Job Title: Acute Dietician

Division: Unplanned & Integrated Care

Band: 5

Salary: £27,055 - £32,934 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Acute Dietician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

We have an opportunity at Medway Hospital for an enthusiastic Band 5 Dietitian to join our friendly team of dietitians. We have recently expanded our team and are looking for dietitians who are able to provide evidence-based care to be part of our forward thinking department.

Working in a supportive team of therapists, and specifically in a growing dietetic team, you will be responsible for providing dietetic care to a varied patient group including frailty, respiratory, general medical wards, care of the elderly, short stay and surgical assessment units.

You will also have the opportunity to gain experience alongside... senior Dietitians in gastroenterology, surgery, critical care and oncology. As you develop you will be involved in supervision of student placements and Dietetic assistants, and play a key role in raising the profile of dietetics across the trust and within the MDT.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly?   In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us. 

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amelia Lythgoe Job title: Clinical Lead Dietitian Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01634 833848
Gillingham UK

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