Rotational Hef Dietitian, Band 5 - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2 weeks ago
Description
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.
The proposed interview date for this vacancy is: Friday 22nd March 2024
Main duties of the job
As a Rotational Home Enteral Feed Dietitian, you will:
- have an exciting and varied caseload with the opportunity to care for both adult and paediatric patients who are enterally fed in the county of Gloucestershire
- work as an autonomous practitioner caring for a dedicated caseload of enterally fed patients
- be supported to develop your skills in enteral feeding by highly specialist, experienced Dietitians
- have the support of a dedicated mentor within the team to help develop your dietetic skills
- work within the HEFT MDT and wider MDTs including: neurology, learning disability and palliative care teams, to name a few
- have the opportunity to extend your scope of practice with practical tube competencies
- 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, including the opportunity to undertake a Preceptorship programme and associated Masters level module
- 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.
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 neurological 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 full information on this role, please view the attached job description.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Sarah Pidgeon
Job title
Lead for Paediatric Dietitians Home Enteral Feed Team
Telephone number
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