Specialist Dietitian

We have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual interested in further developing their dietetic skills in an acute adult hospital setting. You will be working in a busy acute hospital providing a specialist service across several wards and undertake patient group education.

You will be joining our friendly and supportive team of Dietitians, dietetic assistants and administrative staff, working across the hospital in the areas of respiratory medicine, cardiology, general medicine and elderly care. The majority of treatment will be nutrition support, both oral and enteral with opportunities to be involved in parenteral nutrition.

We are committed to supporting the ongoing personal and professional development of our staff and offer excellent development opportunities. We are also involved in Student Training, offering Practice Placement opportunities from North West HEI's. We develop our workforce, here you can really grow with the knowledge & guidance shared by our dietetic working groups.

We are looking for someone who can work as a specialist, autonomous dietitian. You should have strong organisational, communication and leadership skills and embrace the challenge of service development.

Acute care is provided at Southport and Formby and Ormskirk District General Hospital. This includes adults' and children's accident and emergency services, intensive care and a range of medical and surgical specialities., 1. To provide a specialist Dietetic Therapy Service to patients of Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust.
2. To provide specialist expert clinical support to junior staff and students.
3. The post holder will demonstrate by example, and have advanced communication skills, using them to motivate, develop, guide and advance dietetic skills required by the team in order to provide a high-quality responsive dietetic service.
4. To provide specialist assessment and management advice for patients whilst working closely with all members of the MDT.
5. Accept clinical responsibility for and manage a caseload of complex cases using advanced knowledge, evidence based/client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions as required.
6. To take part in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of dietetic therapy services within the designated area, holding responsibility for defined projects, including the development of team outcome measures, risk assessment, documentation and operational policies in conjunction with the team leaders.
7. To assist in the meeting of Trust Objectives in relation to patient care.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme