Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS trust for a Specialist Dietitian for Prehab Oncology Services to join our acute team in a part-time Band 7 position. This post is fixed-term until April 2027 but may be extended if funding continues.
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, Kirklees Active Leisure Trust and Wakefield Councils are working collaboratively with Yorkshire Cancer Research and Sheffield Hallam University to implement the Active Together model to individuals diagnosed with cancer in Wakefield and North Kirklees.
The Active Together programme will run alongside the existing diagnostic and treatment pathways to ensure patients are optimally prepared for treatment and beyond. It aims to maximise resilience to treatment, improve longer term health, minimise side effects and empower patients to be partners in their healthcare.
This is a funded 3 year programme which will have staged implementation into all relevant cancer pathways. Patients will receive individual assessments and be triaged into a support pathway suitable to their needs. This may be delivered in Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Hospitals, selected council and Leisure facilities closest to the patients home or may be a self-management pathway.
The post holder will be required to work at any location where the Trust provides services.
You should have experience working as dietitian across a range of specialities, including oncology and nutritional support.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to work as part of the Active Together, Yorkshire Cancer Alliance Prehabilitation programme team. This is a programme supporting patients with a cancer diagnosis to be assessed for and prepared for treatment.
The post holder will provide advanced, specialised dietetic care to patients at local and regional level. This will include giving advice to patients, their families and carers, and all healthcare staff. Close working with the whole multidisciplinary team will be necessary.
The post holder will be required to independently and effectively self-manage a caseload of patients with highly complex needs using evidence based, client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate dietetic interventions in order to prevent unnecessary admissions and optimise their nutritional status prior to oncology treatment.
The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner.
The post holder will be involved in the training and supervision of student dietitians and junior members of staff.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key requirements
- To be a key member of the multi-disciplinary Prehab Oncology teams and to personally provide dietetic support for patients within the Prehab Oncology services at the 3 hospital sites.
- To provide full management of care including nutritional assessment, dietetic treatment and advice and monitoring of inpatients and outpatients in a variety of different settings / locations.
- To educate and train patients / carers and health professionals including medical staff and external organisations e.g. CCGs, Care Homes, Voluntary Organisations, and Higher Education Institutions in Nutrition and Dietetics, related to Oncology conditions.
- To jointly lead in departmental and multi-disciplinary team audits and research in this speciality.
- To participate in the education and training of dietetic students during their clinical placements.
- To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work and current practices through the use and application of evidence based practice, audit, research and outcome measures, and lead others in doing so as required. Make recommendations to changes in clinical practice and lead implementation of new working practices in nutrition and Oncology Prehabilitation.
- To continue to develop and maintain practical and theoretical skills required to practice at an advanced level. To undertake CPD in Oncological conditions and related issues .
- To work with the Oncology prehabilitation multidisciplinary team and ensure that they are all aware of good practice in relation to nutrition for this client group.
- Highly specialist knowledge in interpreting complex clinical information to develop and monitor nutritional care plans in a specialised dietetic area. This will include the prescription of dietary treatment, prescribable nutritional products, enteral and total parenteral nutrition qualified supplementary or independent prescribers annotated on the HCPC register, may prescribe medicines within scope of practice. This will be within a defined clinical speciality and will be as per the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust non-medical prescribing policy.
- To provide timely nutritional support via most appropriate route to patients identified as being at nutritional risk.
- To provide dietetic advice for relief of treatment related symptoms, e.g. taste changes, dry mouth, nausea, diarrhoea, lethargy etc.
- To provide unbiased, evidence based advice to patients with queries regarding diets for cancer, nutritional supplements and alternative therapies, whilst considering patients beliefs and wishes.
- To develop and implement treatment plans and patient centred goals for patients following assessment and analysis of condition, nutritional history, biochemical and clinical data, drug interactions, social and cultural circumstances.
- To liaise with dietetic colleagues in local cancer centres (Leeds and York) to ensure timely patient handover and continuity of dietetic care.
- Engage in and represent the Dietetic service in Oncology meetings and forums in partnership with other Dietitians providing input into the Trust Oncology Services.
