Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Dietitian
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Exciting Opportunity in Oncology Team
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our department to expand our Oncology Team. This post is a 12-month fixed-term post where you will work alongside the Cancer Prehab Team at Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust, a pilot service set up in January 2024 to deliver a Prehabilitation Pathway to those diagnosed with various tumour types.
Job Overview
The job will involve working within the Prehab Team, providing a specialist dietetic oncology service via face-to-face clinics, telephone consultations, home visits, group education, and service development. You will work closely with members of the Prehab Team, which include a Physiotherapy Lead, two Health Coaches, Administrative Support, and the Oncology Multidisciplinary Team. You will be responsible for the co-leadership of this service.
This role is Trustwide with face-to-face clinics delivered across various hospital sites and a requirement for travel.
Important Notes
- Secondment Roles: For Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval from your current manager and have completed documentation required beforehand (see secondment policy) as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.
- Vacancy Closure: Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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- To act as a Specialist Oncology Dietitian within a multi-agency team, managing a complex & diverse caseload within specialist field.
- To provide highly specialised dietetic assessment, diagnosis & treatments using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- To provide clinical education, supervision & support to staff & students within specialist area.
- To provide specialist advice to families, carers, other health & social care professionals.
- To contribute to planning, development & auditing of the Cancer Prehab Team within specialist area.
- To provide a quality Nutrition and Dietetic Service in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust.
- To work as part of multidisciplinary teams across Acute & Community Teams.
- To be an active member of the team and play a vital role in patient service delivery, education, and resource development.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:
- Engages, enables
- Uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement
- Facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
- To supervise qualified & unqualified staff within the team.
- We participate in student training & all of our staff are required to take part in student training with support provided to help you in this role.
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Department Overview
The Nutrition and Dietetic service is made up of 4 teams; acute, diabetes, paediatrics, and community. We are a large department of nearly 50 staff, predominately based between the 3 main sites.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best-performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nicola Cunningham
- Job Title: Dietetic Team Lead / Specialist Oncology Dietitian
- Email Address: nicola.cunningham@nhct.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01670 564006
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