Diabetes Dietitian (adults/paeds), Dietetics, WRH

Job summary

Would you like to work in Paediatric Diabetes and Diabetes Structured Education?

An exciting opportunity for a motivated Band 5 or 6 dietitian to develop a career in Diabetes in Worcestershire. It is a new full-time post, with 0.6 WTE in Paediatric Diabetes and 0.4 WTE in Adult Diabetes Structured Education, providing dietetic service for families and young people with diabetes from diagnosis to transition to adult services and delivering Nationally recognised Diabetes Structured Education programs to adults, including X-PERT Diabetes, Carbohydrate counting and DAFNE.

The Paediatric Diabetes Service is delivered in clinics in Worcester, Redditch and Kidderminster and groups in different community settings and virtually providing flexibility for some sessions working from home, if convenient and opportunities to take part in fun activities, like Diabetes Activity Weekend and other social events. The Adult Diabetes Structured Education sessions are delivered either virtually or face to face, with flexibility to deliver virtual sessions from home, if it is convenient.

Former experience in paediatric diabetes or structured education is not essential and we offer clinical supervision, training and CPD in paediatric diabetes and training to deliver X-PERT Diabetes and DAFNE. Further support and CPD provided by our Dietetic Department of 22 dietitians in specialty teams and approved for student A, B and C placements.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an experienced autonomous practitioner and provide a high standard of patient focused care through specialised assessment.
• To plan and deliver a high quality service to patients working in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.
• To offer dietetic skills and expertise to paediatric diabetic patients, 22.5 hours a week.
• To deliver diabetes structured education programmes for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, 15 hours a week.
• To contribute to the Therapy Clinical Governance agenda to further improve the quality of the service.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Kidderminster General Hospital

Bewdley Road

Kidderminster

Worcestershire

DY11 6RJ

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Kidderminster General Hospital

Bewdley Road

Kidderminster

Worcestershire

DY11 6RJ

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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