Band 7 Medical Surgical Dietetic Team Leader

7 days ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dietitian who is interested in enhancing leadership, service development and research skills in a Band 7 Team Leader role initially for a 12 month period to lead the Surgery dietetic team and develop the surgery specialism with exciting opportunities to participate in multidisciplinary research in vascular surgery. Is this you?

You will lead a team of Band 6, Band 5 dietitians and dietetic assistants providing specialist dietetic input to the regional vascular surgery service, trauma and orthopaedic, general surgery patients as well as input to the enhanced recovery of patients post-surgery.

You will be an integral part of the dietetic leadership team working alongside 3 other Band 7 Dietetic Team leads who lead across Acute Medicine, Specialist Medicine, Health Care of Older People and Stroke

Substantial post registration experience in an acute NHS hospital setting is required providing a broad range of dietetic clinical experience.

We are looking for an innovative, self-motivated dietitian. Excellent leadership, team working, organisational and time management skills are essential.

Your training and development is important to us. Training opportunities will be offered to support you to develop your clinical, leadership and research skills to enable you to thrive in this role.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
Excellent communication skills and a flexible approach will be key requirements as you will be co-ordinating a team of dietitians working across 3 hospital sites alongside therapy colleagues to lead and meet clinical need whilst facilitating discharge.

You will lead a core team of dietitians and dietetic assistants within the surgery team as well as support cover arrangements across a larger dietetic team. In addition you will carry a caseload of complex patients and provide peer support and supervision to dietitians in the team to enhance skill development particularly important as the team includes newly qualified dietitians. The post holder will be required to support ongoing training and development of the Medical Surgical dietetic team

Enthusiasm for quality improvement, teaching and coaching and development of the service is essential. You will be supported to participate in opportunities to contribute to multidisciplinary research projects

We are committed to developing the successful applicant's knowledge and skills to their full potential to enhance your talent to provide the best service possible.

If you have any questions regarding the post please contact Sarah Thatapudi, Medical Surgical Dietetic Team Leader or Catriona McClafferty, Deputy Director of Therapies on telephone number 0121 424 2673.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:

- Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.
- A levels or equivalent qualification
- Degree in dietetics or equivalent.
- Current Registration with HCPC

**Desirable**:

- Training in management/leadership.
- Training in specialist area.
- Evidence of further postgraduate study in specialist area.

**Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Demonstration of clinical experience enabling post holder to manage a complex caseload of patients
- Demonstration of significant experience in managing /leading others
- Experience of training other staff / student dietitians.
- Previous experience of conducting audits and/or research
- Good clinical knowledge of specialist area of team to manage.
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