Bariatric Dietitian

Bariatric Dietitian Band 5/6 (depending on experience).

Are you ready to graduate and interested in Bariatric Surgery? Or are you already working as a dietitian and looking for a change?

The Royal Stoke University Hospital is looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to work with patients as they move through our well established bariatric surgery pathway. This is an opportunity to see patient’s lives change for the better as they lose weight, experience improvements in co-morbidities, physical ability and self-confidence. We follow our patients
through the pathway from their first appointment meeting the team, preparation preoperatively, immediately post-operatively and then for 2 years after surgery to ensure that nutritional status is optimised and maintained. The post is mainly clinic based - both in clinics alongside other members of the bariatric team and in our own dietetic clinics. We run
a mixture of face-to-face, video and telephone clinics. We also see our patients on the ward post-operatively and if they are re-admitted post-operatively.

The post will be based at the Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke on Trent with additional cover at County Hospital in Stafford. There may be an opportunity for some remote working within the job plan. The successful applicant will be working as an integral and well respected part of the multidisciplinary team and will work closely with a team of 3 dietitians, a Dietetic Assistant and a wider acute team of over 40 dietitians.

Band 6.

We are a large, dynamic teaching hospital with dietitians working in a wide range of specialist areas, so there would also be the potential of sampling different dietetic specialities within our department as part of your CPD.

1 WTE available, but part time working and job sharing would be considered.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details on the post, please contact the Hiring Manager, Emily Cooper (see contact details)