Specialist Diabetes Dietitian

We are looking for an enthusiastic, personable, and motived dietitian to work in inpatient and outpatient settings. You will see patients within the Diabetes Super Six Model of Care, including inpatient diabetes and complex type 1 patients. You will also be trained as a DAFNE educator to provide carb counting courses. You will work closely with the diabetes and ward based MDT. You will have opportunity to support our award-winning young adult diabetes service and renowned insulin pump service, and provide education to colleagues both within and outside the organisation. You will work with senior Diabetes Dietitians, Specialist Nurses, consultants and rest of the MDT. We participate in local and national research eg poster presentations at Diabetes UK, which you will be able to be involved with. The inpatient aspect of the role will involve ward-based work, managing a caseload for diabetes wards, attending board rounds and MDT meetings. You may also be required to provide cross cover for the wider dietetic inpatient service as required. You will provide supervision for junior staff and support our renowned student training program. We welcome applications from all with diabetes or general medical experience as training will be offered as required. We will also consider an Annex 21 training post.Main duties of the job This is an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in a variety of areas. This post requires a proactive approach where you contribute to innovation, service development and audit. You will be supported with your personal development goals and have regular clinical supervision and peer support. You will work closely day to day with a range of Medical and Surgical Multi-disciplinary Teams and be involved in student training and development.

Good communication skills are essential and clinically, you will provide dietetic service to inpatients and outpatients,

• BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics or postgraduate Diploma
• Current registration with HCPC
• Membership of BDA or equivalent professional indemnity
Desirable criteria
• Introductory level Clinical Supervisory Skills Training, Broad clinical experience in at least 3 clinical areas, including medical and surgical patients
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Experience and evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
• Experience of training student dietitians
• Experience of conducting audit, While able to work independently, ability to recognise own limitations and access advice and information appropriately, Communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively convey information
• Problem solving skills
• Time management - able to prioritise work, respond appropriately to demands and keep to time in out patient setting
• Good presentation skills
Desirable criteria
• I.T. Skills - power-point, keyboard and email, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provided an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.