Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a Specialist Band 7 Dietitian to cover Cystic Fibrosis and Neonatal services during a maternity cover at Wexham Park Hospital .
This role will lead the dietetic care for paediatric cystic fibrosis for in and outpatients at Wexham Park Hospital. You will be responsible for the dietary assessment of patients as well as appropriate and timely intervention. The role includes leading on the Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes screening and working closely with the diabetes team if treatment is needed. Multi-disciplinary team working will be required across tertiary centres, adult cystic fibrosis centres and diabetes team as a central component to the nutritional assessment and management of this speciality. Travel to clinics offsite is required for the role.
The neonatal role will continue the development of the service by embedding the dietetic role within the MDT, contributing towards key performance indicators, building an AHP network, and determining how the dietetic demand can be met.
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.
leading on neonatal and paediatric cystic fibrosis services for dietetics
specialist assessment, treatment and interventional dietetic plans
networking with AHPs
working closely with multi-disciplinary teams
attendance at neonatal MDT meetings
attendance at CF MDT clinics which occur on Tuesday afternoons
education with patient and families/carers
meeting key performance indicators for services
collating and reporting on data for specialist services
improving service delivery through audit and quality improvement
support paediatric dietetic services and training of student and junior colleagues
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
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