Rotational Dietitian
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustAt East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
Are you an existing band 5 Dietitian looking to develop or broaden your skills or a newly qualified band 5 Dietitian looking for a permanent post that will form an excellent start to your career, or a return to practice Dietitian looking for a retraining opportunity?
Due to an internal promotion an opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic Dietitian to join our innovative and dynamic Dietetic Department as a band 5 rotational Dietitian. We offer an excellent band 5 rotation programme that will enable you to gain a broad range of experience in a number of clinical areas within busy acute hospitals and community working with a varied and diverse population group.
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We appreciate that student placement training can have its limitations. Our rotation scheme allows you to develop further into a variety of specialist areas and gain skills you may not have opportunity for in your student placement.
Clinical specialties you will be able to gain experience in include Acute wards, gastroenterology, surgery, oncology, diabetes, renal, weight management, paediatrics, community nutrition support and home enteral tube feeding.
The post holder will be provided with regular clinical supervision and extensive CPD opportunities and excellent clerical support.
The acute rotation will involve a variety of acute medical and surgical wards at Royal Blackburn Hospital and our rehabilitation hospitals at Burnley and Pendle.
The community rotation will include being a part of our community nutrition support team providing dietetic care to patients in their own homes and clinics.
The Paediatric Rotation will include being part of our Paediatric team and providing dietetic care to children on the paediatric ward and in paediatric clinics.
The WRD (Weight management, Renal and Diabetes) rotation will include being part of the WRD team and covering your own clinics in weight management and Diabetes as well as working with and providing support to specialist Renal, Diabetes and Weight Management Dietitians.
Working for our organisation
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust is a large integrated health care organisation providing acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire in the heart of the North West. We are a specialist centre for many services including hepatobiliary, vascular, head and neck and cancer
services, specialist cardiology services, a digestive diseases unit and being a network provider of Neonatal Intensive Care.
The department has over 40 Dietitians as well as Assistants and Assistant Practitioners and is well known for its innovation and development. It covers a wide geographical area and the post holder will be expected to attend all our hospital sites, community clinics and domiciliary visits therefore a car driver/owner would be desirable. The department offers training to all placements of dietetic students and the post holder will be expected to be involved in the clinical teaching and assessments of students on placement and training will be provided.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note – Student Dietitians approaching the end of their training are welcome to apply, tailored employment options are available that will allow new graduates to commence in post as a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner until HCPC registration is received. We also accept applications from “return to practice” Dietitians and again tailored employment options and training packages are available to regain HCPC registration
Dear Potential Applicant,
It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
- This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
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- Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.
Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)
If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.
The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.
The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.
This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post
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