Specialist Community Dietitian

We are excited to recruit a community specialist dietitian. Are you ready for a new challenge and wanting to develop your existing specialist clinical skills? We believe that as Dietitians, Nutrition Nurses and Support staff:

• We enable recovery
• We empower quality of life
• We bring independence and dignity to our patients
Are you passionate about optimising the quality of life of others, enabling recovery following serious illness and driven to promote the independence and dignity of your patients? Then you may be interested in learning more about our team and working with us in Nutrition and Dietetics. This post offers an opportunity for a Dietitian to take the next step in their career and really make a difference to patients requiring dietetic intervention in the community setting. We are looking for an innovative individual who is driven to support the clinical delivery of adult pathways for our diverse population as we seek to be the leaders of integrated care. Candidates will be joining a service at a time of considerable opportunity. You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to establish and foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders across the multidisciplinary team to support and enhance the care of the patient in the community., The postholder will hold a caseload of nutritional support and home enterally tube fed patients; working with patients to develop individually tailored plans to meet their nutritional needs. Additionally holding a weekly outpatient clinic working with patients requiring complex nutrition support or with gastroenterology diagnoses. This is a rewarding prospect working with a caseload of people in their own homes, outpatient centres and care homes within our integrated multidisciplinary towns team across Sandwell and West Birmingham.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality. Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities. We have three newly emerging strategic objectives: Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live