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Are you an experienced, enthusiastic, motivated Dietitian? Would you like to develop your people management and clinical leadership skills? Are you looking to join an established dietetics team? If so, come and join our inpatient mental health dietetics service in Derbyshire as our Clinical and Operational Lead Dietitian.

This post will provide leadership in the operational management of the team and be responsible for the clinical delivery of dietetics across the mental health inpatient wards in Derbyshire. 

About us: We receive a range of referrals for people who are receiving assessment and treatment of their mental health and require support with their nutrition, including nutrition support, disordered eating, weight management, diabetes and supporting service users with increased cardiovascular risk.

The successful applicant will join a small and friendly team of dietitians working in the inpatient mental health dietetics service and be part of a wider group of senior dietitians working in services across the trust including community adult and CAMHS eating disorders services and forensic mental health services for professional support. 

The post will be based at the Kingsway Hospital in Derby; however, ability to travel to various locations across Derbyshire is required. The service also covers inpatient mental health wards in North Derbyshire and the post could be part based in Chesterfield on request.

Main duties of the job

·       Operational leadership and management inpatient dietetic service including service development/provision, leading team meetings, managing staffing and non-staffing related budgets, recruitment, training, staff sickness/absence, service deployment across sites, service risk assessment, meeting service operational KPI/targets, provide management and clinical supervision

·       Provide highly specialist knowledge, skills and advice to service users

·       Be a source of expertise for staff and other professionals as part of the wider inpatient multi-disciplinary teams

·       Use evidence-based, person- centred principles to provide highly specialised assessment, diagnosis, planning, evaluation and co-ordination of dietetic interventions

·       Carry a defined clinical caseload (based on demand) and support other dietitians within the team

·       Be responsible for the development and delivery of nutritional training to other health care professionals.

·       Lead on catering improvement projects/meeting hospital food standards as service capacity allows

·       Involvement in student training

·       Identify, initiate and implement service development projects including audit, contribute to the development of policies and procedures relating to nutritional care and developing guidelines for the dietetic service using evidenced based practice

·       Attend the inpatient nutrition steering group to represent dietetics

·       Attend Operational meetings

Working for our organisation

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service 
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities