Band 6 Senior Dietitian

Job summary

Are you are an experienced Band 5 or an established Band 6 looking to increase your clinical dietetic skills in a range of different specialities? If so, one of our Band 6 Senior Dietitian posts based at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, as part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, is the job for you!

As a result of a combination of department restructure under new leadership, internal promotions and additional funding, several new posts have been created at QE, which makes it an exciting time to join the team! You will join a friendly, proactive and patient-focused team of over 50 dietitians and dietetic assistants, which is part of a wider multi-professional Therapy team

If this sounds like you, please contact us for more details and we look forward to receiving your application.

We have exciting vacancies in the following clinical areas:

*Full Time, permanent Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support Dietitian

*Full Time, permanent Renal Dietitian

*Full Time, permanent Inherited Metabolic Disorders / General Medicine Dietitian

*Full time, 1 year fixed-term Liver Dietitian

For further information, please contact Dan Griffith (Dan.Griffith@uhb.nhs.uk) or Emma Taylor (Emma.Taylor@uhb.nhs.uk)

Main duties of the job

Post qualification experience in an acute NHS hospital setting with a good knowledge of nutrition support is essential.

The day to day tasks will differ dependent on which speciality you indicate you are applying for however all areas will require applicants to have experience of close multi-professional working and must demonstrate excellent communication skills and time management capabilities.

Organisation, flexibility and an ability to problem solve and apply clinical reasoning effectively are essential as you will be working in a fast-paced and busy environment.

An integral part of the role will involve assisting with supervision of Band 5's, Dietetic assistants, and students and providing opportunity to lead on audits/QI projects to improve patient care.

If you are a motivated and driven individual who is keen to contribute to the development of our dietetic department we look forward to receiving your application!

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

• Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
• Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. We do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://birminghamandsolihullcovidvaccine.nhs.uk where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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