Dietician - Lung Cancer

5 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity for a dynamic dietician to influence the optimisation of lung cancer patients accessing the treatment pathways within Wythenshawe hospital.

To lead specialist dietetic team in providing an effective specialised dietetic service for patients within a specific clinical area.
To have a responsibility to line manage and supervise a team of dietitians and assistants To act as a source of expertise and support to other dietitians and other healthcare professionals including medical staff, AHP’s, Pharmacists, Nursing staff. As a highly experienced autonomous practitioner to assess, request diagnostic tests and
treat patients within his/her own case load of in and/or out-patients.
To provide education and training to doctors, nursing staff, dietitians, students and others as appropriate to the role.
To be responsible for developing and co-ordinating dietetic student placement programmes. To drive local policy development in relation to clinical specialty

1 position 37.5 hours per week

To provide an effective specialised dietetic service for patients within
the lung cancer clinical area
To act as a source of expertise and support to other dietitians and other healthcare professionals including medical staff, AHP’s, Pharmacists, Nursing staff.
As a highly experienced autonomous practitioner to assess, request diagnostic tests and treat patients within his/her own case load of in and/or out-patients.
To provide education and training to doctors, nursing staff, dietitians, students and others as appropriate to the role.
To be responsible for developing and co-ordinating dietetic student placement programmes.
To drive local policy development in relation to clinical specialty

Contributing to the MDT for the one stop clinic

See full job description for all duties

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

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We’re looking forward to hearing from you


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