Senior Surgical Dietitian

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a fixed-term Band 6 Senior Surgical Dietitian. The post-holder will work within the acute adult team covering surgical wards and also a caseload of complex medical patients at Frimley Park Hospital. This is a fixed term, part-time role for 8 months, with the potential to extend.
The successful applicant will work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary team, support the development of the surgical department, raise the dietetic profile at clinical governance groups, train healthcare professionals and link with the dietetic services across Frimley Health Foundation Trust. This is a great opportunity to develop and practice skills and knowledge within this expertise e.g. training on parenteral nutrition skills.
Our department is a well-established team with dietitians working within 12 specialities. Our department values each individual within the team by supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, which creates a supportive team environment. We have a focus on encouraging continued professional development by providing internal and external opportunities for learning.
In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong EDI culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contributes to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population.
To provide assessment, treatment and management of surgical and complex medical inpatients
To provide an effective high-quality service to all in and outpatients
To act as a specialist resource for the medical/surgical team and Dietitians
To be responsible for service development, implement policy and policy changes and to set and monitor standards of practice
To undertake evidence-based projects, including recommendations and to develop audit and research in this area
To be flexible in times of increased capacity to the service
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
To be involved with the advanced assessment, treatment and management of complex patients on the medical and surgical caseload and service development within these areas. Please refer to attached job description for further details

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