- To produce evidence based information and resources, in all media, for patients, carers and health professionals around nutrition and oncology conditions, ordering as required. To ensure regular review in conjunction with patients and the public, taking into account cultural appropriateness.
- To provide highly complex sensitive nutritional counselling to patients and carers using cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing to overcome barriers to change and effect behavioural change.
- Demonstrate analytical skills in prioritising the best course of dietetic treatment in patients with highly complex clinical conditions, where nutritional goals may conflict with other ongoing physical, emotional, psychological and medical problems.
- Support the clinical supervision, day to day management of the Band 5 and band 6 Dietitians and the mentoring and facilitation of their post graduate learning as required.
- Take a role in the education of students by planning and organising own input, teaching clinical practice and implementing tutorials. To assess and report progress to student and named trainer to ensure safe practice within allotted periods of student training.
- To provide accurate and timely information around patient activity on a daily basis for SystemOne to support the performance management requirements of the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key requirements
- To be a key member of the multi-disciplinary Prehab Oncology teams and to personally provide dietetic support for patients within the Prehab Oncology services at the 3 hospital sites.
- To provide full management of care including nutritional assessment, dietetic treatment and advice and monitoring of inpatients and outpatients in a variety of different settings / locations.
- To educate and train patients / carers and health professionals including medical staff and external organisations e.g. CCGs, Care Homes, Voluntary Organisations, and Higher Education Institutions in Nutrition and Dietetics, related to Oncology conditions.
- To jointly lead in departmental and multi-disciplinary team audits and research in this speciality.
- To participate in the education and training of dietetic students during their clinical placements.
- To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work and current practices through the use and application of evidence based practice, audit, research and outcome measures, and lead others in doing so as required. Make recommendations to changes in clinical practice and lead implementation of new working practices in nutrition and Oncology Prehabilitation.
- To continue to develop and maintain practical and theoretical skills required to practice at an advanced level. To undertake CPD in Oncological conditions and related issues .
- To work with the Oncology prehabilitation multidisciplinary team and ensure that they are all aware of good practice in relation to nutrition for this client group.
- Highly specialist knowledge in interpreting complex clinical information to develop and monitor nutritional care plans in a specialised dietetic area. This will include the prescription of dietary treatment, prescribable nutritional products, enteral and total parenteral nutrition qualified supplementary or independent prescribers annotated on the HCPC register, may prescribe medicines within scope of practice. This will be within a defined clinical speciality and will be as per the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust non-medical prescribing policy.
- To provide timely nutritional support via most appropriate route to patients identified as being at nutritional risk.
- To provide dietetic advice for relief of treatment related symptoms, e.g. taste changes, dry mouth, nausea, diarrhoea, lethargy etc.
- To provide unbiased, evidence based advice to patients with queries regarding diets for cancer, nutritional supplements and alternative therapies, whilst considering patients beliefs and wishes.
- To develop and implement treatment plans and patient centred goals for patients following assessment and analysis of condition, nutritional history, biochemical and clinical data, drug interactions, social and cultural circumstances.
- To liaise with dietetic colleagues in local cancer centres (Leeds and York) to ensure timely patient handover and continuity of dietetic care.
- Engage in and represent the Dietetic service in Oncology meetings and forums in partnership with other Dietitians providing input into the Trust Oncology Services.
- To produce evidence based information and resources, in all media, for patients, carers and health professionals around nutrition and oncology conditions, ordering as required. To ensure regular review in conjunction with patients and the public, taking into account cultural appropriateness.
- To provide highly complex sensitive nutritional counselling to patients and carers using cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing to overcome barriers to change and effect behavioural change.
- Demonstrate analytical skills in prioritising the best course of dietetic treatment in patients with highly complex clinical conditions, where nutritional goals may conflict with other ongoing physical, emotional, psychological and medical problems.
- Support the clinical supervision, day to day management of the Band 5 and band 6 Dietitians and the mentoring and facilitation of their post graduate learning as required.
- Take a role in the education of students by planning and organising own input, teaching clinical practice and implementing tutorials. To assess and report progress to student and named trainer to ensure safe practice within allotted periods of student training.
- To provide accurate and timely information around patient activity on a daily basis for SystemOne to support the performance management requirements of the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
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Person Specification
Qualifications
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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.
