Highly Specialist Dietitian - UGI Cancer services
A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Dietitian to join our friendly Upper GI (UGI) team, to lead the service providing dietetic support to patients diagnosed with UGI cancers who are managed non-surgically. You will be based mainly at Broadgreen Hospital with regular attendance at Aintree and the Royal.Upper GI Cancer services are merged across the Trust, which is the tertiary centre for UGI surgery in the Cheshire and Merseyside region.
This post is part of regional dietetic service to optimise the nutrition of non-surgical UGI patients referred to the trust with suspected Oesophageal or gastric cancer, after a successful trial period utilising funding from Cancer Alliance.You will lead this service with support from the Gastro Specialist Nurses, Gastro/UGI dietitians and a Band 4 assistant, as well as Therapy Leads.
You will work alongside the surgical UGI team, supported by the Macmillan UGI Dietitian; B7 and B6 UGI Dietitians and the Band 4 UGI Dietetic Assistant team, in providing complex dietetic support to this patient group.
We are looking for a Dietitian with excellent communication skills, the ability to work both independently and as part of an MDT and experience of working with people with complex nutritional needs.
The role involves developing, providing and evaluating outpatient services to complex non-surgical cancer patients, including assessment, treatment, and review of multifaceted, acutely ill, and palliative patients within the service. There will be collaboration with other Upper GI dietetic teams on the Cheshire and Merseyside pathway, e.g., Upper GI surgery, Oncology and community agencies.
Clinically, the role involves cover for Upper GI Cancer non-surgical outpatients, weekly dietetic telephone clinics, and weekly attendance at Upper GI MDT clinics, which also include gastroenterologists and specialist nurses.
There may also be the opportunity to deliver input to specific groups of gastro patients as the service and teams develop.
Operational responsibilities include monitoring referrals and activity, prioritising caseload as necessary, evaluating activity and responding to service demands. The Dietitian will work with the team contributing to service improvement, training, development of protocols, policies, resources, standards and audit.
We provide regular supervision, appraisals and team meetings. The Upper GI team has introduced a clinical supervision programme which includes Upper GI Dietitians working in Liverpool.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
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Please see job description attached for full details. The role is predominantly outpatient based but we are aiming to develop the inpatient service and you will play a key role in service evaluation and business case development to underpin this.
Job Purpose
To provide the clinical lead in the Trust for nutrition and dietetic service to your own specialist area. This involves:-- Personally providing the dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients
- Educating/training other members of the multi-disciplinary team in
- Clinical supervision of newly qualified staff and Band 5 and 6
- Training of Student Dietitians
- Development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines
relevant to clinical speciality.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025