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 Trafford General 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, you & your patients will benefit from the biggest electronic record system & innovative online patient portal.
Here you can really grow with the knowledge & guidance shared by our multi-sited dietetic working groups. Why not contribute by writing an article for our health & wellbeing newsletter or present at a CPD event.
Our coordinated preceptorship programme will assist you in the transition from learner to qualified practitioner and our well-established appraisal structure will support your personal aspirations.
Thinking about your long-term career, consider the paths of your experienced colleagues who have accessed research training, undertaken non-medical prescribing, advanced their clinical competencies, developed leadership skills, & expanded their educator abilities.
With good organisational & prioritisation skills, you’ll be a great addition to the small and friendly team at TGH covering general medicine, neurological, stroke and rehab inpatients. There will also be opportunity to develop your outpatient skills. You’ll provide exceptional nutritional care to acute wards & outpatient services.
You’ll assess the nutritional condition of patients, make dietetic diagnoses, give therapeutic treatment options, & provide evidenced-based advice. As the consistent practitioner, you’ll review outcomes, & adapt care plans to facilitate patient centred goals. Always ensuring medical, psychological, social, environmental & cultural needs are considered.
Your communication skills will produce records achieving national standards & local policy. An empathetic clinicianyou’ll build rapport & show compassion in difficult situations. You’ll deliver education programmes, developing your virtual and direct presentation skills.
As a member of multi-disciplinary services, you’ll work with highly skilled specialist nurses, doctors, speech and language therapists, podiatrists, & psychiatrists.
You require a recognised dietetics degree or equivalent & be registered with the HCPC to apply for this post.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England 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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 Green Plan which sets 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.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024