Band 6 Macmillan Dietitian - Nine Month Fixed Term Contract

Main area: Band 6 Macmillan Dietitian – Nine Month Fixed Term Contract

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract: 9 months (Fixed Term)

Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 177-EMER-5154341-E

Employer: James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: James Paget University Hospital

Town: Gorleston

Salary: £37,338 – £44,962 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

We have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic dietitian to join our Adult Acute Dietetic Team at the James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Macmillan Dietitian. We are a small and friendly team that includes a range of dietitians from senior to newly qualified, dietetic assistant practitioners, dietetic assistants, and secretarial support.

Macmillan has funded an oncology-focused position which will enhance the service to patients with a diagnosed cancer and will provide specialist oncology dietetic advice and intervention throughout the cancer pathway. The successful candidate will be providing specialist care to patients from various tumour sites during all stages of the cancer pathway in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. As the role is a fixed-term position, monitoring key performance indicators and collecting outcome measures will be essential from the outset to support the business case development for a substantive post.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a self-motivated, confident, and team-focused individual who is passionate about oncology to provide dietetic care to this aspect of the service and work alongside the specialist multidisciplinary teams and the wider Nutrition and Dietetic Team.

All dietitians are actively involved in student training and host training to placement students from The University of Hertfordshire. You will be actively involved in these training programmes and in the development, implementation, and audit of patient care practices as part of clinical governance. There will also be opportunities to develop supervisory skills through mentoring junior members of the team.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma/Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
• Current Health and Care Professions Council Registration
• CPD record should include evidence of in-service training and reflections of learning

Experience and Knowledge

• 12 months’ Band 5 experience in a range of clinical areas within the NHS including enteral feeding
• Experience of working in the area of Oncology
• Evidence of acting in a supervisory manner, providing specialist guidance and training to other staff or students
• Experience of working with a range of professionals within multidisciplinary teams
• Awareness of relevant professional practice, new research, and guidelines

Skills, Abilities and Competencies

• Competent to convey highly complex information in an understandable way
• Communication skills including empathy, assertiveness, and negotiation skills
• Ability to build good rapport with a wide variety of people
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload and support others with this
• Ability to act as a confident and autonomous practitioner with supervision
• Ability to work proactively under pressure and work flexibly
• Forward thinking, able to problem solve with a positive approach

The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill-health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working, and the development of a culture of openness and transparency.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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