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Due to a period of parental leave, we are able to offer this fixed term opportunity to a dietitian with leadership and management skills. You will be based in our Healthy Living Service, which covers both community and inpatients.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced and highly motivated Dietitian to join our Dietetics Service as a Band 7 Clinical Lead Dietitian supporting Mental Health and Older People’s Services across Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6 or existing Band 7 Dietitian looking to further develop their clinical leadership skills within a diverse and rewarding specialist area. You will provide professional leadership, expert clinical support, supervision and operational oversight to a team of Dietitians working across inpatient and community mental health services.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting service delivery, workforce development and clinical governance whilst maintaining a specialist clinical caseload.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead Dietitian, you will act as the first point of contact for complex clinical issues and provide expert support to Dietitians working across inpatient and community mental health services.
You will work closely with Dietetic Leadership, Allied Health Professional (AHP) leaders, Operational Managers, Matrons and multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective and high-quality nutrition care is delivered across all services.
The role combines clinical expertise, leadership, supervision, and operational coordination.
If you are an experienced Dietitian looking to take the next step in your leadership career, we would love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 – 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To create and adapt temporary pathways for the cover of services whilst there is a gap in dietetic provision and keep the ward teams up to date with these
To facilitate and lead the team with this cover – checking the duty desk, managing caseload, allocating out reviews and referrals. If the role has more time allocated for clinical cover there is more ability to complete more of the remote assessments and reviews to take the pressure off the rest of the team.
You will provide clinical supervision to the band 6 OPS CMHT dietitian and band 6 WAA CMHT dietitian. You will also provide ad hoc support to band 5s for referrals and complex cases with the team. The band 5s require considerable support when starting in the roles with embedding in the teams, and you will need to support with getting them attending the right meetings, how the service runs, the dietetic role, supporting with team dynamics and difficulties embedding etc. As they are the only dietitian in the service they require regular check ins and needs lots of support in the first 6 months.
- Support Dietitians managing complex nutritional presentations, including:
- Severe malnutrition
- Enteral feeding patients
- Nasogastric feeding
- Eating disorders
- Complex risk management situations
- Patients experiencing significant physical health deterioration
- Escalate concerns appropriately to Dietetic Leadership, AHP Leadership, Operational Managers and Matrons.
- Attend professional meetings, Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs) and multidisciplinary discussions to support junior staff.
- Liaise with specialist services including:
- Acute Trust Diabetes Teams
- Physical Health In-Reach Services
- Specialist Dietitians
- External healthcare providers
- Ensure robust and evidence-based clinical practice across services.
- Provide clinical supervision
- Offer ongoing support and coaching to Band 5 Dietitians.
- Support newly appointed staff to embed within multidisciplinary teams.
- Facilitate informal supervision, case discussions and reflective practice.
- Provide support following incidents, adverse events or patient deaths.
- Promote staff wellbeing and resilience.
- Support team cohesion and professional development.
- Develop and maintain temporary cover arrangements across services.
- Ensure ward teams and stakeholders are informed regarding service changes.
- Monitor referrals and caseloads.
- Manage workload distribution across the team.
- Review and allocate dietetic referrals appropriately.
- Support delivery of remote assessments and reviews where required.
- Ensure equitable and safe allocation of clinical workload.
- Act as the key dietetic link for food provision issues.
- Liaise with Mitie and relevant catering leads to ensure timely resolution of issues.
- Coordinate induction programmes for all new Dietitians joining the team.
- Develop induction timetables and facilitate onboarding.
- Ensure new staff members are integrated into relevant teams and meetings.
- Support competence development, confidence building and professional growth.
- Provide regular check-ins for newly appointed Band 5 Dietitians, particularly during their first six months in post
Qualifications
- Registered Dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
Skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities and support operational service delivery.
Experience
- Significant post-registration experience working within specialist dietetic services including experience of managing complex clinical caseloads.
- Experience providing clinical supervision and leadership.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience within mental health services and/or older people’s services.
- Quality improvement or service development experience.
- Experience supporting workforce development and recruitment.
Values
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
All new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust’s commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorize Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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