Clinical Specialist Dietitian - C&YP

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Learning opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

NHS discounts

Wellbeing support

Staff networks

Job summary

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Specialist Dietitian to join the Parkview Clinic site. The post involves autonomous clinical practice delivering high-quality, evidence-based dietetic assessment and treatment to inpatients, with responsibility for caseload management and strategic input on nutrition.

The successful candidate must be willing to travel across Coventry and Warwickshire for meetings, supervision and CPD opportunities, and will work with the MDT

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Manage a clinical caseload providing a comprehensive, effective, and safe dietetic service.
• Plan, develop and deliver dietetic care for people admitted to Parkview Clinic.
• Receive and promptly respond to referrals.
• Assess patient nutritional risk and interpret relevant blood results where appropriate.
• Develop educational nutritional resources for service users.
• Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work within guidelines.

Job description

The Clinical Specialist Dietitian will be part of a specialist multidisciplinary team and work as an autonomous, independent clinician; responsible for delivering safe, high-quality evidence-based dietetic assessment and treatment to inpatients across the Parkview Clinic site. The post holder will work with the MDT and the facilities team to ensure the site provides nutritionally appropriate care and treatment. The post holder will provide strategic input in matters relating to nutrition.

The post holder must be willing to travel across Coventry and Warwickshire for meetings, supervision and CPD opportunities.

In Particular, The Post Holder Will Be Required To

• Manage a clinical caseload providing a comprehensive, effective, and safe dietetic service, using highly specialist knowledge and skills.
• Be responsible for the planning, development and direct delivery of dietetic care offered to people admitted to Parkview Clinic.
• Receive and promptly respond to referrals.
• Assess patient nutritional risk and interpret relevant blood results, where appropriate.
• Undertake development of nutritional resources to educate and treat people referred to the service.
• Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including caseload management and direct clinical care and to work within professional and Trust guidelines and scope of practice.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.