Senior Specialist Dietitian

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and personal specification for full details of job and requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent in Nutrition & Dietetics
• HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

• BDA member

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of dietetics across a wide range of areas
• Experience managing surgical patients including undertaking comprehensive assessments and creating dietetic plans for new and review patients
• Experience working as part of a team and within an MDT
• Experience managing own workload
• Experience of clinical triage and assessment of referrals
• Experience of safe discharge planning including those requiring home enteral feeding

Desirable criteria

• Current or previous experience within the NHS setting (either through training or employment)
• Experience managing ITU patients including undertaking comprehensive assessments and creating dietetic plans for new and review patients
• Experience managing patients requiring parenteral nutrition
• Experience of contributing to the development and updating of policies, guidelines, patient information and other resources

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of general dietetics including relevant policies and guidelines
• Specialist knowledge of the management of surgical patients
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex and specialist medical and nutritional information
• Ability to provide specialised nutritional/dietetic information to medical staff or groups of health or other professionals

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the dietetic management of patients requiring parenteral nutrition
• Specialist knowledge of the management of ITU patients

Skills

Essential criteria

• Communication skills and ability to adapt communication style as required to a wide range of people
• IT skills including familiarity with Microsoft Office software
• Prioritisation skills to plan work on a day to day basis and look ahead
• Time management and organisation skills in order to manage own workload effectively and meet deadlines
• Ability to work as part of a team and within an MDT

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 224.6KB)
• Personal Specifications (PDF, 56.5KB)
• Functional Aspects (PDF, 160.6KB)
• L&D Hospital site map (PDF, 96.8KB)
• Disclosure & Barring Information and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 78.5KB)
• Staff Diversity Network (PDF, 140.3KB)
• Information for Disabled Applicants (PDF, 98.7KB)
• Staff Benefits (PNG, 1.6MB)