Dietitian, Band 5

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

1.00 WTE Band 5 Dietitian Permanent
An opportunity has arisen for a new graduate, (currently registered/ imminently awaiting HCPC registration,) or candidates with greater experience who want to enhance their skills. This post has the potential to rotate. You may be working in acute and/or community settings to including in/outpatient clinical areas, covering acute medical or surgical with opportunities to work in critical care, Nutritional Support Team, oncology, diabetes, renal, paediatrics’ or home enteral feeding. We offer preceptorship framework to help and guide you into your new position.
Based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital or Cheltenham General Hospital you will be supported by band 6 and 7 Dietitians.
This role provides a great start, or development, of your dietetic career. We are a large, friendly department offering experience in many areas to enable you to progress into the area of dietetics that you choose to pursue.
See the full job description attached for further details, informal enquiries are very welcome.
Experienced within the NHS on all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds and enteral feeds is essential.
We are looking for looking for excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening alongside excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
You will need to work as part of a team and liaise with professional at all levels, to prioritise your workload be flexible and assertive.
We are a large friendly department based on 2 sites; Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) & Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH).
Within the department at GRH we have a team of Renal Dietitians, Paediatric Dietitians plus a Home Enteral Feed Team. At CGH we have a team of Oncology Dietitians plus the Acute team. We also have a Nutrition Team, a Specialist Gastroenterology Team and Specialist Diabetes dietitians working on both hospital sites.
Gloucestershire is a great area of the country in which to live in with many areas of outstanding natural beauty, as well as excellent transport networks to the rest of the country.
Reasonably priced hospital accommodation may be available.
You will be directly responsible to the Team Lead/Advanced Practitioner for Nutritional Support and based on either the Gloucester or Cheltenham site. You will be working to deliver, planning and monitoring high quality nutritional care and education to patients with complex nutrition support needs to inpatients, outpatients or within the home dependent on which specialist team you are based in.
You will be actively involved in the supervision, education and development of designated Band 5 staff and also contribute to the training of A, B & C students each year..
For further details please contact June Beharry Lead Dietitian GRH or Fiona Brown Lead Dietitian CGH 0300 422 550

Please refer the Job description for details