Job summary
- Main area
- Dietetics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 7 months (Fixed term until 31.03.2025)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6463010
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Diabetes Transition Young Adult (TYA) Specialist Dietitian
Band 7
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
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Job overview
Stockport diabetes is delighted to be successful in being selected as a site for the newly launched national Transition and Young Adult Care (TYA) Project Pilot, with all the exciting opportunities and potential this brings.
This national project is part of the joint NHS Diabetes and CYP Transformation Programme to improve care and outcomes for children and young adults, living with diabetes, age 16 – 25 years. The role is until March 2025. Key areas of focus for this programme are improving care for those transitioning from paediatric to adult care and addressing the poorer outcomes for children and young adults with diabetes at transition age.
As a Pilot Site we have received funding to enable us to build the evidence base with regards to providing clinically effective TYA models.
The Service Specification for this TYA Pilot is a clinically led consensus approved by the National Children, Young Adults and Diabetes Oversight Group. The national vision for the pilots is that this model service specification will be implemented by all sites as a minimum standard.
There is the welcome expectation we develop innovative models of care; guided by patient led feedback and supported by different disciplines such as psychology practitioners and youth workers.
To achieve the aims of the Pilot Project we are recruiting dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking multidisciplinary professionals who have experience and knowledge of working with young adults with diabetes.
Main duties of the job
To contribute to Nutrition and Dietetic Services in Stockport by providing:
· To lead and develop the dietetic intervention of the Diabetes TYA pathway and MDT clinic
· To support the Diabetes TYA MDT in developing, establishing and evaluating the new emerging pathway
· Be responsible for planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating clinical case work within the Diabetes TYA service
· To provide evidence based, highly specialist knowledge and skills to the Diabetes TYA service
· To support the training, education and learning of the team and services across the system.
· Provide a key role in partnership working with patients, carers, the MDT, and wider statutory, private and voluntary sector services.
· To take a lead with quality improvements in the Diabetes TYA service
· To take responsibility for staff and student training and development.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Work as an autonomous specialist Dietitian to provide high quality service to agreed standards
- Provide a Nutrition and Dietetic Service to the Diabetes TYA service within Stockport
- Assist in developing and monitoring the Diabetes TYA service
- Attend relevant meetings and liaise with medical, nursing and other health
- Train staff, as necessary.
- Work in conjunction with CCG medicines management department to ensure optimal use of prescribable diabetes related products, when appropriate.
- Provide nutritional input on a weekly basis to multi-disciplinary meetings, to complete information on patient requirements
- Promote the role of the Dietitian in primary and secondary care settings to patients and health professionals including the management of nutrition and diabetes.
- Liaise with health care professionals to ensure consistent dietary advice is given by all team members and all aspects of care for the individual are planned, co-ordinated and integrated.
- Maintain professional standards ensuring that clinical practice is evidence based and complies with current guidelines for good practice.
- Assist in the updating and development of diet sheets and new teaching materials.
- Participate in the training of dietetic students when required
- Assist with training and updating health professionals regarding Nutrition and Dietetics
- Collect all data necessary to meet information requirements as directed
- Participate in quality assurance programmes and development and maintenance of service standards, policies and procedures.
- Undertake regular, appropriate, continuing personal and professional development
- development as agreed locally through objective setting and regular appraisal
- Work as a committed and effective member of the Diabetes TYA and Nutrition and Dietetic team in order to maximise the potential of the service and profession, to enable the provision of a co-ordinated service
- Any other duties appropriate to the grade as directed by the Team Leader
- Observe the provisions of, and adhere to, all Trust policies and procedures
- Comply with professional guidelines and Code of Conduct
See job description for more details.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (or equivalent qualification)
- • Registered dietitian – Health Professions Council
- Experience in nutritional management to masters level or equivalent
- Masters level or equivalent courses or experience in relevant speciality
Desirable criteria
- • UK driving licence
- • Member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA)
- • Member of BDA sub-group
- • Validated post-graduate training in diabetes
- • DAFNE educator
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Professional knowledge acquired through science degree
- • Knowledge of NHS policies
- • Understanding of the role of nutrition in adult medicine.
- • Understanding of multidisciplinary working in a acute setting
- • Specialist level of knowledge, understanding and clinical reasoning skills to support experience clinical practice in management of diabetes
- • Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key stakeholders across TYA pathway
Desirable criteria
- • Motivational skills training
- • DAFNE training
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Post-graduate experience in nutrition and dietetic care of patients
- • Experience of working with patients who require diabetes
- • Experience of working with patients who have long term conditions
- • Comprehensive, relevant and recent experience working in a wide variety of clinical areas
- • Experience in diabetes management
- • Experience of training healthcare and other professionals
- Use of insulin pumps
- Carbohydrate counting
- Young adults with diabetes
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using MUST assessments and care plans
- Gestational diabetes
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Good communication (written and verbal), negotiation and persuasive skills
- • Excellent time management and organisational skills
- • IT skills (nutritional analysis, word processing, email, inter/intranet searches.
- • Well motivated with a positive attitude to developing the service
- • Able to handle sensitive situations
- • Well-developed problem solving skills
- • Flexibility in handling work pressures
- • Strong commitment to personal development including maintaining own CPD portfolio
- • Able to work on own initiative
- • Able to work unsupervised in designated areas
- • Training and Group work skills
- Anthropometric equipment use and knowledge of application
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria
- • Able to work as a member of multi-disciplinary and dietetic teams
- • Ability to transport equipment e.g. portable weight scales, patient notes, presentation resources
- • Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service
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
- Louise Lowe
- Job title
- Integrated Nutrition and Dietetic Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07864954065
- Additional information
Adrienne Quirk
Inpatient Dietitians Team Lead
0161 419 5087
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