Community Hospital Dietitian

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Nottingham; Vor Ort; GBP 33.000 - 45.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Living wage employer

Zusammenfassung

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust seeks a Community Hospital Dietitian to support inpatients in community hospitals and work with the MDT to provide evidence-based nutritional care and discharge planning.

Based at Northampton General Hospital or Kettering General Hospital, you will collaborate with community dietitians and review discharged patients to meet national food provision standards and improve patient care.

Aufgaben

• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations within inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Formulating individual management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements to be used.
• Working collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.
• Evaluating patients progress, measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work to provide safe patient care and manage risk
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to complete dietetic assessments and implement treatment plans.
• Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
• To lead on service improvement work that can benefit patient care and the wider MDT
• Organising and prioritisation of own workload and managing clinical risk within caseload
• Supporting training for dietetic learners and providing practice education experience

Jobbeschreibung

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Community Hospital Dietitian

The closing date is 11 November 2026

The post involves providing a service to inpatients in community hospitals and you will work with the MDT team based there to provide evidence based nutritional care and support onward rehabilitation /safe discharge. You will have support from the other dietitians working in the community, the acute hospitals and the home enteral feeding team.

You will work with patients and staff in the following community hospitals: Brackley, Corby, Danetre (Daventry), Isebrook (Wellingborough) and Spinneyfields (Rushen). You will work jointly with the food service dietitian to help meet national standards for food provisions and improve patient care. There will be a small outpatient caseload to review discharged patients.

Main duties of the job

You will be accountable to the professional lead for Nutrition and Dietetics and you will be based at Northampton General Hospital or Kettering General Hospital site within the dietetic teams based there. The post involves providing a service to inpatients in community hospitals and you will work with the MDT team based there to provide evidence based nutritional care and support onward rehabilitation /safe discharge. You will have support from the other dietitians working in the community, the acute hospitals and the home enteral feeding team.

You will work with patients and staff in the following community hospitals: Brackley, Corby, Danetre (Daventry), Isebrook (Wellingborough) and Spinneyfields (Rushen). You will work jointly with the food service dietitian to help meet national standards for food provisions and improve patient care. There will be a small outpatient caseload to review discharged patients.

About us

NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our 'outstanding' rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.

At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to an accredited living wage employer.

We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where are people feel valued and able to thrive.

Job responsibilities

The role involves:

Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations within inpatient and outpatient settings.

Formulating individual management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements to be used.

Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.

Evaluating patients progress, measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work to provide safe patient care and manage risk

Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to complete dietetic assessments and implement treatment plans. This will include using listening skills and behaviour change skills to motivate patients and families/carers to change their lifestyle behaviours and communication in a way to meet inclusion and diversity needs

Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

To lead on service improvement work that can benefit patient care and the wider MDT

Organising and prioritisation of own workload and managing clinical risk within caseload

. Supporting training for dietetic learners and providing practice education experience

Please note this is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities of the post. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required commensurate with the grade and/or hours of work at the post holders initial place of work or at any other of the Trusts establishments.

Person Specification

knowledge

• wide range of dietetic experiences, evidence of inpatient and UK working preferred

communication

• demonstrate competency in a wide range of communication skills

professionalism

• demonstrates competency in a variety of professional skills

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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust