Dietitian

Dietitian – Adult Eating Disorders

Are you a passionate and skilled Dietitian looking to make a difference in the lives of adults with eating disorders? We have an exciting opportunity to join our multidisciplinary community eating disorders team based in Suffolk.

You will work alongside an experienced Specialist Dietitian, helping to enhance and develop our services for adults with eating disorders. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to build your knowledge and experience of eating disorders and mental health dietetics. You will benefit from the wider network of eating disorder dietitians working across the trust.

Clinical work is varied and hugely rewarding. You will work with patients through the nutritional and physical consequences of eating disorders providing advice to patients at all stages of their treatment. This includes community clinics, group education and supporting acute hospital admissions.

We welcome applications from Dietitians with experience but also sound transferable skills and an interest in this fascinating clinical field. We are a cross-county team so some work across the Suffolk locality may be required.

This role expects you to act as a source of expertise on the dietary management of eating disorders to the multi-disciplinary team, community health professionals and others involved in the care of our patients. This includes liaising with colleagues in the local acute trust.

Clinical work is varied and hugely rewarding. You will work with patients through the nutritional and physical consequences of an eating disorders providing advice to patients at all stages of their treatment. This will include patients at risk of re-feeding syndrome and patients with complex dietary needs. We offer dietetic care in a variety of setting including community clinics, groups and support acute hospital admissions

This is a change from being based in a traditional dietetic department and allows for significant personal and professional development. The eating disorders team is a supportive environment respectful of the dietetic role.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Louise Jordan Job title: ANP Email address: louise.jordan@nsft.nhs.uk

Emma Blyth

Specialist Dietitian

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