Fixed-term diabetes dietitian post with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, covering maternity leave for 12 months. The work centres on dietetic input for adults with diabetes, in multidisciplinary pump clinics and dietitian-led clinics across two hospital sites. Insulin pump knowledge is essential, and the trust will consider someone working below this level who has prior diabetes and NHS experience. HCPC registration as a dietitian is required.
What the job involves
- Provide dietetic input in multidisciplinary pump clinics for adults with diabetes
- Run dietitian-led clinics across King's Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital
- Deliver high-quality, patient-centred care for adult patients living with diabetes
Qualifications
- BSc Nutrition and Dietetics
- Evidence of continual professional development since qualification
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration as a dietitian
Experience
- Significant post-registration acute hospital paediatric experience
- Post-registration experience of managing neonates
- Experience working in MDT practice, with ability to influence and facilitate MDT working
- Direct supervision of junior staff and supervision of students
- Previous experience of diabetes and the NHS
- Experience of clinical effectiveness, audit and evidence-based practice
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of insulin pumps
- Excellent clinical reasoning and evidence-based treatment planning
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Ability to take a full systematic focused history and support safe discharge decisions
- Knowledge of infant physiology and nutritional support in term and preterm infants, including expressed breast milk, fortifier, formula, enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Good organisational skills, IT literacy, presentation and teaching skills
Other
- Professional, patient-focused commitment to high-quality care, and ability to work flexibly within department hours
Nice to have
- Knowledge of safeguarding
- Knowledge of infection control
- Knowledge of quality improvement and audit processes to deliver service changeContinual professional development in neonatal nutrition
- Membership of the BDA paediatric group or neonatal specialist interest group
- Completion of Masters modules in neonatal nutrition (BDA module 5)
- Teaching qualification
- Experience of MDT teaching
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
