Clinical Lead Dietitian- Nutrition Support

The Inpatient Dietitian Team has an exciting opportunity to recruit a highly motivated Clinical Lead Dietitian for Nutrition Support. You will work alongside Clinical Leads in Catering; Gastroenterology and enteral nutrition; Critical Care, Surgery and Parenteral Nutrition, 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 nutrition support pathways and use of nutritional supplements within the service, to ensure these are the most required as well as cost effective. You will support developing pathways with the Community Dietitian team.

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., o To provide a safe, effective and consistently high quality Nutrition and Dietetic service at Stockport Foundation Trust.

o 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.

o 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.

o 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.

o To support and develop the dietetic service within oral nutrition support

o To support the Nutrition and Dietetic Service Lead with operational and strategic planning, deputising, as required.

We are recruiting dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking multidisciplinary professionals who have experience and knowledge of working with nutrition.

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.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

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:

o Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

o NHS pension scheme membership

o Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further

o NHS Staff discounts

o Cycle to work scheme

oSalary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt

o Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice