Surgical Specialist Dietitian/Acute Team Leader

at  Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a highly specialist surgical dietitian with leadership skills?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated Dietitian to join our friendly and forward thinking Dietetic service. You will have joint acute team lead responsibilities working alongside the critical care specialist Dietitian and a clinical speciality focus in colorectal surgery.
The post holder will deliver high-quality, evidenced based care to surgical inpatients leading on the dietetic intervention to Colorectal Oncology patients on the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathway, supporting the patients journey from diagnosis to post operative recovery. Contributing to ward rounds, MDT meetings, staff training and service development as a respected MDT member, with well established links with aseptic’s and surgical ACPs.
You will have experience in complex nutrition support with a strong focus on collaborative working with medical and nursing colleagues in enteral and parenteral nutrition support. The service also benefits from oncology dietetic expertise in HAN and UGI providing individual specialist interventions.
You will lead on the dietetic input to the Nutrition MDT alongside a colorectal surgeon and gastroenterologist. Advanced nutritional assessment and intervention skills are required to optimise patient care in intestinal failure, GI disorders, malabsorption and ethical decision making in long term enteral feeding.
As a surgical expert & team lead you will have responsibility for leading, supervising and supporting the dietitians providing a service to acute hospital wards and outpatients. You will manage Band 6 surgical dietitians to collectively provide a surgical service and lead on weekly huddle, clinical supervision meetings to support discussions around complex patients and lessons learned.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.
We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children’s health.
The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.
The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.
At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.
To have lead responsible for the development, coordination and delivery of an advanced dietetic service to patients requiring colorectal surgery within MCHF, including intestinal failure and patient on the ERAS pathway.
To formulate, deliver and monitor nutritional care plans for referred patients. This would include dietetic intervention for highly complex clinical conditions supporting the entire patient journey from perioperative care through in patient admission and post-operative recovery.
To be recognised as an expert source of knowledge in the field of colorectal surgery leading on development of clinical guidelines, resources and education packages
To demonstrate strong leadership, organisational, and communication skill
To proactively support the acute dietetic service to provide high quality patient care and deliver evidence-based practice at all times

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