Bank Diabetes Specialist Dietitian INW

NHS; London; On-site; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a dedicated Dietitian to join their community service team, focusing on clients with diabetes. This role involves providing dietetic assessment and treatment across various settings in London. You will be responsible for managing your clinical workload while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring individuals receive comprehensive care tailored to their needs.

Qualifications

• HCPC Registration required.
• Post-registration experience in diabetes and related areas.
• Experience in clinical audits and policy development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietary assessment and dietary counselling in community settings.
• Develop treatment plans based on evidence-based guidelines.
• Manage clinical caseload independently.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Nutritional assessment

Effective communication

Time management

Problem solving

Education

HCPC Registration

Membership of British Dietetics Association

Post-registration education in diabetes management

Job description

• To provide dietetic assessment and treatment to clients with diabetes within the Inner London Boroughs in a variety of settings, including clinics, groups and client homes.
• To be responsible for organising your own clinical workload and administrative tasks, and to be flexible to the needs of the service as indicated by the clinical lead/line manager.
• To initiate and participate in clinical governance activities across the CLCH diabetes service, and to collect and record output to indicate service improvement.
• To act as a source of expertise to key partners and other health professionals.
• To ensure primary health care teams and non-NHS organisations have access to up to date nutritional information through the development of education and training materials and sessions

Main duties of the job

• To use clinical judgement to refer clients to other services and professionals and when appropriate.
• To provide timely and informative client reports and discharge summaries for GPs, consultants, other Allied Health Professionals, nursing and other staff.
• To be responsible for effective time management, meeting deadlines and responding to fluctuating workloads and organising, planning and prioritising clinical and non-clinical workload.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and to ensure that own work is within professional standards and clinical guidelines.
• To be responsible for complying with legal and professional confidentiality guidelines at all times.
• To demonstrate compassion, empathy and sensitivity to clients who may have emotional and physical conditions and social concerns requiring moderate emotional effort on a regular basis.
• To perform tasks that require moderate to high mental effort on a daily basis, for example concentration to write letters, to use clinical analysis and some reasoning skills to assess and develop appropriate treatment programmes, to educate clients and other healthcare professionals and to develop training material and presentations.

About us

We providecommunity health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:

stay well

manage their own health with the right support

avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision:deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence

Job responsibilities

• To be responsible for providing a dietetic service including appropriate dietary counselling and lifestyle advice to adults in various community settings such as GP practices, health centers and sometimes clients homes. This will include responsibility for a clinical caseload which will include 1:1 contact, group education and multidisciplinary working.
• To support the service and provide cover where required across the CLCH Diabetes service team.
• To work autonomously to provide expert advice to clients, carers and clinicians. This will involve nutritional diagnosis and assessment (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and diet history) using evidence-based guidelines and the development of treatment plans (calculation of nutritional requirements and client-centred goals) using evidence based outcomes.
• To use professional judgement and clinical expertise to independently interpret and analyse complex situations and information to formulate treatment plans according to evidence based practice and modify according to changes in clinical condition.
• To be clinically competent to give specialist advice, treatment and dietary counselling to support behavioural change, in adults with complex and diverse healthcare needs across health and social care.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)Registration
• Membership of the British Dietetics Association
• Member of diabetes special interest group
• Evidence of other post registration education and training in diabetes management

Experience

• Post registration experience in a range of clinical areas including diabetes, weight management, cardiovascular disease
• Experience and knowledge in the collection and recording of outcome measures
• Experience in contributing to policy, procedures, guidelines and clinical standards development
• 4Experience in conducting clinical audits and / or research

Skills & Knowledge

• Skilled in the assessment and treatment of clients with nutrition related disease.
• Ability to apply core dietetic skills across a range of clinical conditions.
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to work as a team member and promote collaborative multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate clinical reasoning
• Good communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format.
• Ability to manage time effectively, meet deadlines and deal with work pressures

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£22.92 an hourWeekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay