We are looking for a passionate Dietitian to join our friendly, caring and forward-thinking Community Dietetics Team.
The role is based at Whiston Primary Care Resource Centre and you would part of the Community Care Division providing a dietetic service to the adult population of Knowsley and St Helens.
We welcome applications from motivated, enthusiastic, newly qualified or experienced Band 5 Dietitians as well as Dietetic students. Flexible working will be considered. The ability to travel in the community between St Helens and Knowsley Is essential.
This post holder will provide nutritional care within a variety of settings including outpatient clinics, care homes and patients own homes. You will manage a diverse clinical caseload incorporating nutritional support, frailty, chronic diseases, oncology, neurology, and gastrointestinal disorders. This post will provide excellent experience in adult community dietetics with the opportunity to gain further knowledge in the areas of home enteral feeding and paediatrics .
You will be fully supported by your clinical supervisors with regular supervision sessions as well as joining the Trust's AHP Preceptorship programme .We also have a well-established student training programme which you will be actively involved in to develop your clinical supervisory skills.
Professional development is given a high priority within the department with CPD fully encouraged and supported by the Trust.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Tonge Job title: Team Lead Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07385414646
