Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Macmillan Oncology Dietitian
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Job Overview
Frimley Health Foundation Trust is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a permanent Band 6 Macmillan Oncology Dietitian on a part-time basis (three days per week). This role provides a fantastic opportunity to develop experience across a broad range of oncology specialities, including mixed tumour groups, with key focus areas such as upper gastrointestinal, haematology, lung, and breast cancers.
You will play a key role within the MDT, supporting patients throughout their cancer journey—from diagnosis through to post-treatment. The role includes working across diverse clinical settings such as the chemotherapy day unit, acute oncology admissions, MDT meetings, and telephone clinics.
We may be able to consider offering this role as a Band 5-6 developmental role, so please do apply if you are a B5 Dietitian who has a keen interest in Oncology.
Our department is a dynamic and well-established team of dietitians specialising in areas including paediatrics, surgery, intensive care, respiratory, oncology, gastroenterology, stroke, and rehabilitation. We are a progressive service that actively contributes to both Trust and national clinical governance agendas.
We are strongly committed to professional development and continuous learning, supporting CPD and personal development for all staff. The service also plays a key role in education, including the training of students, junior colleagues, wider healthcare professionals, and patients and carers.
Main duties of the job
- Clinical oncology speciality within in and outpatient settings such as; haematology ward, chemotherapy unit, consultant led clinics, telephone clinics.
- Be responsible for providing specialist dietetic advice for patients with complex clinical conditions within tumour groups, such as; breast as well as gynaecology, lung, colorectal, haematology, renal and upper gastro-intestinal cancers.
- Lead on patient related activity on haematology ward, cancer education and training.
- Clinical skills in management of cancer and treatment related symptoms including oral and enteral feeding methods, and discharge processes.
- Co-ordinating discharges for oncology patients requiring home enteral nutrition.
- Attendance at lung MDT meetings.
- Establishing Macmillan Dietitian as a core member of cancer teams and be the expert resource within the multi-disciplinary team.
- Attendance and contribution to oncology related meetings; cross-site oncology dietitians, CNS, AHP and Navigator meetings.
- Development and provision of resources used within oncology speciality.
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for further details, please note addendum to job description for further details on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent.
- HCPC registration.
- Evidence of CPD.
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at student supervision training.
- Member of a special interest group.
- Nutrition based course post qualification within specialty.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills.
- Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
- Able to research evidence-based practice and apply to practice.
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.
- Able to prioritise workload and meet clinical needs of patients.
- Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting.
Desirable criteria
- Some basic management skills.
- Group work skills.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate a high level of expertise within a wide range of clinical dietetics.
- Training and supervision to support staff and students.
- Experience of audit.
- Evidence of working as part of an MDT in clinic practice.
- Experienced in all aspects of nutrition support – oral, nutrition support and enteral nutrition.
- Experience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds.
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Desirable criteria
- Experience of research.
- Leadership and first line management.
- Management of complex outpatients.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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