Band 7 Inpatient team leader at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham B13, England, United Kingdom -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

02 Jul, 25

Salary

52809.0

Posted On

02 Apr, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Good communication skills

Industry

Hospital/Health Care

Description

Inpatient Dietitian -Team Leader 0.8WTE fixed term Birmingham Community Nutrition is excited to offer an opportunity for an experienced dietitian to lead our inpatient nutritional care at Mosley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital.
You will manage a team of dietitians, dietetic assistants and apprentices while leading a dietetic inpatient service for stroke, health care of older people and rehabilitation by working in a multidisciplinary and integrated way. The post will support the strategic delivery of nutritional services providing leadership for nutrition and hydration in these areas, leading the inpatient nutrition and hydration improvement group. You will work closely with inpatient neurorehabilitation dietitian, inpatient nutrition nurse, ward matrons, AHP leads, nurses, catering staff and the wider Birmingham Community Nutrition and Dietetic team.
You will possess excellent communication skills and have experience in managing teams, developing services, quality improvement and data monitoring. You will also be experienced in audit and report writing, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the service.
Birmingham Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service have a strong national and local profile and a reputation for innovation and partnership working. We host a variety of placements for west midlands universities.
Please contact Kim Bibby for an informal discussion about the post.
Kim Bibby 0121 683 2300 / 0121 466 4186
Kimberley.bibby@nhs.net
To adhere to the standards of conduct, performance and ethics and the Dietitians’ standards of proficiency of the Health & Care Professions Council.
To be aware of your level of responsibility and accountability within the service, being guided by policies, procedures and the support of peers and to support lower grade colleagues to do the same.
To maintain a complex clinical caseload within INRU which includes liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely and cost effective nutrition support for patients who are enterally fed or on oral nutritional supplements
To plan and deliver individualised nutritional care plans based on comprehensive highly specialist assessments of needs and knowledge of evidence based practice, modifying the care plans as required
To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients clinical needs in a holistic manner using specialised clinical knowledge and skills and a broad range of nutritional assessment skills, measurements and techniques. This may include the use of dietary analysis software, anthropometric measurements, often in patients with diverse or complex nutritional and physical health needs.
Be Part of Our Team…
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

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For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specificatio

Responsibilities

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