Lead Therapist
1 week ago
**Working hours**: 37.5 hours per week
This role is for Lead Therapist and Professional Lead for Nutrition and Dietetics. You will be expected to lead on the operational management of the nutrition service which includes acute and community services. You will also be the professional lead and be expected to have a strong clinical background within a dietetic specialty.
The role of Lead Therapist is vital in supporting both the Associate Director and Director of Therapies in developing services to meet the needs of the local health economy. You should have senior operational management experience, including management of change, resource control and budgetary management and be able to demonstrate proven leadership. You should also be a currently registered dietitian.
Provide professional leadership for the service.
Provide operational management to a large dietetic team covering acute, community and primary care.
Be responsible for the governance and performance of the service.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.
The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.
The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
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