CWM Nutritionist

Everyone Health Ltd; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

Everyone Health Ltd. is recruiting a Child WeightManagement Nutritionist to deliver evidence-based nutrition advice for children, across face-to-face, group and virtual settings, as part of Peterborough's community-based service.

You will work within an MDT, providing expert nutrition input, develop care plans, and support service improvement while meeting contractual KPIs. Travel to delivery sites and occasional evening/weekend work are expected.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree/postgraduate degree in nutrition, or a minimum of 2 years' experience in this field.
• Member of the Association for Nutrition (AfN), or working towards.
• Experience delivering nutrition support for children in community and Tier 2 weight management programmes.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive assessment of nutritional needs and patient lifestyle to develop care plans.
• Deliver nutrition advice across face-to-face, group settings and virtually.
• Work within MDT to deliver high-quality patient care and meet contractual KPIs.
• Engage in community outreach to raise the profile of the service and engage target populations.
• Maintain accurate records and comply with information governance and data protection policies.

Skills

Nutrition assessment

Behaviour change

MDT collaboration

Child obesity management

Education

Degree in Nutrition

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

To provide a critical role as Child WeightManagement Nutritionist, working as a key member of Peterborough community-basedService.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

In line with NICE guidance, be responsible andaccountable for the delivery of high quality, evidence-based nutrition advicefor children, including those seeking Nutritional interventions across face toface, group settings and virtually.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT),provide expert advice and support, to ensure excellent patient healthcare andcontractual outcomes.

Play a pivotalrole within an innovative, forward thinking and collaborativemulti-disciplinary team and integrated service in Peterborough.

About us

Everyone Health Ltd supports people to live healthier lives. We offer advice and guidance and our evidence based prevention and treatment solutions enable individuals to take action to make a positive change. Our behaviour change dynamic services are co-designed by our service users as we continually strive to make a difference.

Mostly we are a company full of passionate individuals who love to help people achieve their health goals.

Job responsibilities

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

Provide comprehensive assessment of nutritionalneeds and patient lifestyle in order to develop care plans to addressnutritional needs.

Evaluate nutritional needs and on-going supportto patients in line with NICE guidance across Tier 2 to children and young people in a group and 1-2-1 settings,implementing skills and knowledge of behaviour change theories.

Support the nutritional development, delivery,evaluation and quality assurance of the service and provide key nutritional expertiseto the multidisciplinary team and other colleagues within the service, ensuringexcellent service delivery.

Facilitate and empower patients to changebehaviour and adopt positive lifestyle changes by providing health educationand high quality nutritional counselling regarding healthy eating, helpingpatients to address barriers to change.

To attend multi professional meetings to providenutrition input regarding management for patients/clients including dischargeplanning and on-going management whilst respecting professional roles to ensure a supportive andproactive multi-disciplinary team.

Support community engagement: build a network ofkey contacts and undertake networking publicity and promotional activity toraise the profile of the service and to identify and engage with targetpopulations.

Accountable for ensuring programme delivery ismonitored using validated tools to collect and analyse patient performanceoutcome measures and evaluation, to ensure that the contractual KPIs areachieved and an excellent service is demonstrated; critical andrigorous implementation of all validated anthropometric measures at keymilestones across the services, in line with the Standard Evaluation Framework,ensuring excellent recording, monitoring and reporting on patient outcomes.

Utilising SystmOne (and other relevant systems) andinternal reporting procedures to ensure rigorous data collection processes arerobust, to evidence service efficacy through generation of excellent healthoutcome data, contributing to an internal qualitative and quantitative evidencebase, and demonstrate best practice and value for money.

Keep accurate records and written reports,ensuring patient personal information is recorded in accordance with EveryoneHealths and Local Authority policies; Caldicott Guardian, InformationGovernance, Data Protection and Data Sharing compliance.

Assist the development of continual serviceimprovement and client/patient-centred services in accordance with participantfeedback, NICE guidance, national and local recommendations, professionalcompetences and SLM policies and procedures, ensuring the service is deliveredin line with CQC and HSCICs regulations.

Be compliant with all relevant policies,procedures and guidelines; including the appropriate code(s) of conductassociated with this post; maintain awareness of safeguarding issues, reportand acting on concerns in accordance with Everyone Health and Local Authoritypolicies and procedures.

Ensure the safety of all patients byundertaking: risk assessments, health and safety checks, equipment checks etc.,as directed by the Contract Manger and Clinical Lead. Respond to any relevant clinical / colleagueissues / incidences to manage a mitigate risk, and maintain best practice.

