Lead Dietitian for Acute Adult Services

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen to join the Department of Nutrition and dietetics at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. We are looking to recruit a Lead Dietitian for Acute Adult Services to joint manage the leadership within our acute team. The post holder will work along side another lead to operationally and clinically support of team. The post holder will have a clinical caseload of complex nutritional support patients which will include enteral and parenteral feeding across multiple medical and surgical specialties. The post holder will have clinical and operational leadership within the team and support pathway development. You will play a key role in improving corporate nutrition and hydration practices in as part of our Nutrition Ambition and Harm Free care delivery plans. You will be a key member of our Nutrition Steering Group and support Non-oral Feeding Group.

You will have opportunities to further develop your leadership and management skills as a deputy to UHNM Chief Dietitian.

You will join a department of over 70 dietitians, dietetic assistants and supportive admin team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry and complex acute caseload, you will clinically and provide operational leadership to a designated workforce of registered Dietitians, Dietetic Assistants and Dietetic learners. This will include aspects of recruitment, professional development, absence management. Ensuring team practice is in line with HCPC and organisational standards of practice.

The post holder will have responsibility for guiding and supporting the development of the team, ensuring safe clinical practice, this will include initiating and supporting continuous service improvement.

Act as Deputy to Chief Dietitian UHNM as required at Trust Corporate and system level as required.

Key stakeholder in Nutrition Steering Group and non oral feeding group and support the Enteral Feed contract, procurement and monitoring.

Work Closely with peer Chief Dietitian adopting best, safe, efficient working practices across the adult acute team services

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Royal Stoke University Hospital

Newcastle Road

Stoke on Trent

ST4 6QG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk

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