Gastroenterology Dietitian

Be part of our passionate dietetic team at MFT where we have vision & motivation to empower people to achieve their goals, feel better & live longer. Here you’ll enrich your career in one of the largest NHS Trusts in England. Be a highly valued member of our amazingly diverse dietetic team, who make a real difference across 4 hospital sites. Based at Wythenshawe Hospital, you’ll be close to vibrant Manchester, enjoying its culture and excellent transport links; whilst working in a suburban hospital which will become the centre of a new sustainable health village. As we work together to improve the services provided to our local community & those accessing our regional specialist services, you & your patients will benefit from the biggest electronic record system & innovative online patient portal.

You will advance your clinical expertise and leadership skills working. You’ll have access to an array of internal and external training, including our leadership courses. Use your acquired skills to direct one of our multi-sited dietetic working groups in the progress of clinical policies; a preceptorship pathway; pre-registration placements, research projects; electronic outcomes; or health and wellbeing initiatives.

Want more opportunities, consider the career paths of your colleagues who have accessed research training, undertaken a non-medical prescribing course, advanced their clinical competencies, & expanded their educator abilities.

You will guide a team of gastroenterology and surgery dietitians to provide a high quality and safe dietetic service to acute wards & OP services. Experience of clinical governance activities will enable you to monitor effectiveness, support staff development, improve patient experience and manage risk.

With advanced clinical reasoning and using current evidence you and your team will provide expert dietetic practice in nutrition support and deliver dietary education to individuals diagnosed with gastroenterology and surgical conditions including inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease, functional bowel disease, cancer, ileus, stomas and fistulas.

Have a recognised dietetics degree or equivalent & registered with the HCPC; you’ll assess the nutritional condition of patients, make dietetic diagnoses, give therapeutic treatment options, & provide evidenced-based advice. As the consistent practitioner, you’ll review outcomes, & adapt care plans to facilitate patient centred goals. Always ensuring medical, psychological, social, environmental & cultural needs are considered.

Your enhanced communication skills will produce records achieving national standards & local policy. An empathetic clinician you’ll build rapport & show compassion in difficult situations. You’ll deliver local & national education programmes, developing your virtual and direct presentation skills.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Diversity Matters

We’re looking forward to hearing from you