Specialist Dietitian

Job overview

This exciting rotational role has opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills in a variety of specialist areas including heart & lung transplant, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, burns and plastics, orthopaedics and trauma.  Within all rotations you will have the opportunity to support patients’ nutritional needs when critically ill or requiring intensive care following surgery.  With support from our senior specialist dietitians, you will continue to develop skills in more complex nutrition support including parenteral nutrition.  

Be part of our passionate dietetic team at MFT where we have vision & motivation to empower people to achieve their goals, feel better & live longer. Here you’ll enrich your career in one of the largest NHS Trusts in England. You’ll be a highly valued member of our amazingly diverse seventy strong dietetic team, who make a real difference across 4 hospital sites. Based at Wythenshawe Teaching Hospital, you’ll be close to vibrant Manchester, enjoying its culture and excellent transport links; whilst working in the relatively calm surroundings of a suburban hospital. As we work together to improve the services provided to our local community & those accessing our regional specialist services, you & your patients will benefit from the biggest electronic record system & innovative online patient portal.

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With a recognised dietetics degree or equivalent & registered with the HCPC; you’ll assess the nutritional condition of patients, make dietetic diagnoses, give therapeutic treatment options, & provide evidenced-based tailored advice. As the consistent practitioner, you’ll review outcomes to facilitate a patient’s goals.

Your advanced communication skills will produce records achieving national & local standard. An empathetic clinician, you’ll show compassion in difficult situations.

As a valued member of multi-disciplinary services, you’ll work with highly skilled specialist nurses, doctors, speech & language therapists, & psychiatrists.

You can make a significant contribution to improving patient care through quality and safety initiatives and other clinical governance activities.  Why not participate in our multisite working groups by writing an article for our health & wellbeing newsletter, presenting at a CPD event, or supporting the preregistration training programme. 

We develop our workforce, here you’ll have access to regular coaching, supervision & yearly appraisal.  Whether beginning your band 6 competencies or wanting to advance them, we can support your aspirations.

If you desire more opportunities, consider the career paths of your colleagues who have accessed research training, undertaken a non-medical prescribing course, developed their leadership skills, & expanded their educator abilities.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.