Diabetes Dietitian Team Leader

Job summary

Are you ready for a challenge and wanting to develop your existing specialist clinical and leadership skills? This is an exciting role offering a 12-month secondment opportunity and you would be joining our ambitious and forward-thinking therapies structure at an exciting time for Dietetics, Allied Health Professionals and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust. This post offers an opportunity for a Dietitian to take the next step in their career and really make a difference to service users. Our belief is that dietitians, nutrition nurses and support staff:

• Enable recovery
• Empower quality of life
• Bring independence and dignity to our patients

We are looking for an innovative individual who is driven to establish, shape and grow outstanding dietetic services across diabetes for our diverse population. Candidates will be joining a service at a time of challenge but also considerable opportunity. You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to quickly establish and foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders to lead a small dietetic team who work across paediatric and adult diabetes services.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be familiar with supporting people, carers and or parents with dietary advice to optimise their blood glucose control and quality of life; working closely with the diabetes MDTs to ensure a high-quality seamless service to these patients and with an increasing exposure to insulin pumps. We have a friendly, supportive and approachable MDT who champion the dietitian and our service promotes one to one and group educational care. As a service we provide DAFNE group sessions and the Roche carbohydrate counting course to our service users and are soon to pilot the VICTOR course with our adult service users. Our paediatric diabetes team is renowned regionally for their success in supporting patients to successfully lower the HbA1c levels and the post-holder will get the opportunity to work with patients requiring insulin pumps. The duties of this exciting role will include supporting service users primarily within a diabetes outpatient setting and leading a small team of four dietitians within diabetes. As well as the clinical role the appointee will be overseeing implementation of best nutritional care for the patients within the Trust within the field of diabetes.