Dietitian

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are a diverse service and have an enthusiastic dietetic team which covers the whole of the county. This includes working with the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital) where we work in a range of clinical areas and also input into a range of primary care services. We have specialist roles in paediatrics, renal, diabetes, weight management, stroke, oncology, critical care and nutritional support, home enteral feeding and prescribing to support your role development and you will have the opportunity to be involved in student training.

• an inpatient caseload in Northampton General Hospital or Kettering General Hospital which make up the newly formed University Hospitals of Northamptonshire
• input into outpatient clinics where you will see a wide range of referrals
• provide training to health care staff
• input into the community care home and prescribing service
• input into the pre-registration training of dietetic students
• service improvement projects and producing and updating resources
  NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
  NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
  For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document