Deputy Dietetic Manager (Acute Lead)

Are you a self-motivated team player who is passionate about quality improvement and service development? Are you looking for a new opportunity for 2025? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly dietetic team as Deputy Dietetic Service Manager (Acute Lead); working for a Trust who has recently won the 'Trust of the Year' in the prestigious Health Service Journal Wards in November 2024.

Warwickshire Dietetic Service provides inpatient services to adults with a wide variety of nutritional needs at George Eliot Hospital, Warwick Hospital and Leamington Spa Hospital. As well as providing a service to inpatients, we also run numerous hospital and community based outpatient clinics. Some of these clinics are run independently and some are run jointly with multidisciplinary teams. We deliver community services across Warwickshire for children and adults and as part of the left shift agenda, acute and community teams work closely together.

We are looking for a leader with proven strategic and operational management, service development and clinical leadership skills to continue to drive forward the service.

We will support your Continuous Professional Development in line with our values and behaviours framework.

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We are hoping to conduct interviews for this role around the end of April.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible to the operational management and delivery of an agreed area of service

To assist and deputise for the Dietetic Service Manager in the operational management and delivery of service objectives.

To contribute to the redesign of the Warwickshire Dietetic Service as required.

To lead or contribute to specific projects in line with strategic and business plans

To ensure the Warwickshire Dietetic Service Clinical Governance requirements are achieved and reported as per Trust processes

To be responsible for effective line management of the dietitians and assistant practitioners in an agreed area of the service To assist in delivering safe, efficient and effective Dietetic Services across Warwickshire

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.