Dietitian

With advanced clinical knowledge, interpersonal skills, & leadership qualities you will be responsible for the delivery of dietetics in diabetes, lipid disorders, and respiratory weight management, across the two sites. For TGH, you will also guide your team in the provision of nutritional inpatient rehabilitation for stroke, neurology, medicine, and orthopaedic services.

Alongside another team lead dietitian, you'll support your team of four dietitians and dietetic assistant to deliver, evaluate & improve practice to ensure high quality, evidence-based, patient-centred care.

A nutritional expert in your field you will provide supervision to post & pre-registration dietitians. Proposing learning opportunities, contributing to competency achievement, & coaching them to advance their own professional practice.

A highly experienced autonomous practitioner with a recognised dietetics degree or equivalent & registered with the HCPC; you'll assess the nutritional condition of patients with complex needs, make comprehensive dietetic diagnoses, request diagnostic tests, give treatment options, & provide evidenced-based advice. As the consistent practitioner, you'll review outcomes, & adapt care plans to facilitate patient centred goals.

As a valued member of multi-disciplinary services, you'll build good working relationships with highly skilled nurses, doctors, psychiatrists & other allied health professionals. Working together to achieve the best outcome for your patients.

Be part of our passionate dietetic team at MFT where we empower people to achieve their goals, feel better & live longer. Here you'll be a highly valued member of our amazingly diverse seventy strong dietetic team, who make a real difference across 4 hospital sites.

Based at Wythenshawe Teaching Hospital (WTWA) and Trafford General Hospital (TGH), you'll be close to vibrant Manchester, enjoying its culture and excellent transport links. Whilst also working in the relatively calm surroundings of suburban hospitals.

As we work together to improve the services provided to our local community & those accessing our regional specialist services. You & your patients will benefit from the biggest electronic record system & innovative online patient portal.

As an inspiring & organised individual, you will drive forward quality improvement, governance activities, staff health initiatives & pre or post registration training. Want more opportunities, consider the career paths of your colleagues who have developed their leadership skills, accessed research opportunities, undertaken a non-medical prescribing course, advanced their clinical competencies & expanded their educator abilities., 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.