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Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is the largest community health and care provider in Sussex. Our expert teams deliver a wide range of medical, nursing and therapeutic care to over 10,000 people a day, serving a total population of 1.3 million.
We pride ourselves in providing excellent care at the heart of the community. In July 2018, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) gave us an improved ‘Good’ rating, with ‘Outstanding’ features. 96% of our patients said they would recommend our services to their friends and family, and we attribute this to the hard work and dedication of each and every one of our teams.
We offer our staff a multitude of benefits; flexible working, free health and wellbeing checks, three tax efficient workplace nurseries rated ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted, and a wide range of exciting learning and development opportunities including apprenticeships, rotations, and external courses and conferences.
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Highly Specialist Dietitian in Gastroenterology
Accepting applications until: 29-Jun-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-Jun-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Uckfield
- Tref
- Uckfield
- Cod post
- TN22 5AW
- Major / Minor Region
- East Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Part time - 15 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Dietetics
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We have an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Dietitian in Gastroenterology to join the Community Dietetic Service covering High Weald, Lewes & Havens.
The successful applicant will be an active member of the Community Dietetics Team with well-developed team working, communication, interpersonal and supervisory skills.
Experience of gastroenterology, and delivering complex nutritional support, including enteral tube feeding is essential. The post holder will be the clinical lead in gastroenterology for the department.
You will need to be an active and integral member of the Dietetic Team, in addition to being a highly skilled autonomous practitioner working across sites, running out-patient clinics and patient home visits
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To provide clinical leadership for Gastroenterology, ensuring effective governance for staffing work in the service.
To lead on ensuring staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
To embed the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, including implementing the Calderdale competency framework.
To provide specialist clinical assessment, intervention and clinical advice for highly complex patients.
To develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
a) To be responsible, clinical supervise and support clinicians working within the service with mostly complex gastroenterology case management; however occasionally support with home enteral feeding caseload will be required.
b) To work alongside other leads to manage and supervise the support staff workloads, integrating skill sharing initiatives.
c) To be responsible for organising the undergraduate dietetic student placement (A) within the relevant areas of work and support the band 6 staff supervising the students.
d) To provide performance information to operational managers to support the delivery of KPIs, management of demand and capacity and to inform future workforce, skill mix requirements and service development in the gastroenterology aspect of the service.
e) To report incidents, and manage incidents and complaints to reduce risk. To share learning from incidents and risk with the team and wider organisation as appropriate.
f) To ensure direct line reports attend statutory and mandatory training.
g) To organise and deliver in service training to clinical staff and to the wider MDT as appropriate.
h) To be responsible for ensuring effective induction for all staff within the area of responsibility and relevant students.
i) To contribute to the recruitment of clinical staff.
j) To provide all aspects of management for direct reports; including carrying out their appraisal, manage sickness absence and allocate work.
k) To raise any significant budgetary issues with the budget holder (e.g. requirement to use agency staff), and to contribute to the annual business planning process.
**"Please note: This role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered.
Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website to assess their likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role."**
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications & Professional Registration
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Registered with Health Professions Council
- BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD e.g., FODMAP
Meini prawf dymunol
- Relevant validated clinical courses
- Involvement in specialist interest groups
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Relevant Gastroenterology Dietetic experience/practice
- Experience of working alongside medical Consultants and GPs on Enteral Feeding
- Contributing to clinical education of other practitioners, students etc
- Experience of student and staff supervision
Meini prawf dymunol
- Audit and evaluation experience
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Advanced knowledge of Gastroenterology and professional practice
- Understanding of different treatments and medications required for gastroenterology conditions.
- Ability to work independently and manage own caseload
- Ability to negotiate, compromise and resolve conflict
- Good communication, interpersonal and critical appraisal skills
- Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments
Other
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Full drivers license with access to own vehicle
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Kirsty Frost
- Teitl y swydd
- Highly Specialist Dietitian and Operational Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01825 721 518
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