Senior Dietitian (Community Nutrition Support)

Job overview

We have an excellent opportunity for a motivated and proactive dietitian to join the South Tees Community Dietetic team.

As part of the Adult Nutritional Support Team, you will work closely with colleagues across the South Tees community locality, providing expert advice to patients, carers, health care professionals, primary care and community-based staff. The caseload will predominantly be delivering care to adults requiring oral and enteral nutritional support, through a mixture of face to face and virtual care as well as potential in-reach to James Cook Stroke and Neurosciences.

Our wider service covers The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, The Friarage Hospital, Northallerton and the community localities of Hambleton and Richmond and Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland locality.

Continual Professional Development is actively encouraged, as is participation in audit and quality improvement. We have access to excellent facilities within STRIVE, to support leadership, managerial and quality development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

This post involves travel as the service delivers care to patients in a variety of settings including clinics, patients’ own homes and other community healthcare settings. The main office base for this post will be at Langbaurgh House, Guisborough. The community service uses Systmone, which facilitates mobile working.

Within the Adult Nutritional Support Team you will also actively participate in, or lead, quality and service improvement projects and developments.

Our ideal candidate will have a wide range of post registration clinical experience and preferably some experience in the development and support of other dietetic and support staff members, and dietetic students.

You should have excellent communication skills, including the proven ability to motivate patients and colleagues using a wide variety of approaches. Above all you must be passionate about working within dietetics using drive and innovation to make positive changes.

It is vital that you have the ability to develop good working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across the health and social care economy.

The post will also involve education of students (including dietetic apprentices) and other health care professionals and support workers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.