Critical Care, Surgery

The Inpatient Dietitian Team has an exciting opportunity for a 10 month fixed term post, which is suitable for a secondment, to Clinical Lead Dietitian for Surgery, Critical Care and Parenteral Nutrition. You will work alongside Clinical Leads in Catering; Gastroenterology and Enteral Nutrition; Nutrition Support, reporting to the Team Lead. The Inpatient Dietitian Team is part of the Integrated Nutrition and Dietetic service at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust with Community Dietitians, Patient Education and TYA Diabetes Dietitian.
Key areas of focus for the role will be providing dietetic training and cover for Critical Care and Surgical Wards and working with the larger MDT to support administration of Parenteral Nutrition and monitoring the pathways involved.
All Clinical Lead Dietitians delegate for the Team Lead and Service Lead, as required. You will provide supervision to Band 6 and 5 Dietitians working on medical wards. You will receive regular supervision from the Team Lead and access to internal and external training.
We are recruiting a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking multidisciplinary professional who have experience and knowledge of working with nutrition.
- To provide a safe, effective and consistently high quality Nutrition and Dietetic service at Stockport Foundation Trust.
- To act as a clinical expert and autonomous practitioner in specialist clinical area to provide highly specialist dietetic care to patients with complex nutritional needs. Manage a delegated caseload within specialist area. To assess, plan and implement patient centred, evidence -based interventions.
- To provide evidence-based care, education and information to patients, carers and health care professionals. This will be in a range of inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Provide line management and supervision to Band 6 and Band 5 Dietitians. Contribute to the training and development of Dietetic students and Dietetic Assistant/Support workers.
- To support and develop the dietetic service within surgery, Critical Care and Parenteral Nutrition. With particular focus on ensuring correct governance procedures are in place, which may involve attending patient safety investigations and the development of policies and Standard Operating Procedures.
- To support the Nutrition and Dietetic Service Lead with operational and strategic planning, deputising, as required.

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 highly specialist Dietetic treatment to delegated caseload of critical care, surgical and nutrition support patients using evidence-based patient centred principles to assess, implement and evaluate interventions
- Regularly evaluate treatment plans to ensure they are safe and effective
- To provide advice on the use of oral nutritional supplements, enteral and parenteral nutrition as required
- Act as an independent practitioner and be professionally accountable and responsible for aspects of own work. Decide priorities for own work, balance patient related and professional demands in consultation with other Dietitian team leaders and Service Lead
- To be responsible for planning and service development within specialist areas
- To identify service needs and maximise the efficiency of the team within the resource available.
- To work alongside Service Lead and Dietetic Team leads to integrate service and pathways and implement any changes within the team
- To provide line management for specialist team including recruitment and selection, induction, monitoring sickness and absence, performance and development reviews, one to one meetings and clinical supervision
- To be a source of clinical expertise for the team providing supervision and mentorship
- To work alongside consultants, specialist nurses and ward staff to provide specialist nutritional treatment plans as part of holistic patient care.
- Provision of expert advice on the management of patients referred to the nutrition team for PN due to additional complex clinical and nutritional needs.
- To attend ward