Role Summary
- To provide a high quality, evidence based dietetic service to medical out/inpatients, support their safe and timely discharge and facilitate with the smooth transition of their care and rehabilitation plans
- To manage own caseload and to provide a high standard of assessment, management, treatment and advice to meet the needs of patients
- To work collaboratively with colleagues in health, social care, local authority and other agencies to meet the needs of patients
- To ensure the efficient and effective use of resources available within the team
- To work with other members of the multidisciplinary team and dietetic team to develop performance /outcome measures for both the patients and service and consider ways of service improvement to provide an efficient, effective and responsive service.
- To ensure Clinical Governance is integral to service delivery within the speciality area
- The role is to support and manage less experienced staff and students
About the Role
We will work with you to help you be the best version of you at work.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, physiotherapy, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
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More detail about the role
We are looking for a forward thinking, enthusiastic, flexible and innovative team player to join our Nutrition and Dietetic team at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Your role will be to provide an inpatient and outpatient dietetic service to medical areas in particular supporting respiratory, neurology and adult eating disorders. You will attend multidisciplinary team meetings to increase the profile of nutrition and develop nutritional interventions to enhance outcomes. You will sustain, develop and initiate evidence based nutritional practice.
You will work as an integral member of the acute adult team which consists of 3 band 5 dietitians, 3.4 band 6 dietitians, 1 dietetic assistant practitioner and is led by 1 band 7 dietitian.
An essential component of your role will involve audit, delivery of education sessions and developing and implementing dietetic outcome measures further. You will be involved in the management, supervision and support of band 5 dietitians and the dietetic assistant practitioner, participate in the training of dietetic students undertaking B and C placements and other health care professionals including medical students undertaking Specialist Study Units.
You will be part of a wider dietetic team of 28 dietitians including specialists in, paediatrics, oncology, intestinal failure, CF, community and renal, 1 dietetic support worker, 1 assistant practitioner and 1 diet and exercise assistant practitioner. The department has good integrated services with other AHP’s and is committed to personal development supporting each dietitians potential for growth.
Exeter is a small city that packs a big punch, it is one of the most vibrant, attractive and historically interesting cities in England. When it comes to culture Exeter is renowned in the south west for its independent arts scene. It is also firmly on the map as a destination for top sporting events and music and is the food capital of the south west.
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday
Interview Date: TBC
For further information please contact Beth Thompson, Acute Team Lead Dietitian, on 01392 408485 or beth.thompson2@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
