Job summary
University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire has an exciting opportunity for a Team Lead Dietitian in our Diabetes, Endocrine and Bariatric Services Team. This a part time (22.5hours) permanent position. You will work in collaboration with two service lead dietitians and a small friendly team of dietitians and a dietetic assistant based at UHCW Dietetic Department.
About you? We are hoping to find an experienced Dietian with the relevant clinical skills and line management/leadership experience.
What can we offer? An exciting role as a Senior Specialist Dietitian within a large supportive, friendly and forward thinking dietetic department. An opportunity to develop yourself as a dietitian and leader within UHCW Dietetic Department. We offer and encourage continuing professional development within and outside of UHCW and are very active in student training.
Main duties of the job
Provide line management support
Coordinate the work of the team in providing diabetes and specialist weight management services in collaboration with two service leads - mostly out patient clinic activity
To work with the relevant MDTs and team service leads to manage and improve services
To work with senior colleagues in the department on department initiatives
Provide specialist dietetic advice on the dietary / nutritional management of adult patients within the service
About us
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be clinically competent to give highly specialist dietetic advice, treatment and dietary counselling to the designated specialty in appropriate locations working with clients individually or in groups as appropriate.
To communicate complex nutrition and dietetic information in an understandable form to staff, clients and carers, requiring negotiation, persuasion, motivation and counselling skills including situations where there are barriers to understanding.
To use appropriate communication skills and resources to ensure that suitably accessible information is available to individuals on their dietary treatment/care plans.
To deliver structured group education to patients , and where necessary on a National validated course, to gain accreditation'
To determine customer requirements within the service, developing and promoting the use of referral guidelines as appropriate.
To identify opportunities to promote healthier lifestyles or more appropriate nutrition in the designated specialty, and, using innovative methods, develop initiatives to promote healthier nutrition in the area, and contribute to the development and delivery of guidelines and action plans.
To liaise with various agencies as appropriate (e.g. caterers, retailers, nurses, carers), to enable provision of appropriate nutrition for individuals and populations.
To act as clinical lead and a source of expertise on nutrition and dietetic topics, advising and supporting other members of the multidisciplinary team and other health / care workers as appropriate, helping those who are in a position to provide nutritional advice andinfluence eating habits within the specialty, aiming to give accurate consistent nutritional messages to clients.
At the end of 2021, the Government made changes in the law requiring all NHS staff to have 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine (unless exempted on medical grounds) from 1st April 2022.
This law will now be subject to consultation regarding whether vaccination status should be a condition of employment.
UHCW strongly encourages all staff to have both doses of vaccination as it still remains the most effective way to protect all Trust employees, their family members and patients against infection.
Until the Government announces the result of its review process, UHCW will continue to ask people taking up employment with the Trust to confirm their personal COVID-19 vaccination status (or to confirm that they are exempted on medical grounds).
Should the Government uphold the position that mandatory vaccination is a condition of continued employment all staff at UHCW would be mandated to meet this requirement.
Please consider this before submitting an application for this position. If you wish to discuss this with a member of our Recruitment Service, please contact recruitment@uhcw.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be clinically competent to give highly specialist dietetic advice, treatment and dietary counselling to the designated specialty in appropriate locations working with clients individually or in groups as appropriate.
To communicate complex nutrition and dietetic information in an understandable form to staff, clients and carers, requiring negotiation, persuasion, motivation and counselling skills including situations where there are barriers to understanding.
To use appropriate communication skills and resources to ensure that suitably accessible information is available to individuals on their dietary treatment/care plans.
To deliver structured group education to patients , and where necessary on a National validated course, to gain accreditation'
To determine customer requirements within the service, developing and promoting the use of referral guidelines as appropriate.
To identify opportunities to promote healthier lifestyles or more appropriate nutrition in the designated specialty, and, using innovative methods, develop initiatives to promote healthier nutrition in the area, and contribute to the development and delivery of guidelines and action plans.
To liaise with various agencies as appropriate (e.g. caterers, retailers, nurses, carers), to enable provision of appropriate nutrition for individuals and populations.
To act as clinical lead and a source of expertise on nutrition and dietetic topics, advising and supporting other members of the multidisciplinary team and other health / care workers as appropriate, helping those who are in a position to provide nutritional advice andinfluence eating habits within the specialty, aiming to give accurate consistent nutritional messages to clients.
At the end of 2021, the Government made changes in the law requiring all NHS staff to have 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine (unless exempted on medical grounds) from 1st April 2022.
This law will now be subject to consultation regarding whether vaccination status should be a condition of employment.
UHCW strongly encourages all staff to have both doses of vaccination as it still remains the most effective way to protect all Trust employees, their family members and patients against infection.
Until the Government announces the result of its review process, UHCW will continue to ask people taking up employment with the Trust to confirm their personal COVID-19 vaccination status (or to confirm that they are exempted on medical grounds).
Should the Government uphold the position that mandatory vaccination is a condition of continued employment all staff at UHCW would be mandated to meet this requirement.
Please consider this before submitting an application for this position. If you wish to discuss this with a member of our Recruitment Service, please contact recruitment@uhcw.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
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
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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).
