Specialist Dietitian - Diabetes and ESD (Band 6) - James Cook Cancer Institute & Speciality Med[...]

Specialist Dietitian - Diabetes and ESD (Band 6) - James Cook Cancer Institute & Speciality Medicine Services - South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Northallerton, North Yorkshire
SOUTH TEES HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTNUTRITION AND DIETETIC SERVICESPermanentGrade: AFC Band 6 (or Band 5 to 6 career progression opportunity, depending on experience)This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Dietitian. This post will enable you to build on and increase your skills and experience within the speciality of diabetes and also to work within the stroke early supported discharge multi-disciplinary team in the Hambleton and Richmond locality.The post holder will work within the established diabetes services based mainly at the Friarage hospital and will also work within Hambleton and Richmond community area both within the ESD team and diabetes team. The postholder will be involved in developing the service alongside other dietetic colleagues and health professionals. Caseloads will include people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and those with gestational diabetes. You will work alongside, and be supported by, senior specialists in diabetes to deliver dietary advice in a range of clinics as part of an MDT including young adolescent clinics, insulin pump clinics and dietitian led clinic. Within community setting venues you will deliver the structured education programme for those with type 2 diabetes and with time this may expand to support with the delivery of structured diabetes for type 1 diabetes. You will also have the opportunity to work with the diabetes team based at The James Cook University Hospital one day per week.As part of the early supported discharge team you will support patients in a smooth transfer between the inpatient stroke services to the home setting, providing dietetic input as part of the wider multidisciplinary team. There may also be times where you will be required to provide dietetics services at the James Cook Hospital or South Tees Community Dietetics department as part of the wider South Tees NHS Foundation Trust Nutrition and Dietetic Service for diabetes.South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:Explore leadership within the NHSPromote Trust Values and BehavioursDevelop your Leadership effectiveness and skillsPractitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your roleAfter you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
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