Band 6 Community Dietitian Nutrition Support

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites experienced dietitians to join our community nutrition support team in Birmingham. You will manage home enteral feeding and complex oral nutrition support caseloads, visiting patients at home or in care homes and conducting community clinics by telephone or in health centres.

After a comprehensive induction you will have autonomy in caseload management with access to clinical supervision, and you will supervise Band 4/5 staff and

Qualifications

• Some experience of nutrition support.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.
• Patient-centred and solution-focused professional practice.

Responsibilities

• Manage caseload of home enteral feeding and complex oral nutrition support patients in Birmingham.
• Visit patients at home and in care homes; carry out community clinics via telephone or in health centres.
• Provide clinical supervision to Band 4 and 5 staff and support learners/apprentices.
• After induction, work autonomously with regular clinical supervision and service development meetings.

Skills

Nutrition support

Home enteral feeding

Clinical supervision

Job description

Are you passionate about nutrition support and keen to extend your skills in managing complex patients? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced dietitian to join our friendly community nutrition support team.

Our Band 6s provide specialist assessment & intervention for community patients requiring home enteral feeding and/or complex oral nutrition support, acting as a resource for junior staff and other health professionals in the management of undernutrition across Birmingham.

We are seeking dietitians with some experience of nutrition support, with excellent communication and time management skills, and a patient-centred and solution-focused professional practice.

We offer a flexible working environment in a supportive team, with the opportunity to build fulfilling relationships with your patients and colleagues.

You will manage a caseload of home enteral feeding and complex oral nutrition support patients in your own defined geographical area in Birmingham – this includes visiting patients in their own homes and care homes, and carrying out community clinics via telephone or in health centres around the city. We try to arrange this practically to avoid excessive travel time for our team members.

After a comprehensive induction you will have a high degree of autonomy in managing your caseload but we are a welcoming supportive team – there is always someone available to message or call, and we meet regularly face to face for clinical supervision and service development.

You will give clinical supervision to our Band 4 and 5s, who see the majority of our oral nutrition support patients, supporting their development by giving them graded exposure to the more complex patients on your caseload. We are also proud to provide highly rated supervision to dietetic learners and apprentices.

The most important skills and qualities for success in this role are:

• the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people and build strong working relationships
• the willingness to build on and share your clinical knowledge in nutrition support and the medical conditions our patients live with
• developing the ability to take complex, evidence-based decisions both in the management of individual patients and prioritisation of your overall caseload.

Be Part Of Our Team

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sinead Walsh Job title: Service Clinical Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0121 683 2300

While this post is advertised as full time, we welcome applications from dietitians seeking flexible and/or part time working.