Dietitian

Job Title: Dietitian

Grade:Band 6

Trust: Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust

Location: Worcester Royal Hospital, WR5 1DD

Hours: Friday - Sunday or Saturday - Monday 8.00 - 4.00

Pay rate: From £21.80

Are you an experienced Dietitan?? Do you have evidence-based experience and are looking for flexible working opportunities? Worcestershire Acute is currently providing these opportunities through an exciting placement opportunity Worcester Royal Hospital.

The Trust is delighted to offer the opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated individual to join their Team. The post holder will work primarily within acute adult inpatient setting and work to improve nutritional support for inpatients.

To be successful in applying for this role you will need:

• HCPC Registration
• Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent qualifications in Dietetics
• Post registration clinical dietetic experience in NHS
• Experienced in all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds , naso-gastric, PEGs, PEJs
• Ability to train dietetics students to graduate level.

Role Details:

• Working as an experienced autonomous practitioner, to provide a high standard of patient focused care through specialised assessment.

• To plan and deliver a high quality service to patients working in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.

• To offer a dietetic skills and expertise to complex in-patients and out-patients.

• To contribute to the Therapy Clinical Governance agenda to further improve the quality of the service.

• To engage with patients in treatment planning decisions and to formulate a treatment plan jointly with the patient providing written information where appropriate.

• To advise and motivate patients, relatives, and carers to make positive lifestyle and dietary changes.

Who are NHS Professionals?

If a hospital cannot supply staff on a ward or area, due to increased demand, sickness, or common staff shortages, they need to call upon Bank staff. NHS Professionals works with Trusts to develop a 'Bank’ of highly skilled workers who want to work flexibly with the NHS.

Why NHS Professionals?

We value your skills, dedication, and commitment in supporting your local Trust and the NHS. We believe together we continue to deliver world-class healthcare service to our patients.

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: -

• Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!
• First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
• Dedicated consultants
• Flexible working options
• Free DBS and free training
• Build holiday allowance
• Support when you need it - 24/7 365 days
• Stakeholder pension scheme

About the Trust:

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust provides hospital-based services from three main sites - the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre, and Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester. We provide a wide range of services to a population of 580,000 people in Worcestershire as well as caring for patients from surrounding counties and further afield. Last year, we provided care to more than 231,448 different patients - that is 40% of the Worcestershire population that received care at one of our hospitals in the last year.