Dietitian

Job Overview

Frimley Health Foundation Trust has a exciting vacancy for a Band 5 Dietitian to join our acute team at Frimley Park Hospital on a fixed term contract until September 2026. The hours are 35.25 per week over 5 days with the potential to increase to full time (37.5 hours per week).

The caseload will have allocated core wards within the hospital and include an outpatient clinic. This post is part of a Band 5 structured learning programme and the successful applicant will have the opportunity to develop knowledge in specialist dietetic areas such as; gastroenterology and surgery to name a few.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to the student training and training commitment to other healthcare professionals which will provide the opportunity to develop teaching and presentation skills.

This vacancy is open to newly qualified applicants or those who are in the final stages of completing their qualifications and are awaiting their HCPC registration.

At our trust we offer a preceptorship program to staff newly recruited into the NHS system. This will optimise your transition into the workplace, offering you regular mentorship and support through your first year working at Frimley Health. This program will ensure you are looked after by the trust and within your team.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for the treatment of a designated clinical caseload and associated paperwork
• To help supervise dietetic assistants and student Dietitians
• To contribute to the continued development, efficiency and safety in the dietetic department
• To participate in CPD and other departmental activity
• To be flexible at 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

This role will be responsible for the treatment of a designated clinical caseload and associated paperwork. Please refer to job description and person specification for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Recognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics
• HCPC registration
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Successful completion of clinical placement in an NHS setting or equivalent
• Recent relevant clinical experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing enteral feeding patients in an acute setting
• Nutrition support experience in a hospital
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• MDT working
• Organisational skills
• Keyboard skills and computer literacy
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Presentation skills
• Basic management skills
  
  

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.

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