Senior Specialist Dietitian for Stroke Rehabilitation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 1 week ago
City: Weston-super-Mare
Contract type: Full time
Senior Specialist Dietitian for Stroke Rehabilitation & Education Facilitator
Are you an experienced and highly motivated Dietitian ready to take the next steps in your dietetic career?
Are you keen to further develop specialist knowledge, leadership, service development and education facilitation knowledge and skills?
Become a Senior Specialist Dietitian at UHBW where you will play a crucial role in leading, developing and delivering high-quality nutritional care to patients within the Stroke rehabilitation and medicine pathways at Weston General Hospital (WGH) alongside taking a Trust wide lead on education facilitation within dietetics.
The Weston dietetic department are a friendly team of 18 dietitians and support workers, based at Weston General Hospital (WGH) in the beautiful coastal town of Weston-super-Mare. We are part of the wider UHBW Nutrition and Dietetic Service based at Bristol Royal Infirmary and sit within UHBW’s Adult Therapy Services. Find out more about UHBW Adult Therapies Department Careers by searching this link www.uhbwcareers.nhs.uk/therapies-careers
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We are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic and dynamic individual with excellent team-working, communication and organisational skills. The successful candidate will embrace challenges and be committed to delivering excellent patient care and leading on education to support the development of the future dietetic workforce.
This is an exciting opportunity to build on specialist clinical knowledge providing a range of nutritional interventions to a highly complex cohort of patients, alongside leadership and service development skills within stroke rehabilitation and general medicine pathways.
Additionally, this post provides a unique opportunity to lead on education facilitation for pre registration and apprenticeship placements, WEX, and the preceptorship programme. Education facilitation is envisaged to account for approximately 1 day per week of this post.
As a senior member of the dietetic team you shall have line management responsibilities and work in collaboration with the other band 7 post holders to provide day to day leadership of the team.
You will support junior staff to develop their knowledge and clinical skills in the management of patients within stroke rehabilitation and medicine pathways.
You will work across the 4 pillars of practice to achieve the shared objectives of the Nutrition and Dietetic Service and the wider Adult Therapy Service.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sian Inson Job title: Pathway Lead for Nutrition and Dietetics Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01934 647031
Are you an experienced and highly motivated Dietitian ready to take the next steps in your dietetic career?
Are you keen to further develop specialist knowledge, leadership, service development and education facilitation knowledge and skills?
Become a Senior Specialist Dietitian at UHBW where you will play a crucial role in leading, developing and delivering high-quality nutritional care to patients within the Stroke rehabilitation and medicine pathways at Weston General Hospital (WGH) alongside taking a Trust wide lead on education facilitation within dietetics.
The Weston dietetic department are a friendly team of 18 dietitians and support workers, based at Weston General Hospital (WGH) in the beautiful coastal town of Weston-super-Mare. We are part of the wider UHBW Nutrition and Dietetic Service based at Bristol Royal Infirmary and sit within UHBW’s Adult Therapy Services. Find out more about UHBW Adult Therapies Department Careers by searching this link www.uhbwcareers.nhs.uk/therapies-careers
(Cont'd Under Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities)
We are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic and dynamic individual with excellent team-working, communication and organisational skills. The successful candidate will embrace challenges and be committed to delivering excellent patient care and leading on education to support the development of the future dietetic workforce.
This is an exciting opportunity to build on specialist clinical knowledge providing a range of nutritional interventions to a highly complex cohort of patients, alongside leadership and service development skills within stroke rehabilitation and general medicine pathways.
Additionally, this post provides a unique opportunity to lead on education facilitation for pre registration and apprenticeship placements, WEX, and the preceptorship programme. Education facilitation is envisaged to account for approximately 1 day per week of this post.
As a senior member of the dietetic team you shall have line management responsibilities and work in collaboration with the other band 7 post holders to provide day to day leadership of the team.
You will support junior staff to develop their knowledge and clinical skills in the management of patients within stroke rehabilitation and medicine pathways.
You will work across the 4 pillars of practice to achieve the shared objectives of the Nutrition and Dietetic Service and the wider Adult Therapy Service.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sian Inson Job title: Pathway Lead for Nutrition and Dietetics Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01934 647031
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