Rotational Dietitian

Job overview

Are you an existing band 5 Dietitian looking to develop or broaden your skills or a newly qualified band 5 Dietitian looking for a permanent post that will form an excellent start to your career, or a return to practice Dietitian looking for a retraining opportunity?

Due to an internal promotion an opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic Dietitian to join our innovative and dynamic Dietetic Department as a band 5 rotational Dietitian. We offer an excellent band 5 rotation programme that will enable you to gain a broad range of experience in a number of clinical areas within busy acute hospitals and community working with a varied and diverse population group. Please click to find out what its like to work at East Lancashire. https://www.flexclip.com/share/16040922a4056e94bf7a94eb2c833ffa6594328.html

Main duties of the job

We appreciate that student placement training can have its limitations. Our rotation scheme allows you to develop further into a variety of specialist areas and gain skills you may not have opportunity for in your student placement.

Clinical specialties you will be able to gain experience in include Acute wards,  gastroenterology, surgery, oncology, diabetes, renal, weight management, paediatrics, community nutrition support and home enteral tube feeding.

The post holder will be provided with regular clinical supervision and extensive CPD opportunities and excellent clerical support.

The acute rotation will involve a variety of acute medical and surgical wards at Royal Blackburn Hospital and our rehabilitation hospitals at Burnley and Pendle.

The community rotation will include being a part of our community nutrition support team providing dietetic care to patients in their own homes and clinics.

The Paediatric Rotation will include being part of our Paediatric team and providing dietetic care to children on the paediatric ward and in paediatric clinics.

The WRD (Weight management, Renal and Diabetes) rotation will include being part of the WRD team and covering your own clinics in weight management and Diabetes as well as working with and providing support to specialist Renal, Diabetes and Weight Management Dietitians.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note – Student Dietitians approaching the end of their training are welcome to apply, tailored employment options are available that will allow new graduates to commence in post as a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner until HCPC registration is received. We also accept applications from “return to practice” Dietitians and again tailored employment options and training packages are available to regain HCPC registration