University Hospitals Tees
Senior Dietitian
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Job Opportunity: Dietitian
Due to a vacancy within our dietetic service at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated, and proactive dietitian to work within our team. This will be a split post offering the opportunity to enhance your nutritional support skills working with patients with complex medical and social needs.
Role Overview
You will work 3 days a week in the speciality of upper GI oncology within an established dietetic and MDT based at The James Cook University Hospital. This caseload will support patients through the pathways from pre surgery assessment to post op follow up.
You will also spend two days per week working within our Adult Nutritional Support Team at The Friarage Hospital, Northallerton. The role includes both ward-based and community work, incorporating home visits (including care homes) and outpatient clinics.
Key Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with Oncology Dietetic colleagues to provide a service to cancer patients, including Upper-GI cancer, covering outpatient & inpatient areas.
- Work collaboratively with community dietetic colleagues to deliver a comprehensive dietetic service to inpatients at The Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, and to patients across the Hambleton and Richmondshire locality in their own homes and community clinic settings.
- Manage a predominantly enteral fed patient caseload including the preparation and organisation for discharge. Make appropriate onwards referrals for ongoing dietetic management/follow up.
- Liaise with healthcare professionals within & outside of the organisation to provide a holistic and patient-centred approach to care such as specialist nurses, PEG MDT, enteral feeding company nurses, nutrition nurse specialists, respite care, district nurses, GPs, care home staff, community matrons/Macmillan nurses, palliative care team, etc.
- Use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients/caregivers, who may have barriers to understanding or communicating, and health care professionals in a variety of situations on different levels.
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Requirements
You should be a friendly and forward-thinking Dietitian with excellent communication skills and confident in organizing and prioritizing workload within a busy acute hospital. You will have experience of managing patients requiring enteral nutrition.
Additional Information
You will be involved in ward-based teaching and education and development of resources, working with dietetic colleagues, nutrition nurse specialists, and practice education facilitators.
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Clare Lord-Hatton
Job Title: Operational Manager/Renal Dietitian
Email Address: clare.lord-hatton@nhs.net
Telephone Number: 01642 854777
Alternative Contact:
Clare Lord-Hatton, Operational Manager, or Georgia Payne Head of Dietetics and Adult Speech Therapy via Dietetics Main Office Team: 01642 854777 (internal ext 54777)
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