Job overview

Are you looking for a new and exciting role?  We are looking for an enthusiastic team player to join our Dietetic Team at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.  This is an exciting and innovative Band 5 rotational dietitian post working within primary and secondary care across East Sussex.

As a band 5 Dietitian within ESHT you will be supported in clinical rotations across the acute and community settings. Duties include providing specialist advice to Stroke, Frailty, Surgery, Gastroenterology and Orthopaedics inpatients in the acute hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals and outpatient clinics.

You will liaise closely with the patient’s relatives and carers regarding ongoing nutritional care and discharge planning.  You will also provide expert nutritional advice and knowledge to the wider MDT. In community settings you will support patients in face to face clinics, via virtual/telephone clinics, as well as in their home and in care-home settings, to manage their oral and enteral nutritional requirements.

Our close knit and supportive Dietetic Department includes over 40 clinicians and associated staff working across the specialities of community nutrition support, diabetes, gastroenterology, inpatients, intensive care, oncology, paediatrics, prescribing support and rehabilitation.  Our department also includes Primary Care Network (PCN) dietitians, plus our apprentice dietitians and trainee Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) dietitians.  

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for dietetic management of a range of patients (using specialist knowledge and skills), including: general medical inpatients, surgical inpatients, rehab inpatients, general outpatients, community based nutrition support patients living in their own homes and residential homes.

To undertake regular outpatient phone clinics and a face to face general outpatient clinic.

To undertake patient group education sessions in specialist areas including Cardiac rehab and Coeliac disease.

To provide relevant training to Nursing staff, Catering staff, patients and their carers and third sector organisations. 

To develop and audit resources to support and identify educational development within East Sussex Healthcare, acting as a resource for specialist information.

To support training and supervision of student dietitians during their clinical placements.

To work as an integral member of the dietetic team supporting other team members as required.

To undertake regular audit of services provided.

Please refer to the job description attached.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by  7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.