Acute Dietitian

**Job Title**: Acute Dietician

**Division**: Unplanned & Integrated Care

**Band**: 5

**Salary**: £27,055 - £32,934 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for aAcute Dietician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

We have an opportunity at Medway Hospital for an enthusiastic Band 5 Dietitian to join our friendly team of dietitians. We have recently expanded our team and are looking for dietitians who are able to provide evidence-based care to be part of our forward thinking department.

Working in a supportive team of therapists, and specifically in a growing dietetic team, you will be responsible for providing dietetic care to a varied patient group including frailty, respiratory, general medical wards, care of the elderly, short stay and surgical assessment units.

You will also have the opportunity to gain experience alongside senior Dietitians in gastroenterology, surgery, critical care and oncology. As you develop you will be involved in supervision of student placements and Dietetic assistants, and play a key role in raising the profile of dietetics across the trust and within the MDT.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

This is a great time to join Medway NHS Foundation Trust during a period of transformation and improving clinical services. This post is ideal for a confident newly qualified Dietetic graduate or a Dietitian looking to expand their skills in a busy district general hospital.

As a team, the Dietitians at Medway are known to be welcoming, hard-working, evidence based and have a great culture. Medway NHS Foundation Trust and the Dietetic department support personal and professional education and a range of courses are available to access to support your development.

To provide timely dietetic care to patients, working effectively as part of the acute dietetic team.
To participate in ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings to provide a coordinated, evidence based approach to patient care.
To support the wider Dietetic team during periods of increased demand and play an active role in the supervision and learning of others, including student placements.
7 day and extended hours working patterns may apply.
Rotations to relevant clinical areas are possible.
To educate members of the medical team, nursing staff, student nurses and other healthcare professionals as relevant to role