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Looking for a new job but do not want to relocate? Is health and wellbeing high on your agenda? Would you like to try flexible working from home in a 'virtual-only' role?

If your answers are yes…KCHFT Community Dietetics (Adults) team are looking for an experienced Dietitian to work in our friendly team. We are the largest Community Dietetics team in the South East with a total of 35 clinicians including a team of supportive managers.

We already employ a team of fully virtual dietitians and the successful candidate will be supported and integrated into our team. Your virtual clinical work will be varied including providing advice for conditions such as IBS and low FODMa Ps, coeliac disease, malnutrition, diabetes, weight management - and including virtual groups as well as 1 to 1 consultations. You will be mainly working via telephone calls - or video calls where clients prefer this more visual method of consultation.
Our team are involved in exciting service developments and QI projects where your opinion and input would be welcomed and valued.

You will have the opportunity to remotely access a wide range of specialist colleagues for supervision and support. You may wish to develop your knowledge and clinical skills in an area of your choice including Gastroenterology, Diabetes, Weight Management and Nutrition Support led by our Gastroenterology dietitian, Obesity and Diabetes dietitian, Nutrition support /Prescribing Lead dietitian and Neuro dietitian.

Our team is supported by dietetic assistants and dietetic assistant practitioners and we would welcome your additional support in training our unregistered staff including dietetic apprenticeships and dietetic students.

Wellbeing is high on our service agenda. Our team Health and Wellbeing champions provide regular updates- from money saving tips to meditation sessions, the team actively feedback on wellbeing and what would improve their work-life balance.

CQC have rated our trust as ‘Outstanding’. Their report stated “We found a healthy and authentic culture of valuing staff, openness, fairness and putting the patient at the heart of every policy, strategy and service delivered. Staff consistently told us they felt valued by their leaders and the organisation. Staff shared a great sense of pride in working for the trust”.

In addition to clinical work you will also have protected catch up time for administrative tasks, training and relevant CPD opportunities.

Please do get in touch to ask more about our innovative virtual community role.

Additional Working Pattern: Monday to Friday

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

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The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #team KCHFT, #cometocommunity.