and Development
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in renal dietetics
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge in decision making all types of enteral/ parenteral feeding
- Demonstrate experience of involvement in service development
- Demonstrate contribution to treatment pathways and outcomes that have resulted in improvements
- Develop and deliver training materials to a variety of audiences
- Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible
- Experience of effective working relationship within a team/ teams
- Prioritise workloads
- Implement evidence-based practice.
- Be responsible for clinical supervision of junior staff and students
- Experience in implementing clinical governance
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening, caring and empathy skills and can relate well to staff and patients.
- Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening skills.
- Ability to assess individuals with complex medical problems and to plan their dietetic care
- Ability to make decision regarding change of practice based on clinical evidence and to disseminate same to other health professionals
- Able to implement research evidence based practice and apply to practice for continuous service improvement
- Ability to problem-solve.
- To demonstrate Trust required behaviours in working towards Individual, Department, Divisional and Trust Objectives/Goals.
- The ability to manage change and conflict to ensure resolutions with positive outcomes.
- Evidence of Continued CPD, including evidence of reflective practice, service evaluation and utilisation of best practice.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel
- Ability to work outside normal working hours, including occasional evenings if the service requires.
- Able to travel to other hospital sites and community locations.
- Can cope with working across sites in a busy and changing environment with ability to remain calm & in control during busy phases
- Willing to lead change.
- Desire to deliver a high-quality service.
- The ability to inspire, influence, persuade and negotiate.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals
- Professional attitude to routine/non-routine tasks.
- To maintain professional appearance and behaviours in the workplace
- Experience of handling difficult & sensitive situations well
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.
Committed to safeguarding our community
If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary.Please contact [email protected] for further information.
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