• Job Description

  Req#: C9150-25-0316?language=en&page=379&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  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 withwell-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

  Main duties of the job

  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.

  About us

  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?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto 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.

  Details

  Date posted

  16 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  150-CP1599-PC-A

  Job locations

  Uckfield

  Uckfield

  TN22 5AW

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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."**

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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."**

  Person Specification

  Qualifications & Professional Registration

  Essential

  • Registered with Health Professions Council
  • BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD e.g., FODMAP

  Desirable

  • Relevant validated clinical courses
  • Involvement in specialist interest groups

  Experience

  Essential

  • 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

  Desirable

  • Audit and evaluation experience

  Knowledge, Skills & Experience

  Essential

  • 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

  Essential

  • Full drivers license with access to own vehicle

  Person Specification

  Qualifications & Professional Registration

  Essential

  • Registered with Health Professions Council
  • BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD e.g., FODMAP

  Desirable

  • Relevant validated clinical courses
  • Involvement in specialist interest groups

  Experience

  Essential

  • 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

  Desirable

  • Audit and evaluation experience

  Knowledge, Skills & Experience

  Essential

  • 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

  Essential

  • Full drivers license with access to own vehicle

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Uckfield

  Uckfield

  TN22 5AW

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Uckfield

  Uckfield

  TN22 5AW

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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