Specialist Dietician

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent, Specialist, Surgical/Upper GI Dietitian in University Hospital Wishaw, NHS Lanarkshire.

We are looking for a skilled, innovative dietitian with excellent service development and communication skills who will:

- provide a clinical service to surgical and upper GI inpatients within University Hospital Wishaw and upper GI outpatients in a multidisciplinary clinic setting, at University Hospital Hairmyers. Within this post there will be a focus on:

- Adult Surgical patients including Upper GI patients.
- Enteral Feeding and nutritionally supporting patients in hospital and post hospital discharge with ongoing community care
- Developing the upper GI dietetic service including project management and data collection.
- Education and management of band 4 dietetic HCSW staff
- demonstrate excellent team working skills and the ability to work using own initiative.
- be a source of professional dietetic advice in Surgical Upper GI patients.
- contribute to service development, quality improvement and other project management initiatives.
- be an active participant in student training.
- have excellent time management skills.
- have working knowledge of basic information technology.

You will be a Registered Dietitian with valid HCPC Registration. This post requires travel across NHS Lanarkshire - a full driving license is essential.

The NHS Lanarkshire Dietetic Service has a clinical remit for people of all ages across a diverse population, with areas of both high deprivation and affluence. Community and hospital based dietetic teams work closely together to provide care to patients across inpatient and outpatient settings. We are a dynamic service who value a culture of helpfulness, support staff development and progression and have a focus on improving clinical pathways using data and digital technology to provide high quality care to our patients.

‘At NHS Lanarkshire, we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

**_ Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations._**

**_ Please note for all vacancies where a driving license is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA license._**

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