Advanced DietitianNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our department to expand our Oncology Team. This post is a 12 month fixed term post where you will work alongside the Cancer Prehab Team at Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust, a pilot service set up in January 2024 to deliver a Prehabilitation Pathway to those diagnosed with various tumour types.

The job will involve working within the Prehab Team, providing a specialist dietetic oncology service via face to face clinics, telephone consultations, home visits, group education and service development. You will work closely with members of the Prehab Team which include a Physiotherapy Lead, two Health Coaches and Administrative Support and the Oncology Multidisciplinary Team. You will be responsible for the co-leadership of this service.

This role is Trustwide with face to face clinics delivered across various hospital sites and a requirement for travel.

Please note: for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval from your current manager and have completed documentation required beforehand (see secondment policy) as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The post requires the successful applicant:

• To act as a Specialist Oncology Dietitian within a multi-agency team, managing a complex & diverse caseload within specialist field.
• To provide highly specialised dietetic assessment, diagnosis & treatments using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• To provide clinical education, supervision & support to staff & students within specialist area.
• To provide specialist advice to families, carers, others health & social care professionals.
• To contribute to planning, development & auditing of the Cancer Prehab Team within specialist area.
• To provide a quality a Nutrition and Dietetic Service in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust.
• To work as part of multidisciplinary teams across Acute & Community Teams.
• To be an active member of the team and play a vital role in patient service delivery, education and resource development.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:
• engages, enables
• uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement
• facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
• To supervise qualified & unqualified staff within the team.

We participate in student training & all of our staff are required to take part in student training with support provided to help you in this role.

Job description

The post holder will be responsible for a diverse caseload of Oncology patients within North Tyneside & Northumberland in a variety of settings including face to face & telephone outpatient clinics, Oncology Day Units & Palliative Care Units, within patients own homes & as part of group education delivery.

You must be able to work both autonomously & as part of a team within the wider MDT. It is also expected you will contribute to student training and act as a support for both qualified & unqualified members of the team. We encourage participation in regular CPD activities & we hold regular departmental & team meetings including a monthly journal club allowing the opportunity to learn from training, case discussions & peer support.

The post holder is expected to:

• Work closely within the Prehab Service & assist with service development
• Co Lead Cancer Prehab service alongside Physio Lead
• Manage a busy & complex caseload of patients with a variety of Oncological diseases which may include a caseload of Home Enterally Tube Fed patients.
• Provide evidence based interventions to help optimise patients prior to cancer treatment.
• Be an active part of the North East Oncology Group
• Attend regional pre-habilitation meetings.
• Support Health Coaches & provide weekly supervision.
• Deliver highly specialised dietetic advice to Oncology patients & their families / carers
• Work in a strategic manner & have a positive attitude to caseload & specialist area
• Act as a specialist resource for patients, their families & other health professionals
• Be able to implement change using advanced counselling & motivational interviewing techniques
• Plan and organise education & training sessions for colleagues, student dietitians, other health professionals, & other outside agencies
• Advise and formulate policies relating to specialist area of work (Oncology)
• Participate in audit & research
• Contribute to, develop, monitor & comply with standards & policies for the dietetic department, prehab team & the Trust

About us

The Nutrition and Dietetic service is made up of 4 teams; acute, diabetes, paediatrics and community. We are a large department of nearly 50 staff, predominately based between the 3 main sites.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.