Professional Head of Nutrition and Dietetics
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Greater Stoke-on-Trent Area
Health / Beauty / Fitness
The successful candidate will lead the Dept on professional and clinical governance issues and be a source of professional expertise in the field of nutrition and dietetics for the Trust.
Responsible for providing support and clinical supervision to dietitians, dietetic assistants apprentice dietitians and students working within Nutrition and Dietetics. Assist the development of others within the department to encourage competent and confident provision of inpatient and outpatient nutrition and dietetic services through in-house training and competency assessment.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Hughes Job title: Head of Nursing Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01782674973
About the company
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) was created following the integration of Stafford Hospital with the University Hospitals of North Staffordshire, signalling a time of major, positive change in health services for the people of Staffordshire.
With recent investment of more than £250m local hospital services and facilities are being transformed, providing an opportunity for a bright and stable future.
Serving around three million people across Staffordshire and North Wales, UHNM is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country. Its 10,000+ strong workforce provides the full range of emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from our two hospitals in Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent.
The Trust also provides specialised services for three million people in a wider area, including neighbouring counties and North Wales. Our specialised services include cancer diagnosis and treatment, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, renal and dialysis services, neonatal intensive care, paediatric intensive care, trauma, respiratory conditions, spinal surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, complex orthopaedic surgery, laparoscopic surgery and the management of liver conditions.
Royal Stoke University Hospital, one of our two sites, is a large acute teaching hospital on the border of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. Our other site is County Hospital in Stafford. We are one of the largest Trusts and have one of the busiest emergency departments in the country. The Trust’s hospitals have more than 1,400 inpatient beds.
Our ambition over the coming years is to achieve our 2025Vision launched in 2014. This sets out our goal of becoming a world-class centre of clinical and academic achievement, where staff work together to ensure patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people want to come to learn, work and research.
Find out about our latest job opportunities at www.uhnm.nhs.uk