Band 7 Dietetic Team Lead - Surgery

Job summary

We have an exciting new opportunity for a band 7 dietitian to lead our surgical dietetic team which provides dietetic care to a wide range of surgical patients across our 3 hospital sites. This includes input into our new elective surgery hub at Solihull hospital, where you will support the development of dietetic services peri-operatively with a focus on facilitating an early discharge from hospital.

The role will provide oversight to a range of surgical specialities, including colorectal, trauma and orthopaedics, vascular, urology and general surgery. You will be supported by our other specialist dietetic teams and the role will include cover for parenteral nutrition at Solihull hospital when required.

This offers you a fantastic opportunity to showcase your dietetic skills and support patients with a diverse range of presentations. Whether you're an established band 7 looking for a new opportunity or an enthusiastic band 6 looking for a new challenge we would love to hear from you.

You will be passionate about improving care, quality and the overall experience whilst making a difference to the people who access our services. You will also have strong leadership skills to enable you to support and provide advice to others.

In return you can expect to join like-minded people who deliver unequivocal excellence in all aspects of their role and want to make a difference to the communities we live and work in. You will mirror our Trust values of being Kind, Connected and Bold.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

You will be able to progress your clinical knowledge within the key surgical areas and act as a source of expertise for the wider department. Multidisciplinary team working will be essential, you will have a key role in promoting nutrition and raising the profile of dietetics across the Trust. Clinical work will be across a variety of settings, we are committed to flexible working and supporting your work life balance.

You will also have opportunity to develop your leadership skills, with responsibility for the day to day management of a small team of dietitians and dietetic assistants. The post will sit within our wider medical surgical team, a dynamic team which is continually striving for excellence.

We have a strong focus on quality improvement and service development, we look forward to working with you to develop dietetic provision within surgery. We are supportive of dietitians undertaking research and committed to your personal and career development. The department also has a strong focus on wellbeing and regular events to support this.

Therapies at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals as part of UHB is committed to providing a 7-day therapy service with participation in bank holiday cover for dietetics.

The Trust is a multi-site organisation, therefore you may be required to work at any Trust site and you may need to change your normal place of work either temporarily or on a permanent basis as a result of development or re-organisation of Trust services.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.

A levels or equivalent qualification

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