Job Overview
Frimley Health Foundation Trust is seeking a
Band 6 Senior Surgical Dietitian for a
part-time, 10 month fixed-term position until July 2026 .
You will work closely with the surgical team lead, nutrition team and multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred dietetic care across our surgical wards, including; upper and lower GI surgery, vascular surgery, colorectal, hepatobiliary and ICU step-down patients. The role involves nutritional assessment and management of complex surgical patients including enteral and parenteral nutrition support.
Frimley Health’s dietetic team is a supportive and well-established department covering
12 specialties. The Trust places high value on
wellbeing, supervision, and professional development, offering a positive and collaborative work environment with access to
internal and external learning opportunities.
Main duties of the job
- To provide assessment, treatment and management of surgical inpatients
- To autonomously run a monthly outpatient clinic
- Assess and manage patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition, including involvement of MDT and nutrition team in decision making
- Liaise closely with MDT
- Support service development and audit initiatives within the surgical team
- Deliver training and education to ward staff and students
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To be involved with the advanced assessment, treatment and management of complex patients on the surgical caseload and service development within this areas. Please refer to attached job description for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at student supervision training
- Attendance of relevant accredited courses
- Member of BDA
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
- Problem solving
- Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings
- Good communications and interpersonal skills
- Managing sensitive issues or communication
- Apply evidence-based practice into clinical dietetics
- Working autonomously and within a team
Desirable criteria
- Some basic management skills
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience in dietetics
- Audit or quality improvement work
- Experienced in all aspects of adult nutrition support – oral nutrition support, enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Training of student, junior colleagues and health care professionals
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise within a wide range of clinical dietetics
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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