Band 6 Specialist Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian
Do you want to be part of an award-winning, innovative, friendly team?
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS foundation Trust Home Enteral Feeding Team (HEFT) has several exciting opportunities to join their well-established, experienced team following a successful bid for further expansion.
We are looking for a Dietitian with skills in Enteral feeding to join our dynamic team.
Main duties of the job
As a specialist Home Enteral Feed Dietitian you will:
- have an exciting, challenging and varied caseload within unique settings, offering specialist care in the community to patients in their own homes, nursing/care homes and specialist centres in the county
- work as an autonomous practitioner caring for a dedicated caseload of enterally fed patients
- work within the HEFT MDT and wider MDTs including: neurology, learning disability and palliative care teams, to name a few
- have the opportunity to extend your scope of practice with practical tube competencies
- utilise well developed communication skills to liaise with members of diverse MDTs
- have the opportunity to undertake research and further post-graduate study at Master level
- have the opportunity of flexible working, with the option of some remote home working as requested
Well-being support is available to you to help manage more complex caseloads.
For more information on the roles and responsibilities of this vacancy please view the attached job description.