Specialist Dietitian (Phyllis Tuckwell)
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 8 hours ago
City: Camberley
Contract type: Part time
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust for a 0.19 WTE Band 7 Specialist Dietitian for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. This is a part time role of 7 hours per week.
The post holder will primarily focus on managing malnutrition in the Hospice community setting, working closely with the Multi-disciplinary team. This role will be the lead specialist for the Hospice dietetic service and will involve both individual nutrition assessments and group presentations.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and knowledge within this specialism and you will also be encouraged and supported to work on audit and quality improvement projects relating to the service. This role may include some line management responsibilities.
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.
This position is fixed term until July 2026 with the potential to be extended/made permanent. Flexible work options would be considered.
Main duties of the job
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 generic Band 7 Specialist Dietitian job description and person specification attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
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.
Apply online now
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust for a 0.19 WTE Band 7 Specialist Dietitian for Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. This is a part time role of 7 hours per week.
The post holder will primarily focus on managing malnutrition in the Hospice community setting, working closely with the Multi-disciplinary team. This role will be the lead specialist for the Hospice dietetic service and will involve both individual nutrition assessments and group presentations.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and knowledge within this specialism and you will also be encouraged and supported to work on audit and quality improvement projects relating to the service. This role may include some line management responsibilities.
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.
This position is fixed term until July 2026 with the potential to be extended/made permanent. Flexible work options would be considered.
Main duties of the job
- Lead specialist for Hospice Dietetic Service
- To lead on service development
- To lead on relevant activities/projects
- To provide assessment, treatment and management of patients within Phyllis Tuckwell who require nutrition support
- To provide specialist advice, support training and practical resources for the management of malnutrition, including nutritional screening, food fortification and the appropriate use of prescribed nutritional supplements
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.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the generic Band 7 Specialist Dietitian job description and person specification attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised degree in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- Advanced communication course e.g. Advanced counselling skills, Motivational interviewing, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Member of BDA
- Active member of special interest clinic group
- Evidence of further postgraduate study up to MSc level or equivalent
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within the speciality or other relevant experience
- Experience of MDT working
- Leadership experience
- Experience of student supervision
- Experience of community/palliative care
Essential criteria
- Time management and workload prioritisation skills
- Effective written/oral communication skills
- Training/education/facilitation skills
- Negotiating/influencing/counselling skills
- Management/supervision skills
- Problem solving/innovation skills
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.
Apply online now
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