Specialist Dietitian or Graduate Dietitian - Manchester, United Kingdom - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Here you'll enrich your career in one of the largest NHS Trusts in England.

You'll be a highly valued member of our amazingly diverse seventy strong dietetic team, who make a real difference across 4 hospital sites.

Based at Wythenshawe Teaching Hospital, you'll be close to vibrant Manchester, enjoying its culture and excellent transport links whilst working in the relatively calm surroundings of a suburban hospital.

You & your patients will benefit from the biggest electronic record system & innovative online patient portal.

We will work together to improve the services provided to our local community & those accessing our regional specialist services.

Why not contribute by writing an article for our health & wellbeing newsletter, presenting at a CPD event, or supporting the preregistration training programme.

Want more opportunities, consider the career paths of your colleagues who have accessed research training, undertaken a non-medical prescribing course, advanced their clinical competencies, developed their leadership skills, & expanded their educator abilities.

Beginning your band 6 competencies or wanting to advance them, we can support your aspirations.
As a gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery dietitian you'll build a strong rapport with patients.

Supporting their nutritional needs during a hospital visit for severe and often distressing complaints for instance, a high output stoma, short bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal obstruction/perforation, decompensated liver disease, or IBD flare.

During outpatient consultations, you'll assist patients with their recovery & in the management of other chronic conditions such as a functional bowel disorder, coeliac disease, pancreatitis or bile acid malabsorption.

Have a recognised dietetics degree or equivalent & registered with the HCPC you'll assess the nutritional condition of patients, make dietetic diagnoses, give therapeutic treatment options, & provide evidenced-based tailored advice.

Your advanced communication skills will produce records achieving national & local standard.

A valued member of multi-disciplinary services, you'll work with highly skilled specialist nurses, doctors, speech & language therapists, & psychiatrists.

What's more, after 12 months in your band 6 role you may opt to join our band 6 speciality exchange programme, with the possibility to expand your knowledge & skills in other fields.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of 2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts.

We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.

What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.

If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at

Degree/ Post Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Dietitian

Higher degree or advanced diploma in Dietetics
Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition Group Clinical Update Course or equivalent Advanced Dietetic approved course
Clinical supervisory student training course & regular involvement in student training and assessment
Sound knowledge of clinical dietetics including anthropometric measurement, biochemical interpretation & devising highly complex nutritional treatment plans
Participation in continuing professional development to ensure evidence based practice

Advanced communication motivation, questioning & listening skills (completion of advanced counselling skills course)
Able to prioritise work load & projects
Good computer skills
Demonstrate Leadership Qualities

European Computer Driving License
Appraisal Training / experience

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Wythenshawe Hospital