Dietetic Clinical and Practice Learning Educator

Job overview

If you have been working as a Dietitian with an interest and experience in developing and delivering training programmes and have been involved in dietetic practice placement this exciting new role may be of interest to you.

The post holder will get the opportunity to shape nutrition and hydration training based on the recommendations of the Healthcare Food Standards.

The successful candidate will join our team of 30 staff (dietitians, a nutrition support nurse, assistant dietitian practitioners and an administrative assistant) and will closely with our education team, our current dietetic placement leads and our Practice Placement Facilitator.

The Trust supports remote working and working from home for all team members as appropriate to their role.

The Trust is committed to improving health and wellbeing of all its staff and we are now fortunate to have an onsite gym.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will take the lead in delivering and  developing nutrition and hydration training and for dietetic practice placement learning.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Education and Training.

Practice Placement

To establish and maintain effective communication within the multidisciplinary team, demonstrating leadership and good working relationships with all levels of staff and learners

• To be approachable, visible, flexible and available to meet the needs of learners, preceptees and staff. To act as a role model, sharing effective practice and learning, promoting a high standard of safe and effective care which is evidence based. To provide leadership, guidance and support for learning. To support learners according to their individual learning needs, to ensure they achieve the learning outcome, ensuring a constructive and supportive approach. To be innovative with teaching methods and learning experiences to enable learners to develop confidence, competence and autonomy in their practice. To support clinical staff to ensure professional standards relating to supervision and assessment in practice are understood and implemented in practice. To support supervisors and assessors to implement student programmes, supervision and assessment effectively. To support the Centre for Practice Learning with learners focused risk assessments and monitoring of reasonable adjustment plans. To support clinical teams to identify learning opportunities within practice areas, whilst encouraging the organisation of learner, preceptee and preceptor support within clinical learning environments.