Job summary
- Main area
- Dietetics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-CP1599-PC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Uckfield
- Town
- Uckfield
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Dietitian in Gastroenterology
Band 7
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Dietitian in Gastroenterology to join the Community Dietetic Service covering High Weald, Lewes & Havens.
The successful applicant will be an active member of the Community Dietetics Team with well-developed team working, communication, interpersonal and supervisory skills.
Experience of gastroenterology, and delivering complex nutritional support, including enteral tube feeding is essential. The post holder will be the clinical lead in gastroenterology for the department.
You will need to be an active and integral member of the Dietetic Team, in addition to being a highly skilled autonomous practitioner working across sites, running out-patient clinics and patient home visits
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership for Gastroenterology, ensuring effective governance for staffing work in the service.
To lead on ensuring staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
To embed the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, including implementing the Calderdale competency framework.
To provide specialist clinical assessment, intervention and clinical advice for highly complex patients.
To develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**"Please note: This role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered.
Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website to assess their likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role."**
Person specification
Qualifications & Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered with Health Professions Council
- BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD e.g., FODMAP
Desirable criteria
- Relevant validated clinical courses
- Involvement in specialist interest groups
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant Gastroenterology Dietetic experience/practice
- Experience of working alongside medical Consultants and GPs on Enteral Feeding
- Contributing to clinical education of other practitioners, students etc
- Experience of student and staff supervision
Desirable criteria
- Audit and evaluation experience
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge of Gastroenterology and professional practice
- Understanding of different treatments and medications required for gastroenterology conditions.
- Ability to work independently and manage own caseload
- Ability to negotiate, compromise and resolve conflict
- Good communication, interpersonal and critical appraisal skills
- Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments
Other
Essential criteria
- Full drivers license with access to own vehicle
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty Frost
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Dietitian and Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01825 721 518
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