Specialist Oncology Dietitian (fixed term contract 24months)

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join our dietetic team at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialist Oncology Dietitian (1.0wte Band 7, 24 month fixed term). This newly created role is your chance to lead and shape a highly specialised dietetic service for oncology patients across North-West Surrey.

In this pivotal position, you will:

• Develop and deliver expert nutritional care for patients throughout their cancer pathway.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals and collaborate with local oncology and dietetic services.
• Drive service development and innovation, ensuring our patients receive the highest standard of care

While the role focuses primarily on outpatient care, you will also support oncology inpatients, providing continuity and specialist input across the entire pathway.

What we offer:

• Excellent CPD opportunities to support your professional and specialist development.
• Flexible working options to help you balance work and life commitments.
• A supportive team environment where your ideas and expertise will shape the future of both dietetic and oncology services

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for cancer patients, thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment, and want to be at the forefront of service transformation, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post will take the lead in establishing this service and implement support to cancer patients across site and the Trust, delivering excellent care to this nutritionally vulnerable patient group. This role offers the chance to shape services, contribute to research, and develop professionally in a supportive environment. The postholder will be expected to participate in the following:

• Lead in the development of a highly specialised nutrition and dietetics service for oncology patients at Ashford and St Peter’s for their treatment and/or palliative care.
• Joint working with Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust – the regional cancer specialist centre and as part of the group model will be expected
• To participate in data collection to measure activity and outcomes to support proof of concept
• Work autonomously as the lead clinical specialists in the development and provision of a comprehensive nutrition and dietetic service to ASPH outpatient services and to other areas as and when required in response to service needs.
• To liaise with all members of the Oncology MDT. This includes attendance at MDT meetings and any other relevant meetings.

The Trust is moving towards 7 day working and this post may be expected to participate in providing the Dietetic service across 7 days, including extended hours and weekend working

We welcome applications from HCPC registered dietitians with a strong clinical background.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will actively manage a caseload of patients dependent on their clinical rotation. They will interpret complex patient data to provide high quality, safe and effective nutritional advice.

The post holder will us advanced highly specialist dietetic skills and knowledge to asses, plan and implement treatment and deliver dietetic interventions to oncology patients in an outpatient and inpatient setting across North West Surrey. You will work autonomously and independently to develop an oncology dietetic service to patients of North West Surrey.

You will be expected to undertake clinical research and maintain data relating to the development and monitoring of the oncology dietetics service. Results of this research, audit and report writing should be submitted for presentation or publication to appropriate conferences, meetings and journals.

Please see job description in supporting documents for full details of the duties of the role and expected stakeholder relationships.