Oncology Dietitian - Liverpool, United Kingdom - The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Are you looking for an opportunity to champion and drive forward nutrition and dietetics in cancer and palliative care?

Do you believe that addressing nutritional needs has a positive impact on the outcome of cancer?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified dietitian to join the dietetic team at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a newly created post to expand our dietetic team.

You will be working as part of the wider AHP team to help provide specialist dietetic services to a variety of patients with cancer.

If you want to be part of a fantastic team and help support the Trust with our vision for providing the best cancer care in the country, then we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a HCPC registered dietitian with good general and nutrition support experience and preferably some experience or an active interest in oncology dietetics.

Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are essential, as is the ability to work as part of a team and also on your own initiative.

In conjunction with the Band 7 Oncology Dietitians and the Nutrition
Nurse Practitioner, to provide, monitor and plan oncology dietetic
services as part of the Allied Health Professionals Team liaising and working closely with all members of the multi
professional team to provide a high standard of care.

Oncology Dietitian

Full time 37.5 hrs/week

To provide a comprehensive high quality dietetic service to patients

receiving care from Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.

To participate in audit and research and contribute to the standards

development pertaining to nutrition and dietetics.

To provide expert knowledge, education, advice and support to

healthcare professionals as part of the management of people with cancer.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.

Our flagship specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool opened in June 2020, supported by our hospital on the Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care, and our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree Hospital site.

Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside's district hospitals, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies.

We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service; are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region's Teenage and Young Adult Unit, (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust).

Working with leading experts from The University of Liverpool and the Cancer Research UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments than ever before.

To act as part of the dietetic team to provide specialist dietetic services to patients with a variety
of solid tumours attending the Trust. This will include patients receiving radiotherapy,
chemotherapy and/or supportive care on both an inpatient and outpatient basis.

To participate in multidisciplinary team meetings to advise on issues related to nutrition.
Use developed communication skills to educate staff and patients in complex dietary therapies

and nutrition support regimes.

To effectively manage a clinical caseload to ensure efficient use of dietetic resources.
To contribute to the development of dietetic services within the Trust.
To work collaboratively with the Band 7 Oncology Dietitians and the Nutrition Nurse practitioner

to develop evidence based best practice clinical nutrition guidelines.

To contribute to a multi professional approach to patient care.
To contribute to the development of policies and procedures for delivering effective nutritional

care.

To participate in research and audit related to the service that will lead to improvement in quality
and service outcomes.

To liaise with specialist dietitians e.g. home enteral feeding, nutrition support, over specific

dietary problems or queries and to develop and evaluate evidence based resources and
information sheets.

To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients, understanding drug treatments and other

clinical tests results with relevance to the dietary intervention required.

To undertake clinical and nutritional assessment of complex oncology patients, including
To evaluate outcomes of dietetic interventions through the monitoring and review of nutritional

care plans and adjust to achieve goals.