Nutrition Support Dietitian

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Dietitian to join our friendly and progressive community team.

The successful applicant will have gained skills and experience across a range of clinical dietetic specialities in either an acute or community setting in order to specialise further in oral nutritional support and home enteral tube feeding.

The Nutrition Support Service covers clinical caseloads for malnutrition, appropriate prescribing, adult home enteral tube feeding, and complex obesity. This role requires some face to face domiciliary and nursing home visits in the borough of Barnet, so a car driver is required.

We also provide clinics which may be face to face or virtual, allowing for some home working. The team meets fortnightly to support communication, team building and staff well being.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will mainly support patients in the community who require tube feeding, and manage a caseload of those at risk of malnutrition. Liaison with patients, relatives and carers around a food based approach and appropriate prescribing of oral nutritional supplements in line with our pathway and the North Central London (NCL) formulary is essential.

There may also be scope for experience in supporting patients living with obesity.

Regular communication with GP practices, hospital dietitians, pharmacists and other community based teams such as nursing, One Care Home and Frailty MDTs, and contribution to various networks across CLCH and NCL is expected.

Supervision of students and management of dietetic assistants and junior staff will be part of the role.

CLCH provides opportunities for professional growth through Dietetic and AHP networks, clinical training courses and leadership development programmes.

Please note: In order to be considered for this role you must already hold active HCPC registration as a Dietitian and be able to practise in the UK. Applicants who are still registering with the HCPC or hold a different registration (e.g. Registered Nutritionist) will not meet the essential criteria at this time.

About us

We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to those who depend on us. We support children, adults and others through life's most important moments.

Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas and believes in the potential of every colleague.

We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Undergraduate Degree / Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics
• Must have current UK HCPC registration
• Evidence of other post registration education and training in nutrition support

Desirable

• Evidence of other post registration education and training in enteral tube feeding

Experience Essential

• Post registration and previous experience in a range of clinical areas such as nutrition support, home enteral feeding, obesity, diabetes, oncology, gastroenterology.
• Post registration and previous experience in treating patients for malnutrition, providing food fortification advice, and appropriate prescribing of nutritional supplements.
• Post registration and previous community experience in a variety of settings such as nursing and residential homes, community clinics, domiciliary visits.
• Experience in training/teaching other healthcare professionals.
• Experience in conducting audits and/or research.
• Experience in using behaviour change techniques.
• Experience in contributing to policy, procedures, guidelines and clinical standards development.

Desirable

• Experience in supervising the work of others and line management.
• Experience in supervising student dietitians.
• Post registration and previous experience in managing patients requiring home enteral feeding.
• Post registration and previous experience in managing patients requiring weight reducing advice.

Skills & Knowledge Essential

• Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of clients with nutrition related disease.
• Knowledge of national policies and guidelines in the areas of Nutrition Support, Oncology, Elderly Care, and others.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to work as a team member and promote collaborative multi disciplinary and multi agency working.
• Ability to problem solve and demonstrate clinical reasoning.
• Good communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written formats.
• Basic IT skills - Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Knowledge of and commitment to equal opportunities.
• Ability to work with clients from a diverse range of backgrounds.
• Ability to manage time effectively, meet deadlines and deal with work pressures and demands.

Desirable

• Excellent group education skills.

Key Attributes Essential

• Personally and professionally responsible.
• Able to self motivate.
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable and reliable.
• Able to carry out moderate physical effort throughout the day.
• Car driver with valid UK licence.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Edgware Community Hospital
Edgware
HA8 9BA

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£44,485 to £52,521 a year, inclusive of HCAS