Dietitian

Job overview

Are you looking to develop your dietetic skills working with adults with a range of conditions in the acute setting ? This post is based within the Adult Nutrition and Dietetic team in Grimsby and is the ideal place to start or develop your practice as a Band 5 Dietitian.

The post-holder will be an essential team member within the service, working alongside experienced senior Dietitians, Dietetic Assistant Practitioner, Dietetic Assistant and the wider MDT.

You will receive ongoing informal and structured support from your senior colleagues, including support to complete your Preceptorship with a view to developing knowledge and skills where required. As you progress, you will have the opportunity for a high degree of autonomy in your clinical practice and day-to-day organisation of your work, within the context of a friendly and supportive team of dietetic colleagues. You will be encouraged to participate in service developments and will be able to access excellent training and support from the Trust’s Quality Improvement team. There will also be opportunities to train other health care professionals and as your own clinical skills develop, you will become actively involved in student training with support to develop clinical supervisory skills.

Main duties of the job

Provide a high standard dietetic service undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.

Be responsible for the caseload in a defined area of the service, supervising, and allocating work to assistants and students, as delegated.

Provide advice to other health care professionals as appropriate for level of skills.

Use clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver treatment programmes.

Participate in evidence-based audit and research projects to further quality improvement in the service.

Meet with and keep to the HCPC Standards of Proficiency and Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics

Deputise for Band 6 dietitian when required.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

 “We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person specification

Occupational Experience

Essential criteria

Experience working within the acute setting

Desirable criteria

Experience in working with a wide range of client groups

Experience of delivering presentations to a range of audiences

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

Degree/Diploma in Dietetics

HCPC Registered or applied for registration (students)

Desirable criteria

Relevant accredited courses

Member of BDA
Membership of specialist interest groups

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Competent IT skills

Clinical supervisory skills / experience of supporting students

Desirable criteria

Supervision of assistant staff

Employer certification / accreditation badges