Dietician

**Job Title**:Dietician

**Grade**: Band 6

**Trust**:Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

**Location**:Barnsley Hospital, S75 2EP

**Hours**:22.5, Monday to Friday

**Pay rate**:£20.76

**End Date**:TBC

The post holder will have knowledge/experience in critical care and experience of complex nutrition support practices, including enteral nutrition. They must be able to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a complex workload whilst working both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team.

High levels of both written and oral communication are essential to this post with the ability to deliver or discuss difficult diagnosis and prognosis with tact, empathy, managing distressed or aggressive patients or carers/relatives. The post holder must be able to communicate accurate and sensitive information to patients, carers, and relatives as well as within their own team & colleagues.

**Role Details**:

- Cover of a critical care caseload
- Assessing complex nutritional patients
- Liaising with appropriate MDT members
- Cover of acute hospital wards
- Provide evidence-based specialist dietetic assessment, management, and treatment of patients within the framework of clinical governance
- Plan and organise on-going dietetic services in the relevant specialities
- Work flexibly and adapt to meet the changing needs of the service
- Responsible for maintaining own competency and self-development
- Be HCPC registered
- BSc or equivalent degree in Dietetics or Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics
- Have Significant clinical experience of working within an acute hospital setting within the NHS
- Knowledge and experience of enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Practice in accordance with the professional, ethical, and legal codes of the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and Trust and NHS protocols and guidelines

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- Build holiday allowance
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- Stakeholder pension scheme

**About the Trust**:
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing Trust achieving a ‘Good’ rating in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment and achieving significant progress in the delivery of our strategic objectives. We are proud of the commitment of our staff to ensuring a strong and sustainable future for this organisation which is highly valued by our local communities.

Not only do we have a full range of the services you would expect in a hospital of our size, but we also have a fantastic new Children’s Emergency Department and Assessment Unit which we completed during the Covid pandemic in early 2021. Our state-of-the art Neonatal unit opened in 2018 and has received glowing feedback from families and the staff who work there.

Our specialised services include cancer and surgical services in partnership with other local healthcare providers such as neighbouring hospitals in Rotherham and Sheffield. We also have an Assistive Technology team which serves a large part of the North of England.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Temporary contract
Part-time hours: 22.5 per week

**Salary**: From £20.76 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 62367