Dietitian - Prescot, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Prescot, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 Dietitian to join our friendly Dietetic department at Whiston Hospital (St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospital NHS Trust).

We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, driven and motivated individual, who is a team player and keen to develop their knowledge and skills.

The successful individual will have excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach with the ability to work to high standards, as well as being able to recognise personal and role limitations.

The role will be to deliver high quality evidence-based care to the following clinical areas: care of the older person, oncology, respiratory, general medicine, and general surgery.

You will be required to work autonomously and take responsibility for your own clinical caseload.

Interviews for this position will be held week commencing Monday 9th January 2023.

As a service, we are committed to CPD for all of our staff through a range of opportunities including training courses e.g.

Postgraduate Masters, the PENG clinical update; BDA accredited courses; and regular internal CPD sessions.

There are opportunities to contribute to audits and service development projects and shadowing and development in more specialist areas such as stroke, critical care, gastroenterology, parenteral nutrition, UGI cancer and burns and plastics.

If newly qualified, you will be enrolled in the Trusts preceptorship programme which supports the transition from newly-registered professional, to competent practitioner.

We have an excellent staff supervision system enabling our staff to be committed to developing both the service and themselves.

You will receive regular supervision from a Senior Dietitian and peer support from our existing Band 5 Dietitians. We take Student Dietitians on P1, P2 and P3 placements and your input into their training would be valued.

A flexible approach to day-to-day tasks is essential to meet the demands of the service. Our philosophy is to keep the patient at the heart of everything we do.

We are a forward-thinking department that is continually looking for ways to improve our services and every contribution is welcome.

PLEASE NOTE- we provide a seven day service, days of work will be Sunday to Saturday. You may be asked to provide occasional cover on a Bank Holiday.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year
HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rates Outstanding by the CQC
Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas;

Standard of care
Best place to work
Care of patients being the Trust's priority
Staff engagement
Staff morale
Compassionate and inclusive
Providing a safe environment for staff

KEY DUTIES

To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients/clients in your care.
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients/clients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use specialist clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidencebased practice and treatment options.
To take delegated responsibility from a senior clinician for managing patients/clients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment plans for patients with these conditions.
Evaluate patient progress, reassess, and alter treatment programmes as required, reporting back to senior clinician with regular support and advice.
To have the ability to undertake selfdirected/lone working in a variety of locations.
To participate in weekend, evening working and seven day working rota's as applicable.

CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES