Kidney Specialist Dietetic Team Lead
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
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Job overview
Due to a retirement, we are looking for a new band 7 Clinical Lead Kidney Dietitian.
This is 32.5 hours post where the post holder can choose to spread hours across 4 or 5 days.
The post holder would be expected to manage the dietetic care for consultant led kidney clinics and to provide dietetic cover to a haemodialysis satellite unit, dialysing over 100 patients per week.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will combine a management/leadership role alongside a specialist clinical role.
The post holder would be expected to clinically supervise a band 5 Rotational Dietitian 1 day a week and students.
They would also be expected to continually develop and evolve the Renal Dietetic team as well as lead on Renal Dietetics for the Trust providing guidance, training and policies as required. They would also be expected to support the wider Dietetic management team.
Clinically the post holder would be expected to manage a caseload of patients with complex kidney needs
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide cover to 4-5 renal multidisciplinary consultant led clinics per week including a monthly advanced kidney care clinic for stage 5 patients.
To provide dietetic cover to haemodialysis satellite unit, dialysing over 100 patients per week and attending monthly multidisciplinary meetings per month at the centre.
To provide advice to colleagues on the management of patients at ELHT who have kidney disease
The department offers student training to A, B and C placements and Dietitian Apprenticeships therefore the post holder will be expected to be involved in clinical teaching and assessment of students on their placement so therefore previous student training experience is desirable.
East Lancashire is a teaching hospital so the post holder would also be expected to contribute to Medical and other health care professional training as well.
East Lancashire has good transport links to Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and beyond and we are close to the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District.
The post holder would be expected to work across the sites and localities of East Lancashire so the post would suit a car driver/owner.