Advertised location: Airdrie
Advertised salary: Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
Employment type: Permanent

About The Organisation
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role
The successful post holder will deliver specialist dietetic intervention and management of the Head & Neck Cancer caseload.

This will include providing a dietetic service to:

• In patients within specialist ward
• Outpatient clinics.

The successful candidate will be required to work at a specialist level. They will be required to use previous experience working within the identified specialities to deliver expert evidence-based dietetic assessment, treatment, and advice.

The successful candidate will require previous experience managing complex enteral feeding.

Willingness to undertake training in parenteral feeding.

The post holder will be required to provide cover and/or support to the hospital Dietetic Team in the management of patients referred to the Dietetic Department when required.

The post will involve both inpatient and outpatient working, which will require flexibility in work patterns.

Multidisciplinary working is essential.

To provide support and mentorship to junior members of staff within the Dietetic Team and provide peer support as indicated.

To participate in student training programme as required.

In this key role, you will:
To communicate and receive complex and sensitive information and present this in an understandable form to patients which may include giving unwelcome or difficult to accept information.

To develop evidence based nutritional educational material, with other specialist dietitians in their field for patient/healthcare professional use,

Be professionally and legally accountable and responsible for the provision of clinical dietetic services in specialist area of practice.

To act as an independent expert practitioner selecting, managing, planning, evaluating and delivering the most appropriate treatment programmes for patients, using appropriate nutritional assessment techniques and equipment, seeking peer support only as and when necessary.

To use motivational and negotiation skills with patients to comply with treatment programmes and use empathy, reassurance and analysis to uncover social/psychological factors which may affect compliance in order to facilitate long term lifestyle changes.

What You'll Bring:

• Registered Dietitian with valid HCPC Registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice

What we Offer
As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Maureen Lees, Profession Lead - Dietetics on maureen.lees@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Adnan Saddique, Recruitment Administrator on adnan.saddique@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interested?

Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, right‑to‑work requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application

You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack

Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply early.