Band 6 Inpatient Neurorehab Dietician | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Are you interested in helping patients regain nutritional status, eating and drinking skills after a brain injury? If so, we are looking for someone like you to learn from and support our Band 7 dietitian on our 32 bedded inpatient Level 1 neurorehabilitation unit (INRU), based at Moseley Hall Hospital in Birmingham.
The INRU multidisciplinary team is passionate about supporting adults with complex acquired neurological conditions to achieve their rehabilitation goals. The dietitian is held in high regard and works closely with the multidisciplinary team to assess, monitor and maintain patients’ nutrition and hydration needs, enabling complex patients to work towards their discharge destination.
Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role. You will also have opportunity to work alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding knowledge and practice.
This unique post is part of a community hospitals’ dietetic team which has good support from dietetic assistant practitioners.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities.
We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.
We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully.
• Please be aware that BCHC utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC and any correspondence will be sent via TRAC. We advise that you check your junk/spam email
This team is part of Birmingham Community Nutrition which provide a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham CCGs and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic students (A, B & C placements) from local higher education establishments.
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a comprehensive structure to support Clinical Governance and your personal development via annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.
Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us.
The post holder is expected to work with the Inpatient Dietetic Team and Highly Specialist Clinical Dietetic Lead on INRU to provide a quality nutrition and dietetic service within the inpatient neurorehabilitation service. The post holder is responsible for supporting clients on enteral feeding or oral nutrition support, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to assess, monitor and maintain patients’ nutrition and hydration needs, enabling complex patients to work towards their discharge destination.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024
The INRU multidisciplinary team is passionate about supporting adults with complex acquired neurological conditions to achieve their rehabilitation goals. The dietitian is held in high regard and works closely with the multidisciplinary team to assess, monitor and maintain patients’ nutrition and hydration needs, enabling complex patients to work towards their discharge destination.
Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role. You will also have opportunity to work alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding knowledge and practice.
This unique post is part of a community hospitals’ dietetic team which has good support from dietetic assistant practitioners.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities.
We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.
We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully.
• Please be aware that BCHC utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC and any correspondence will be sent via TRAC. We advise that you check your junk/spam email
This team is part of Birmingham Community Nutrition which provide a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham CCGs and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic students (A, B & C placements) from local higher education establishments.
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a comprehensive structure to support Clinical Governance and your personal development via annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.
Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us.
The post holder is expected to work with the Inpatient Dietetic Team and Highly Specialist Clinical Dietetic Lead on INRU to provide a quality nutrition and dietetic service within the inpatient neurorehabilitation service. The post holder is responsible for supporting clients on enteral feeding or oral nutrition support, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to assess, monitor and maintain patients’ nutrition and hydration needs, enabling complex patients to work towards their discharge destination.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024
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