Acute Team Lead Dietitian
Job overview
The Nutrition and Dietetic Service at Lister Hospital offers an opportunity for a dietitian to join their adult team. You will jointly provide leadership, management and mentorship for the acute dietitians alongside another lead whilst retaining a clinical caseload.You will also assist in facilitating student training.
You will provide a service to parenterally and enterally fed patients and the intensive care unit and contribute to a weekly nutrition round as part of an MDT.
In addition, you will have a small home enteral feeding caseload working closely with other members of the team, as well as enteral feeding nurses to deliver a specialist service to patients in their own homes and care homes.
This position is part of a larger team of Dietitians serving Hertfordshire, spanning various specialties e.g. paediatrics, neurology, and oncology. We collaborate with other Trusts and stakeholders to provide comprehensive dietetic care to patients in Hertfordshire.
We offer support for your professional development, including appraisal, mentoring, and training opportunities. Contributing to the training of student dietitians from the University of Hertfordshire is another rewarding aspect of this role.
Our service is backed by a team of administrators and dietetic assistants, and there are excellent IT facilities to facilitate mobile working.
We communicate interview arrangements with applicants via email. Please check the email address you provide on your application.
Main duties of the job- Lead the acute dietetic team along side another lead to deliver a dietetic service to Lister Hospital.
- Provide mentorship for the acute team and participate in appraisals.
- Attend MDT meetings, building relationships with the wider multidisciplinary team whilst promoting the service.
- Hold a clinical caseload and cover in times of staff absence.
- Participate in the planning and delivery of student training.
- Assist in resource and policy development.
- Participate in / facilitate audit and development.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities- To lead, manage and supervise a team of acute dietitians working with adults at Lister Hospital. To support other Dietetic staff working within Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.
- To have responsibility whilst working as a job share, to organise and deliver a comprehensive highly specialised clinical dietetic service at Lister Hospital
- To contribute on issues related to nutrition with the relevant multidisciplinary teams.
- To provide clinical leadership, collaborating with stakeholders and peers, and represent the Nutrition and Dietetic Service on working parties associated with this.
- To work as an independent practitioner using a specialist level of knowledge and skills in the provision of a dietetic service to a caseload of inpatients, including contributing to Nutrition ward round.
- To work as an independent practitioner using a specialist level of knowledge and skills in the provision of a dietetic service to a small caseload of adults on home enteral nutrition across East and North Hertfordshire
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics degree or equivalent
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Attained or working towards a postgraduate qualification in a specialist area or evidence of significant experience in a specialist area
- Evidence of management training
- Member of British Dietetic Association
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria- Evidence of working with complex patients in an acute setting
- Evidence of relevant clinical experience in a range of settings
- Experience of working with patients in the outpatient setting
- Evidence of collaborative working
- Evidence of CPD and commitment to life -long learning
- Experience of working in a multi -disciplinary health care setting
- Experience in audit and the analysis and interpretation of data
- Experience of management and leadership
- Experience of student training and delivering undergraduate student supervision
- Evidence of experience of developing guidelines / protocols & training / teaching health care professionals
- Experience of managing projects
- Up to date knowledge of dietetic practice
- Experience working with enterally and parenterally fed patients
- Experience working in complex units such as stroke and intensive care
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria- IT literate
- Demonstrate an awareness of current relevant research
- Excellent organisation and time management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to liaise and negotiate
- Leadership qualities
- Ability to think strategically
- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance and others
- Good motivational skills
- Able to maintain judgement under pressure
- Ability to interpret clinical policies and guidelines within a highly specialist field to meet the needs of own client group
- Ability to use own initiative and work independently
- Effective problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
Personal qualities
Essential criteria- Team player
- Flexible and adaptable
- Commitment to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice
Other requirements
Essential criteria- Willingness to uphold the Trust’s values
- Eligible to live and work in the UK