Dietitian

Job overview

The Nutrition and Dietetics Service at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is growing following investment and we are delighted to offer this opportunity to join our team.

Our belief is that dietitians, nutrition nurses and support staff:

• Enable recovery
• Empower quality of life
• Bring independence and dignity to our patients

We are looking for an innovative individual who is motivated by MDT working and keen to work in a growing department in a band 5 dietitian position working primarily with inpatients within elderly care, trauma and orthopaedics or general medicine; with additional clinical attachment opportunities across surgery, stroke, medicine, gastro and oncology specialities and one community rotation working with people with a range of medical conditions on oral and enteral feeding pathways. All of our band 5 dietitian roles contain an outpatient element and are well supported by senior staff and peers.

Candidates will be joining our service at a time of considerable opportunity and we are delighted to offer this opportunity to join our team.

Main duties of the job

This is a varied post providing a dietetic attachment and broad experience across the service; providing you an opportunity to expand your dietetic knowledge and develop your passion for nutrition and dietetics across a range of working environments. We currently offer six monthly attachments, with four attachment options in the acute setting and one in the community setting. We tailor our attachments to the needs of the service and to you as a professional providing strong development opportunities into your speciality of preference or to receive a broad experience working in a number of areas department-wide.

Our attachments strongly align with the BDA preceptorship and we have a strong focus on continued professional development and peer support. Our team is supportive and friendly and all staff members joining the department are supported with internal and external training and development opportunities in addition to access to the nationally recognised Black Country preceptorship programme for newly qualified professionals. You would be joining our ambitious and forward-thinking therapies structure and existing band 5 dietitian team (working alongside seven band 5 dietitian peers).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails

You can hear from our team members in relation to what it is like to work for us:

Grace: https://youtu.be/aJRDXQBYnLU

Holly: https://youtu.be/CMYsnE3Hb1Q