Band 6 Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support Dietitian

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Band 6 Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support Dietitian

The closing date is 06 July 2025

At UHB our vision is to Build Healthier lives. Our purpose is to improve the health of the people and communities through delivering the best patient care in line with our values of being Kind, Connected and Bold.

2025 is the year of Leadership at UHB and we are proud to invest and recognise the importance and value of the therapies services across our three hospitals.

Our communities are rich in diversity and present with a range of complex gastroenterological conditions - to that end we are thrilled to announce this opportunity for candidates with specialist interest in gastroenterology and nutrition support.

Within our Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support team you will work as a member of the Therapies Respiratory cluster and Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support team providing dietetic support for gastroenterology and nutritional support services across the Trust sites, working with the multidisciplinary gastro teams.

You will share the team's passion in improving care, quality and the overall experience whilst making a difference to the people who access our services. In return, you can expect to join like-minded people who deliver unequivocal excellence in all aspects of their role and who want to make a difference to the communities we live and work in.

As one of the largest foundation Trusts we can provide more challenge and more opportunities to ensure your career is always moving in the right direction.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary gastroenterology team across the Trust, providing a Dietetic service to inpatients and outpatients. You will accurately assess patients' clinical needs in a holistic manner using specialised knowledge and skills and a broad range of nutritional assessment skills, measurements and techniques.

Success in this role will see you provide dietetic advice and support to patients and their careers, taking into account ethical, cultural, religious, socio-economic and educational needs. You will liaise and communicate effectively with other members of the multidisciplinary team regarding inpatients and outpatients, advising and negotiating with the team to ensure optimal dietetic care for all patients.

You will develop and distribute appropriate evidence based dietary literature for gastroenterology patients and carers and participate in the implementation of service developments in dietetic gastroenterology and nutritional support services. You will supervise and actively participate in the training of student dietitians, student nurses and wider clinical teams.

We are committed to your personal and career development. We have a strong focus on quality improvement and service development, and we look forward to working with you to develop dietetic provision across gastroenterology services.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description

Person Specification Qualifications

• Current State Registration with HCPC

Experience

• Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in gastroenterology/surgery. This would usually be approximately 12 months.
• Demonstration of clinical experience of working with patients within speciality
• Ability to work as part of multidisciplinary team and dietetic team
• Understanding of audit, clinical effectiveness and its importance in the provision of a quality service
• Awareness of local needs, eg; ethnic minority and low income groups
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Evidence of presentations to groups
• Work in line with HCPC standards and BDA code of conduct
• Experience with managing patients requiring parenteral nutrition or complex nutritional needs
• Experience managing a critical care caseload

Additional Criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
• Able to adapt communication style to varied listeners one to one and in groups.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Insight into own CPD needs and appropriate strategies for addressing them.
• Enthusiasm for the development and promotion of the service and the ability to take initiative.
• Enthusiasm to work in speciality area.
• Evidence for CPD and demonstrates strategies for keeping up to date eg Involvement in appropriate Clinical Excellence Groups and Professional Body.
• Appropriately assertive.
• Good presentation and teaching skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrates ability to be a good team member and function effectively in the multidisciplinary team, leading where appropriate.
• Able to judge limits of skills/competence and recognise professional boundaries where appropriate.
• Supportive to other staff.
• Aims for excellence.
• Creative; looks for new ways of working.
• Prioritise own workload in demanding situations.
• Manage busy workload across several sites.
• Able to work under own initiative.
• Able to contribute to 7 day and extended hours service provision as appropriate.
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. where off site travel is required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc, it is essential to possess a full car driving licence.
• Evidence for attending speciality specific training courses for example FODMAPs/ St Marks/ BDA
• Member of the BDA.
• Member of BDA specialist interest group

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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