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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Contact
- Address
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Human Resources Department
- Northumbria House
- 7/8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Business Park
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE27 0QJ
- Contact Number
- 0191 2031415 Option 2
Advanced Dietitian
Accepting applications until: 23-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 23-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Rake Lane
- Tref
- North Shields
- Cod post
- NE29 8NH
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term 12 months)
- Oriau
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Oncology
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
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.
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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.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
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 patient’s 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
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Post Graduate Diploma/ Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and RD and HCPC current Registration Registered Dietitian.
- Relevant postgraduate qualification or training in specialist area of practice
- For a paediatric role will need to demonstrate completion of module 1 of the paediatric dietetic modular training course.
- At all times act in accordance to the HCPC codes of professional practice for dietitians.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Qualified non-medical prescriber
- For a paediatric role completion Module 2 of the paediatric dietetic modular training course (or will be expected to complete when in post)
- Teaching Qualification.
Experience and knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Advanced theoretical and practical experience within a Nutrition and Dietetic specialty.
- Relevant and specialised clinical dietetic experience e.g. paediatrics, diabetes, or clinical adults across a variety of settings such as inpatients, community or primary care
- Evidence of strategic planning.
- Broad clinical experience.
- Experience of initiating, leading and carrying out audit.
- Significant experience in leadership
- Experience of student training.
- Knowledge and experience of adult education models and facilitation of groups
- Can show experience of service development.
- Can show experience of change management.
- Experience of working as part of an MDT.
- Evidence of appropriate CPD
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of involving service users/carers in service development.
- Evidence of contributing to the CPD of others.
- Experience of initiating change.
- For a diabetes role Evidence of DAFNE educator status and insulin pump training
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
- Evidence of managing people effectively and being able to demonstrate leadership experience and skills.
Other requirements
Meini prawf hanfodol
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Nicola Cunningham
- Teitl y swydd
- Dietetic Team Lead / Specialist Oncology Dietitian
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01670 564006
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