CAMHS Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian

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• To work autonomously managing highly specialist complex clients with eating disorders, identifying, planning and delivering highly specialist dietetic interventions, demonstrating expertise in this area of clinical speciality.
• To provide a highly specialist nutrition advisory and dietetic service as part of the CAMHS Community Eating Disorders Service, and as part of the CAMHS Inpatient Service.
• Provide advanced nutritional and dietetic advice in a specialist area to medical, health care professionals and other agencies.
• Act as the lead dietetic specialist for the CAMHS Acute Pathway services , managing a highly specialist caseload.
• To provide a highly specialist nutrition advisory and dietetic service across the Trust.
• Participate in service development within own clinical area and contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development.
• To provide strategic direction to the Trust to ensure that it meets its requirements as laid out by the CQC.
• To provide an active role in ensuring that mental health staff within the Trust are able to undertake assessments to determine malnutrition appropriate to the age of the service

user.

• To act as an independent practitioner for a highly specialist clinical caseload.
• To use highly developed communication skills for patients/carers and the team.
• To develop effective working relationships across all agencies.
• To communicate and liaise effectively with other members of the MDT, including attendance at CPA/MDT meetings if required.
• To provide expert assessment, and advice to patients and carers, providing evidence based highly specialised nutritional care plans.
• To act as a source of highly specialist information and advice on current best practice in mental health dietetics for colleagues, other health care professionals and clinicians.
• To work with patients with complex needs, including communication impairment and lack of capacity.
• To make recommendations about the safe and appropriate use of nutritional supplements, drug prescriptions and interactions relating to nutritional intake.
• To be responsible for advising on the procurement of suitable enteral feeding products and equipment for the service.
• To devise, monitor and review highly specialised care plans against outcome measures to facilitate the achievement of goals.
• Gain valid consent to treatment and negotiate change with patients by breaking down barriers, using motivational skills, to enable them to achieve dietary targets set.
• To ensure safe and timely discharge of patients, liaising with appropriate internal and external agencies.
• To provide accurate clinical recording.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

• To plan and prioritise own workload including responsibilities for patient care, training and other professional responsibilities.
• To be able to work using a high level of skill and knowledge as an independent practitioner.
• Decide daily on priorities for own work area balancing patient related and professional demands.
• Contribute to task and finish groups as required.
• Complete allocated projects and meet deadlines.
• Record patient activity data.
• Provide supervision for band 6 Mental Health Dietitians working across the directorate, including agreeing annual leave and cover for the team and travel claims.
• Deliver training to mental health staff on nutritional issues as required.
• Contribute to the training of pre-registration dietetic students on clinical placement (subject to six months post-registration experience) by:

• Contribute to the development of educational resources, which are evidence based and acceptable to patients and carers.
• Contribute to the development of mental health dietetic care pathways, assessment tools, care plans and other resources that support patient care.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate formal and informal training within specialism to audiences of

• Work within the Health and Care Professions Council’s Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency.
• Attend Trust induction training and mandatory training programmes.
• Identify personal training needs through participation in regular continuous professional development activities and individual performance review.
• Maintain a personal portfolio as evidence of competence to practice.
• Undertake defined audit projects as part of clinical practice.
• Contribute to the development of mental health dietetic evidence based treatment policies, protocols, standards and guidelines.
• To ensure data collection is robust to enable outcome measures and service evaluation can be monitored.
• To undertake any other reasonable duty, which is appropriate to the band, when requested

• To be familiar with and comply with all Trust and departmental policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines.
• To be aware of and work towards the Trusts strategic goals.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• MSc or its equivalent level of knowledge and advanced post graduate training / experience in specialist clinical dietetics.
• Registered as a dietitian with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council).

• MSc in specialist clinical dietetics.
• Evidence of further professional development.
• Attainment of validated post-registration qualification in defined highly specialised clinical area e.g. diabetes, nutrition support, mental health, eating disorders.

Experience

• Experience of managing a dietetic case load.
• Experience working as an integral member of an MDT to deliver patient and organisational objectives.
• Significant experience of working with a broad range of patients across a variety of clinical settings.

• Experience in training student dietitians.
• Experience of working with patients with CAMHS, eating disorders and other common mental illnesses.

Knowledge

• High level of knowledge of nutrition and dietetics and an understanding of the dietary management of common conditions requiring diet therapy.
• Knowledge of eating disorders, the comorbidities and the nutritional needs of sufferers.
• Knowledge of mental health problems affecting young people such as eating disorders, psychosis, depression and self-harm and their associated co morbidities and nutritional needs.
• Highly competent to develop complex care plans for patients.
• Competent in calculation of nutritional requirements and anthropometry.

Skills and Abilities

• Good team working skills.
• Ability to engage with young people and negotiate treatment plans.
• Ability to deliver group education to patients and health professionals.

Work Related Circumstances

• Willingness to travel around different boroughs within the trust.
• Flexibility in working including evenings and weekends.
• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.

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Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
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