Specialist Critical Care Dietitian
Job overview
Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a 0.5 WTE Band 7 Specialist Critical Care Dietitian to join our Frimley Park Hospital team - his is an on-site role. The successful applicant will work alongside our ICU Dietitian as part of the MDT, have line management responsibilities and support the leadership of the department by linking with the dietetic services across Frimley Health Foundation Trust.This is a great opportunity to develop and practice skills and knowledge within this expertise.
Our department is a dynamic, well-established team with dietitians working in specialities such as; paediatrics, surgery, intensive care, respiratory, cardiac, oncology, gastroenterology, and stroke rehabilitation. The department has a focus on working together as a team and supporting colleagues in their training and development.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job- To be responsible for delivering dietetic services for critical care patients/unit within Frimley Park Hospital.
- To support service development, update and implement guidelines to set and monitor standards of practice as required.
- To act as a specialist resource for the Critical Care multi-disciplinary team and Dietitians within Frimley Health Foundation Trust
- To take a lead role and be responsible for the advanced assessment, treatment and management of patients on Critical Care and associated paperwork. These patients have highly complex and/or chronic presentation.
- To undertake evidence based projects, including recommendations for changes in practice and to develop research and audit in this clinical area.
- To provide an effective high quality service within the critical care speciality and take a lead role in supporting and teaching other department Dietitians as required.
- To provide an assessment, treatment and management of patients within other specialities during periods of annual leave and other specialities on a required basis.
- To contribute to continued development, efficiency and safety of dietetic department.
- To be flexible in times of increased capacity to the service.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description, person specification and job addendum for further details on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Recognised degree in nutrition and dietetics
- HCPC registration
- Critical care nutrition courses
- BDA specialist group member
Experience
Essential criteria- Post registration clinical dietetic experience in oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition in critical care
- Experience of audit/research
- Experience presenting and training
Skills
Essential criteria- MDT working
- Good comunication
- Organisation
- Problem solver
- Leadership experience
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.