Dietitian

Job Description

Dietitian

£25,000 – £35,000

Who are we?

The Slimming Clinic is the UK’s largest group of medical slimming clinics. Over 34 years, we’ve helped countless people to lose weight, improve their lifestyle and health, and gain confidence. We offer medically supervised weight loss treatments to clients, led by experienced doctors and supportive clinic teams. The Slimming Clinic is in a period of huge growth and development, opening brand new clinics and introducing new elements to create a holistic weight loss service including dieticians, movement coaches and NLP practitioners. We aim to provide a safe, effective and complete weight loss service across the whole of the UK, and we are looking to recruit the best candidates to deliver our gold standard vision to our clients.

Why work for The Slimming Clinic?

• Our clinic teams support clients through their weight loss journey, and being part of such a positive, transformative change is incredibly rewarding. We are changing lives for the better and that satisfaction of achievement is shared between our clients and our teams.
• We are a rapidly developing company, opening brand new clinics across the UK and implementing exciting new plans. You have the opportunity to be part of that company development from the very beginning, developing your own clinic and team before the doors have even opened.
• We provide generous compensation, great benefits, fantastic training and a supportive company structure to ensure you are set up to succeed and enjoy every day.

What is the Dietitian role?

We’re looking for an engaged, enthusiastic, qualified dietitian to deliver our vision and strategy in our Manchester clinic. This clinic will be brand new, with a fantastic new team and kitted out with the latest equipment for delivering an incredible service.

You’ll be focused on working as part of a small, multidisciplinary team to deliver exceptional customer care, coaching your colleagues and supporting patients in their weight loss journey. Your behaviours and skills will ensure your patients are equipped to change their health and wellbeing for the better. You’ll be a role model for patient-priority attitude, as well as being able to deliver gold standard operational levels, including regulatory compliance and local marketing outreach.

Processes and procedures must be followed to the letter – as a Care Quality Commission registered medical slimming clinic, absolute compliance is crucial to ensure we are safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well-led.

Duties

• Provide both consultation and ongoing support to the clients.
• Create bespoke nutrition programs for the clients.
• Report and feedback to clinic management.
• Actively promote the slimming clinic services inside and outside of clinic setting.
• Be available to attend other clinics and attend training.
• Take part in multi-disciplinary meetings regarding patients care and progress
• Possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using their own initiative
• Have excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective time management skills
• Motivating patients to make lifelong changes to aid prevention or management of disease

Responsibilities

• Keep up to date with professional research and share best practices with the team to support the company ethos and continued development of the core product.
• Attend all compulsory training, CPD and standardisation events.
• Demonstrate a high level of apathy in all communication, planning and delivery.
• Demonstrate a high level of engagement, in line with the company values, both internally and externally.
• Demonstrate a good level of reasoning skills adapting the company process.
• Demonstrate higher level of teaching skills, and an awareness of:
  • Client observation
  • Behaviour change process
  • Motivation skills
  • Mindful eating
  • Confidence and experience in running small-group classes
• Obtain customer feedback and suggest appropriate product and service changes.
• Coordinate with management teams in product and marketing activities.
• Demonstrate consistency, meeting assigned deadlines to ensure client satisfaction.
• Being able to work in professional isolation eg with in clinic
• Be flexible with working hours
• Dressed appropriately in uniform provided.

Skills/qualities required

• Character and personality are key for our teams to be able to deliver the supportive, caring service we give to all of our patients. Our dietitians must be friendly, sociable, warm, and empathetic.
• Attention to detail – when dealing with health and wellbeing, focus and observance keep our patients safe and happy.
• Enthusiasm and self-motivation – our clinic teams are small, so being able to work without continuous supervision is needed.
• Computer skills – we utilize technology to improve our service, so this means you will need to be familiar and comfortable working with Windows based computer systems, including the Microsoft Office suite. We use a bespoke diary management system and several online services, so knowing how to navigate a computer is a must.
• An interest in fitness, health, and lifestyle are essential.
• Experience of working as a dietitian in the private sector is an advantage.

Requirements

• Minimum of three years’ experience
• Registered Dietitian with valid HCPC Registration
• Minimum of two years working with obesity and/or special populations
• Worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of delivering a structure weight management service
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standard for weight management
• Continued Professional Development in weight management

Benefits

Alongside the satisfaction of being able to help people change their lives, we’ll make sure you receive a competitive salary. We’ll also make sure you get all the training and support you need to deliver knowledgeable advice and an efficient service, using our extensive in-house training and development pathway. On top of this, if you or your friends and family want to make changes to your lifestyle and health, we offer an employee discount and a friends and family scheme.

The Slimming Clinic is at a very exciting point in it’s development, so this is an opportunity to make your impact and help develop the gold standard of weight loss care.