To be responsible and accountable for achievement ofrelevant contractual targets including referrals, uptake, completion percentagetargets and effective outcome measures, through delivery of high standardnutritional care.

Activelyparticipate in community engagement to ensure services are deliveredefficiently and effectively, targeting priority groups to ensure thesuccessful recruitment and retention of patients within the service.

Take responsibility for own CPD and synthesisenew knowledge into the development of your own practice, participate intraining and continual professional development as required; recognise and workwithin own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated byprofessional body.

To work within the requirements of the 6 Cs:care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.

Ensure that commitment to equality and diversityis reflected at all stages of project planning, delivery and evaluation, inline with agreed service standards.

Support in administrative duties related to thepatients where necessary, for example letters to referrers, follow up phonecalls, motivational text messages as required.

Be an ambassador for Everyone Health, promotingthe Weight Management Service to members of the public and other stakeholders/partners, where appropriate.

Contribute to the growth of Everyone Health by working collaborativelywith Managers / colleagues to develop and have some responsibility for anexpanding portfolio of services and products.

PERSONSPECIFICATION

1. SKILLS & ABILITIES

Ability to directand co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively.

Ability toproduce detailed, accurate, patient nutrition care plans.

Ability to translate complex nutritionalinformation into a format that is appropriate and understandable for patientsto support compliance with healthy eating intervention and advice.

A commitment tocontinuous service improvement with expert insight into patients needs, sothat all patients receive high quality care.

Passionate aboutputting patients first and delivering a high quality service.

Proven ability torelate, motivate and confidently engage individuals in activities anddiscussion as part of a group and in a 1:1 situations.

Ability to workindependently and manage own work load; able to work effectively andsupportively as a multi-disciplinary team member.

Sound interpersonal skills with proven ability to work effectivelywith all levels of colleagues, including effective partnerships with otheragencies and service providers.

Evidence ofexperience in embracing and implementing change to provide high quality healthoutcomes.

Good presentationof self: enthusiastic, innovative and flexible.

Excellent verbaland written communication skills in order to effectively communicate with awide range of individuals including participants, colleagues and externalpartners.

Proven planning,organisational and evaluation skills.

Ability toorganise, monitor and check work to ensure no element of a task is leftunfinished.

Ability to usegeneric software packages.

Person Specification

Special Conditions

• Highly motivated self-starter with resilience, determination and the ability to see jobs through to completion.
• Role incorporates evening / weekend working, with variable levels of travel across Peterborough, working in a variety of settings including schools, community venues and leisure centres.
• Evidence of a personal commitment to continuing professional development and to maintaining an up-to-date professional knowledge supporting the development of business within the company.
• This post involves working with children / young people / vulnerable adults and as such the post holder will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records at an enhanced level (DBS).
• FITNESS TO PRACTISE
• Applicants will need to confirm if:
• Theyre currently subject to a fitness to practise investigations or proceedings by a regulatory or licensing body
• Theyve been removed from any professional register or licensing register
• Theyve had conditions or sanctions placed on their registration
• Theyve ever had restrictions placed on their clinical practice as part of the revalidation process
• Everyone Health delivers multi-component health related and lifestyle services, including prevention and early intervention, on behalf of Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Authorities in community based localities across the UK.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree/postgraduate degree in nutrition, or a minimum of 2 years' experience in this field
• Member of the Association for Nutrition (AfN), or working towards.
• as above

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years experience working with children within community and Tier 2 weight management programmes across a range of service settings, including community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with children in a 1-2-1 and group environment, to support positive lifestyle change.
• Experience of working with patients within a weight management service.
• Experience of delivering high quality patient nutritional support through 1-2-1 and group settings.
• Experience of devising and leading treatment programmes.
• Experience of working effectively as part of a MDT / team.
• Experience of working with patients of different cultures, genders and ages.
• Experience of working to time schedules.
• Evidence of experience in embracing and implementing change to provide high quality health outcomes.
• Experience of working to challenging performance targets and achieving excellent outcomes.
• Sound knowledge of the complex care of the obese and morbidly obese patient.
• Knowledge of specific nutrition requirements for delivering specialist weight management programmes for young people and children.
• Knowledge of behavioural and emotional development issues.
• Knowledge of stigma associated with obesity and effects on social and emotional well-being.
• Knowledge of weight management, nutrition and physical activity in relation to health improvement.
• Knowledge of psychological and behaviour change theoretical techniques in relation to supporting people to make positive lifestyle changes.
• Knowledge of NICE guidance relating to the treatment of obesity.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Patient Confidentiality Act and the Data Protection Act.
• Sound knowledge of clinical governance.

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.

£27,976 a yearPer annum pro rata for part- time