Highly Specialist Dietitian - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Full time, permanent, Band 7 Diabetic Specialist Dietitian, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH) at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT).

We have a brand new hospital and this is an exciting time for this new post to be established.

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Dietitian to join our friendly Diabetes team at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust, to cover the new Royal Liverpool Hospital site.

As part of this new and exciting post you will be one of the lead dietitians within Diabetes based in our new hospital.

Experience of working with people with complex nutritional needs is essential.

The post holder will be expected to develop and enhance the diabetic dietetic service providing highly specialised support to a complex outpatient caseload.

You will join our established dietetic team and support service development and supervision of junior staff within medicine.


An exciting opportunity has arisen for a specialist diabetes dietitian to join our team of a Band 7 and a Band 6 Diabetes dietitians.

As an integral part of the MDT, working alongside Specialist Nurses, Diabetes consultants and the rest of the diabetes MDT to provide specialist, collaborative care.

The role mainly outpatient focused across our renowned insulin pump and award-winning Young Adult Diabetes services in addition to a caseload of patients within the Diabetes Super Six model including complex type 1.

Previous experience of carbohydrate counting is essential as the role includes training fellow health care professionals both within and outside the organisation.


As a leadership role, the postholder will ensure day to day running of the service with duties such as referral management, caseload prioritisation, evaluating activity in addition to training, supervision, service development and audit.


The role may require the provision of support for the dietetic inpatient services as required such as Nephrology, Nutrition Support, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Haematology.


Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.


The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.


It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.


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Job Summary

To provide factually accurate, unbiased evidence based nutritional advice appropriate to the needs of individual. Advice will be provided using a patient-centred approach, in the context of multidisciplinary, multiagency delivery plans.

Job Purpose

To be a clinical lead in the Trust for nutrition and dietetic services to your own specialist area


This involves:

  • 1. Personally providing the dietetic service to inpatients and outpatients.
  • Educating/training other members of the multi-disciplinary team in specialist area.
  • Clinical supervision of newly qualified staff and Band 5/Band 6 dietitians on rotation.
  • Training of Student Dietitians.
  • Development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to clinical speciality.
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