Clinical Lead Dietitian in Derby

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Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust. Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for:

An exciting new role has been created within the nutrition support dietetic team at Royal Derby Hospital to support dietetic clinical leadership to the critical care service. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian with experience working in critical care who is looking to expand their own skills in critical care dietetics and service development.

As clinical lead you will work closely with dietetic and multi-professional colleagues across the Trust to ensure high quality, evidence-based care is provided to patients. You will also be able to expand research and audit work with the service and have the opportunity to lead transformation and improvement projects and influence our service delivery.

You will be part of a team of nutrition support specialist dietitians and will be expected to provide clinical supervision to the wider dietetic department in the area of nutrition support.

Main duties of the job include:

• Being part of a supportive dietetic leadership team, including other clinical lead dietitians and a dietetic team lead, as well as dietetic operational leads.
• Demonstrating strong communication and leadership capabilities, as well as the ability to work autonomously to assess and manage a caseload of patients.
• Managing and prioritising your clinical caseload whilst supporting the work and development of the team.
• Providing cover for clinical inpatient services to stroke/neuro and nutrition team (parenteral nutrition) when required.
• Facilitating the training of dietetic students, including apprentice dietitians, and delivering a variety of education and training programmes for other health care professionals across the Trust, relating to nutritional care.

Closing date of applications: 14th January 2025

Interview date: 28th January 2025

If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development.
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.

Key Facts About Our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England with an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day, the 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities can be found in the attached Job description and Person Specification.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

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