Dietitian

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Dietitian to join our Integrated Nutrition and Dietetic service at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. This is based in our community team at Kingsgate House. The team comprises of an Integrated Nutrition and Dietetic Service Lead, Team leader, band 7, band 6 dietitians, Dietetic Support Worker and Secretary. We are integrated service with the Acute dietetic service at Stepping Hill Hospital and patient education colleagues.

The role will be focused on providing a high standard of dietetic care to community patients requiring nutritional support. There will be opportunities working alongside senior dietitians in their specialist areas. You will have involvement with general outpatient clinics.

Newly qualified staff are required to complete a Preceptorship programme. Professional development is encouraged through supervision, appraisal, mandatory training and CPD activities. Supervision is provided by senior clinical staff.

Optimise the clinical progress and quality of life of patients by providing individualised nutritional assessments, evidence-based recommendations and care plans across designated wards and clinics.

Work as a committed member of both the Community Dietetic team and the Integrated Nutrition and Dietetic service, contributing to the achievement of Departmental, Team and Trust goals.

Provide relevant advice and training to other health care professionals.

Participate in service development.

Provide specialist knowledge across a range of procedures underpinned by theory

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

**Benefits we offer to you**:

- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

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**Responsibilities**:
Provide a clinical Nutrition and Dietetic Service to patients living in their own homes and care settings and, outpatient clinics at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

Attend relevant meetings and liaise with medical, paramedical and nursing staff as necessary.

Act as a resource for nutrition and dietetic information and advice to other professionals.

Assist in updating and development of diet sheets and new teaching materials.

Participate in menu checking for inpatients on therapeutic diets and liaise with the Catering Department for the provision of therapeutic diets.

Assist with training and updating healthcare professionals, regarding evidence-based nutrition therapy, including giving lectures and informal talks.

Collect all data necessary to meet local information requirements and as required by the Nutrition and Dietetic Service for service monitoring.

Participate in quality assurance programmes, and development and maintenance of service standards, policies & procedures.

Participate in personal and professional development through objective setting and regular job review.

Work as a committed and effective member of the dietetic staff in order to maximise the potential of the service and profession.

Maintain professional competence and expertise by keeping up to date with current research, working practices and models of working.

Provide dietetic cover for other wards and hospitals as necessary.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.