Job Introduction
Join us as a Band 6 Dietitian and receive a £1000 welcome bonus! We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and self-motivated to join our small, friendly and busy community dietetics team based at Bickerstaffe House, Ormskirk covering the West Lancashire area.
The successful candidate will, manage a caseload of home enterally fed, gastroenterology, neurology and nutritional support patients. Work will take place in a variety of settings, including face to face clinics, telephone/virtual clinics, home visits and in care/nursing homes.
This is a permanent position with full or part time hours available
Main Responsibility
The successful candidate will provide dietetic assessment and support to adults and their carers in the community setting. The main responsibilities will include:
- To undertake nutritional assessment, dietary analysis and calculate nutritional requirements of referred patients, taking into account medical, social and cultural factors.
- To provide nutrition and dietary advice suitable for the patients’ medical, social and cultural factors, which is evidence based.
- To negotiate change with patients to enable them to achieve set dietary targets.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will:
- Be a qualified Dietitian with a HCPC Registration
- Have gastroenterology / Neurology/ Nutritional support experience
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team (with dietitians / dietetic assistant / Multi-Disciplinary Team)
Package Description
As a Band 6 Community Dietitian, you’ll be part of our valued team at Ormskirk District General Hospital
You will feel valued as a Band 6 Community Dietitian within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- *The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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