Specialist Community Dietitian - Maternity Cover

Are you passionate about care home nutrition and supporting care home services? Are you passionate about optimising the quality of life of others, enabling recovery following illness and driven to promote the independence and dignity of our patients? At Sandwell and West Birmingham we believe that as dietitians: We enable and support recovery We empower individuals to achieve quality of life We bring independence and dignity to our patients The Nutrition and Dietetics Service at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is excited to recruit a clinical specialist to work within our community dietetic services and with the care homes team on a 9 month secondment to cover maternity leave., We are looking for an innovative individual who is motivated by MDT working and keen to work with and support a specialist community caseload of patients who reside in care homes. The successful postholder will be a key member of the Integrated Care Homes multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients residing in care homes. The role will include a caseload of patients requiring oral nutrition support and home enteral tube feeding working alongside our community dietetics team to deliver nutritional care to people across Sandwell PLACE. The successful postholder will lead on the roll out of care home training in relation to MUST, nutrition support and meal times across Sandwell PLACE working with teams to support the local care homes to remain up to date and evidence based in terms of nutrition and hydration provision. You will work alongside our growing community nutrition and dietetic services and closely with nutrition nurses and dietetic peers. You will need to use highly

developed interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders. We train dietetic students from Coventry University, Birmingham City University and Birmingham University College.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation 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 this year 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 . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue 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 strategic objectives:
1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives