Dietitian - Band 5
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Are you a newly qualified dietitian, or graduating later this year? Are you looking to return to practice or an existing band 5 dietitian searching for an exciting new role to enhance your skills and advance your career?
We have recently expanded our dietetic service. This means we have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 dietitian to join our experienced and friendly team of dietitians, dietetic assistant and dietetic practitioner. This role offers the opportunity to work within the specialist areas of cardiac and thoracic surgery, cardiology and long-term respiratory medicine.
We have an established student training programme in which you will be involved and there are opportunities to contribute to audits, service development and publication of articles and abstracts to build your CPD portfolio.
This role is full time 37.5 hours per week for a fixed term of 2 years. Please note that student dietitians approaching the end of their training are welcome to apply and we can start pre registration candidates as Band 4 until HCPC registration is secured.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a comprehensive dietetic service to the surgical and medical wards at Royal Papworth Hospital Trust as part of the Nutrition and Dietetic team.
The successful applicant will be responsible for a selection of wards that includes cardiac and thoracic surgical wards, cardiology wards, respiratory wards and outpatients and day-case settings providing prehab and rehab nutrition support to patients. There is experienced support available for you to learn specialist dietetic skills in clinical areas such as heart and lung transplant, the management of rare conditions such as chylothorax and ataxia telangiectasia, cystic fibrosis and complex tube feeding.
You will develop and take part in staff and patient teaching, support band 3/4 dietetic assistants in terms of senior advice and be involved in the training of student dietitians.
There is the opportunity for the successful applicant to attend relevant study days and conferences and take part in audit and research projects.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge.
We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future.
Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today.
The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence and collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles and interactions.
Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Date posted
18 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
2 years
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9175-2324-2-NS3820
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)



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