Home Enteral Feed Team, Dietetic Team Lead- Support - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Do you want to be part of an award-winning, innovative, friendly team?


Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS foundation Trust Home Enteral Feeding Team (HEFT) has several exciting opportunities to join their well-established, experienced team following a successful bid for further expansion.

Full or Part time hours considered


The proposed interview date for this vacancy is: Wednesday 20th March 2024

Main duties of the job

As an Advanced Dietetic Practitioner and Support Workforce team lead you will:

  • have an exciting, challenging and varied clinical caseload within unique settings, offering specialist care in the community
- work as an autonomous practitioner caring for a dedicated caseload of enterally fed patients

Well-being support is also available to you to help manage more complex caseloads.
- supervise the Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs) clinical case load, provide regular clinical supervision and oversee patient allocation to the Dietetic Support Workforce in HEF
- undertake line management duties for the DAPs and Dietetic Support Workers (DSWs), including interviews, induction and all training and education needs for the Support Workforce
- have the opportunity to extend your scope of practice with practical tube competencies and provide clinical supervision to the Support Workforce
- utilise well developed communication skills to liaise with members of diverse MDTs
- have the opportunity to undertake research and further post-graduate study at Master level
- have the opportunity of flexible working with the option of some remote home working as requested

Well-being support is available to you to help manage more complex caseloads.


The HEFT is well-established, with over 20 years of experience in delivering high quality enteral feed care to patients in Gloucestershire.

The team is multidisciplinary; including Dietitians, Enteral nutrition Nurse Specialists, Dietetic assistants and admin support.

Each team is led by a dedicated, highly experienced and skilled leader who is able to provide you with the support, knowledge and skills needed to develop you as a member this dynamic team.

The HEFT can offer you a varied caseload of patients.

The team care for both adult and paediatric patients, allowing you to develop your knowledge and skills across a range of clinical areas.

We cover unique settings including a third level disability college and a highly specialist neurology centre. The teams is actively involved with research, both in-house and national projects.

We conduct regular audit and service development work which has been presented nationally (at BAPEN) and internationally (at ESPEN congress).


The team can offer a number of unique opportunities including access to an educational bursary, apprenticeship opportunities and a preceptorship programme.

Active involvement in further post-graduate education and research is encouraged, to ensure you are developing skills across all pillars of dietetic practice.

From when you join the team, we offer a structured competency framework as well as having an in-team educational lead to help support your development.

We are committed to investing in your CPD.

For more information on the roles and responsibilities of this vacancy please view the attached job description.

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