Job summary
Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a permanent Band 6 Macmillan Oncology Dietitian. This is a great opportunity to develop your experience in various aspects of oncology, including mixed tumour groups, particularly: Head & Neck, haematology, lung and breast cancers. You will act as an integral part of the MDT and will support patients throughout their cancer journey from diagnosis to post treatment covering areas such as; chemotherapy day unit, acute oncology admissions, MDT meetings and telephone clinics. This role will also include a Head & Neck MDT clinic.
Our department is a dynamic, well-established team with dietitians working in specialities such as; paediatrics, surgery, intensive care, respiratory, oncology, gastroenterology, and stroke and rehabilitation. We are a progressive service which actively contributes to the Trust and national clinical governance agenda. The service is committed to training and development within; CPD and personal development, as well as supporting the training of students and junior colleagues, training healthcare professionals, and training carers and patient groups.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
- Clinical oncology speciality within in and outpatient settings such as; haematology ward, chemotherapy unit, consultant led clinics, telephone clinics.
- Be responsible for providing specialist dietetic advice for patients with complex clinical conditions within tumour groups, such as; head & neck, breast as well as gynaecology, lung, colorectal, haematology, renal and some upper gastro-intestinal cancers.
- Lead on patient related activity on haematology ward, cancer education and training
- Clinical skills in management of cancer and treatment related symptoms including oral and enteral feeding methods, and discharge processes.
- Co-ordinating discharges for oncology patients requiring home enteral nutrition
- Attendance at haematology MDT meetings
- Establishing Macmillan Dietitian as a core member of cancer teams and be the expert resource within the multi-disciplinary team
- Attendance and contribution to oncology related meetings; cross-site oncology dietitians, CNS, AHP and Navigator meetings
- Development and provision of resources used within oncology speciality
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for further details, please note addendum to job description for further details on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for further details, please note addendum to job description for further details on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
- Basic knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Attendance at student supervision training
- Attendance of relevant accredited courses
- Member of a special interest group
- Nutrition based course post qualification within specialty
Competencies
Essential
- Problem solver
- Good time manager
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
- Ability to communicate sensitive and emotive information to patients
- Evidence of excellent written skills
- Evidence of dealing with sensitive issues and barriers to communication with patients
- Able to research evidence-based practice and apply to practice
- Ability to train students to graduate level and supervision of dietetic assistants
- Excellent presentation skills
- Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working
- Evidence of delivering a high quality patient centred service
- Ability to problem solve innovatively
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality
- Able to prioritise workload and meet clinical needs of patients
- Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting
- Able to act on own initiative
Desirable
- Some basic management skills
- Presentation skills
- Group work skills
Professional / Specialist and Functional Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration clinical dietetic experience
- Able to demonstrate a high level of expertise within a wide range of clinical dietetics
- Training and supervision to support staff and students
- Experience of audit
- Evidence of working as part of an MDT in clinic practice
- Evidence of active participation in in-service training
- Experienced in all aspects of nutrition support - oral, nutrition support and enteral nutrition
- Experience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds
Desirable
- Experience of research
- Leadership and first line management
- Training of other staff
- Management of complex outpatients
- Managing the dietetic service on own without support of team on site
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel efficiently and in a timely way between sites if required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
- Basic knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Attendance at student supervision training
- Attendance of relevant accredited courses
- Member of a special interest group
- Nutrition based course post qualification within specialty
Competencies
Essential
- Problem solver
- Good time manager
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
- Ability to communicate sensitive and emotive information to patients
- Evidence of excellent written skills
- Evidence of dealing with sensitive issues and barriers to communication with patients
- Able to research evidence-based practice and apply to practice
- Ability to train students to graduate level and supervision of dietetic assistants
- Excellent presentation skills
- Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working
- Evidence of delivering a high quality patient centred service
- Ability to problem solve innovatively
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality
- Able to prioritise workload and meet clinical needs of patients
- Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting
- Able to act on own initiative
Desirable
- Some basic management skills
- Presentation skills
- Group work skills
Professional / Specialist and Functional Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration clinical dietetic experience
- Able to demonstrate a high level of expertise within a wide range of clinical dietetics
- Training and supervision to support staff and students
- Experience of audit
- Evidence of working as part of an MDT in clinic practice
- Evidence of active participation in in-service training
- Experienced in all aspects of nutrition support - oral, nutrition support and enteral nutrition
- Experience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds
Desirable
- Experience of research
- Leadership and first line management
- Training of other staff
- Management of complex outpatients
- Managing the dietetic service on own without support of team on site
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel efficiently and in a timely way between sites if required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
