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Are you soon to qualify as a Dietitian or are you a Band 5 looking to gain more experience? Has your dietetic placement or current post so far shown that you flourish and enjoy working as part of a smaller, supportive dietetic team?

Then look no further than our friendly and experienced dietetic department by the sea in Weston-super-Mare. We are a team of 10 Dietitians underpinned by 5 Dietetic support workers plus administrative support, working as part of UHBW’s larger Adult Nutrition and Dietetic Service based at the BRI.

We would like to offer you a comprehensive development package incorporating preceptorship, training and regular clinical supervision to launch your dietetic career in the right direction. From the beginning of your career with us at Weston General Hospital, you will have a varied caseload within a range of clinical specialities which would often take longer to achieve within larger departments with multiple Band 5 rotations.

You will benefit from working alongside specialist dietitians with expertise in a range of specialities including gastroenterology, diabetes, critical care, surgery, frailty, food policy, and oncology. You will also gain experience in supporting food policy initiatives, promoting MUST screening and you will have opportunities to deliver training and education to patients and healthcare staff.

Main duties of the job

Our band 5 positions typically cover a range of admission, medical, surgical and rehabilitation wards. The majority of the caseload will be inpatient facing, but outpatient services are also provided by our band 5 post holders to general clinic and MDT lipid clinic.

You will benefit from working alongside specialist dietitians with expertise in a range of specialities including gastroenterology, diabetes, critical care, surgery, frailty, food policy, and oncology. You will also gain experience in supporting food policy initiatives, promoting MUST screening and you will have opportunities to deliver training and education to patients and healthcare staff. This includes the clinical teaching and assessment of dietetic students from the University of Plymouth joining us on their A, B and C placements.

Team members are required to work 2 bank holidays each year, and in the future work 1 in every 4 Saturday which you will contribute to  with a corresponding day off in the working week. 

You would be joining us at an exciting time as Weston General Hospital evolves to meet the needs of the local population through the “Healthy Weston Programme”. For more information on "Healthy Weston’" Weston General Hospital and Weston-super-Mare please visit Healthy Weston (youtube.com).

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Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.