Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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:-
- a comprehensive in house & externe 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)
NHS discounts and many more
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you’re looking for a rewarding and impactful role where you can be part of a dedicated MDT delivering high-quality care, we would love to hear from you!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Dietetic Degree at BSc or MSc level
- Strong evidence of Eating Disorder related CPD (portfolio)
Knowledge
- Understands different approaches to managing underweight patients
- FT AN trained (Family Therapy Anorexia Nervosa)
Experience
- A minimum of 2 years experience of working clinically either in a hospital or community setting and of working with an Eating Disorders service.
- Experience of working with people of all ages and families presenting with eating difficulties and managing complexities and / or Intensive Treatment Team service.
- Working in a Community Dietetics service.
Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
YOUR APPLICATION
We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at recruitment@nsft.nhs.uk.
PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your "junk" mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your " junk" inbox.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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