Nutritional Support Dietitian

This is a great opportunity to join our dynamic, integrated dietetic department. We provide a clinical dietetic service to adults and children across a range of specialist services in Acute and Community Hospitals and, the wider Primary Care Setting.

We also have excellent links with Pharmacy/Prescribing and Health Promotion Teams.

This post: 0.6 WTE Band 6 Dietitian NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT TEAM

We are looking for an experienced, innovative Dietitian with excellent clinical, organisational, communication, digital and people skills to work within the Nutritional Support Team (NST). A move to electronic patient records will take place in the Autumn of 2023.

This post will cover a number of specialities including oncology, GI and neurological conditions across primary care.

NHS Fife operates a non prescribing ordering model for both Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) and Enteral Feeds and, the post will help support the work of the prescribing support dietitian with regard to ongoing cost effectiveness and appropriate prescribing.

The base will be Lynebank hospital with the NST. The team comprises 9 dietitians (including a prescribing support dietitian), 1.0 HCSW and, 1.0 administration support. The caseload will include home enterally fed patients, and a number of Nutritional Support clinics including specialist MDT clinics across Fife. The post requires close liaison with many of the CNS’s, Palliative Care Nurses and Advanced Practice Nurses.

You will be supported by the Clinical Lead Dietitian for the Nutritional Support Team and, also by your peers within the NST and across the department.

The Nutrition & Clinical Dietetic Service
This is a Fife wide service, with a leadership structure arranged around clinical teams. These are Acute, Adult Weight Management & Child Healthy Weight, Diabetes, Mental Health & Learning Disabilities, Nutritional Support, Older People, Infant Nutrition, CYP & Paediatrics. We work collaboratively with the Dietitian and Nutritionists in the Health Promotion Food & Health Teams. Fife has a Non Prescribing Ordering Model for Oral Nutritional Supplements and enteral feeds. We have a range of services using dietetic led models of care and non-medical prescribing Dietitians.

The Dietetic Service provides undergraduate and graduate Dietetic student training for B & C placements every year. All staff participates in the delivery and organisation of the programmes. New graduates to Fife will have an opportunity to participate in rotation across teams, as part of their continuing development. The Department arranges regular postgraduate training sessions and supports staff in their continuing professional development. The Service has good administration and IT support, social media and online resources.

Registered with HCPC, you will have the skills, competencies and experience appropriate for the post. Induction and training will be provided to facilitate transition into your new role.

If you want to find out more about this role, please email Paula Young - Interim Clinical Lead at paula.young@nhs.scot or Margy Thomson - Joint interim Head of Service at margy.thomson@nhs.scot to arrange an informal discussion.

Unsuccessful candidates may be offered the option to join the dietetic bank.

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.