Senior Oncology and Outpatient Dietitian

Job Overview

Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a Band 6 Senior Oncology & Outpatient Dietitian for 36 hours per week fixed term until July 2026.

The postholder will work within the speciality of oncology, providing dietetic advice for patients with cancer on the Chemotherapy Unit, inpatient wards and telephone reviews, as well as general outpatient clinics. This role will involve some face-to-face clinics but opportunities to work remotely will likely be available.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and knowledge within this specialism. The successful applicant will develop strong links with multiple oncology multi-disciplinary teams and the wider dietetics team across Frimley Health Foundation Trust. They will also be encouraged and supported to work on audit and quality improvement projects relating to their role to promote service development.

Our department is a well-established team with dietitians working across many specialities. Our department values each individual within the team by supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision. We strongly encourage continued professional development and support many internal and external opportunities for learning.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical oncology speciality within in and outpatient settings such as; haematology ward, chemotherapy unit, consultant led clinics, telephone clinics.
• Be responsible for providing specialist dietetic advice for patients with complex clinical conditions within tumour groups, such as; breast as well as gynaecology, lung, colorectal, haematology, renal and some upper gastro-intestinal cancers.
• Lead on patient related activity on haematology ward, cancer education and training
• Clinical skills in management of cancer and treatment related symptoms including oral and enteral feeding methods, and discharge processes.
• Co-ordinating discharges for oncology patients requiring home enteral nutrition
• Attendance at Lung MDT meetings
• Establishing the role of the Dietitian as a core member of cancer teams and be the expert resource within the multi-disciplinary team
• Attendance and contribution to oncology related meetings; cross-site oncology dietitians, CNS, AHP and Navigator meetings
• Development and provision of resources used within oncology speciality
  
  

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 the attached job description and person specification for further details regarding the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• HCPC Registration
• Evidence of CPD
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Student supervision training
• Membership of specialist interest group
• Attended post-qualification training within speciality
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Complex nutrition support experience, acute and outpatient
• Audit/QI experience
• Experience of training staff
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Research experience
• Leadership experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good organisation/prioritisation skills
• Good communication skills
• Good presentation skills
• MDT Working skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• 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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