Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian
Job overview
We have an opportunity for a Band 7 Dietitian (part time – 30 hours/week) to join our community Nutrition and Dietetics team for a 12-month fixed term period to cover maternity leave. The main responsibility of this role is to provide a service to patients/carers on home enteral tube feeding and training to CLCH staff.
The community dietetic service includes a successful and proactive team of dietitians and dietetic assistant practitioners covering the boroughs of London (Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, and Hammersmith & Fulham). We are passionate and strive to bring high quality evidence based dietetic practice to the people who use our services and continuously seek to adapt and improve the service we provide.We have a strong focus on the health and well-being of our staff.
Our team purpose statement is ‘We are committed to enabling our patients to achieve their nutrition and hydration goals through providing evidence-based dietetic care’
The team is predominantly hybrid working with the main office at Lisson Grove Health Centre. The post will involve a combination of virtual clinics, home visits and some face-to-face clinics in the boroughs of Westminster, and Kensington & Chelsea.The whole team meets face to face at least once a month and virtually once a week to support communication, team building and staff well-being.
Interviews are scheduled for 25 March 2025 please ensure that you are able to attend this date.
Main duties of the job- Manage a caseload of enteral tube feeding patients, including those with complex health and social needs.
- Education and training lead for enteral feeding.
- Enteral feeding policy implementation lead.
- Line management of dietetic Assistant practitioners.
- Supervision and development of dietetic students.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Health and Care Professions Council Registration
- Membership of the British Dietetic Association
- Member of Specialist Interest Group related to Nutrition Support/ Enteral Feeding
- Supervisory skills training
- Post-registration training in Behaviour Change
Experience
Essential criteria- Post-registration and previous experience in a range of clinical areas including nutrition support, home enteral feeding
- Experience of formulating treatment plans for malnourished patients or those at risk of malnutrition adopting a food based approach
- Experience of recommending the use of oral nutritional supplements in line with NICE guidelines and ACBS criteria
- Experience in managing patients requiring oral and clinically assisted nutrition support with co-morbidities such as diabetes, progressive neurological conditions and dementia
- Experience in training/teaching healthcare professionals
- Experience in the training of student dietitians
- Experience in conducting nutrition support audits, quality improvement and / or research
- Experience in using behaviour change techniques
- Experience in contributing to policy, procedures, guidelines and clinical standards development
- Experience in working within community dietetics
- Experience in supervising others
- Experience in demand management of oral nutrition support working with prescribing teams and GPs
Skills
Essential criteria- Basic IT skills – Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel
- Knowledge of national policies and guidelines in relevant areas of practice such as: Nutrition Support, older adults and frailty, community gastroenterology
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
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