Inpatient Mental Health Dietitian

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Dietitian to join its Inpatient Mental Health Dietetic Team on a part-time basis. This development post offers progression from Band 5 to Band 6 with support from a Highly Specialist Dietitian and the MDT.

You will provide specialist nutrition care to patients with mental health needs, work within professional guidelines, and contribute to service development. The role supports collaboration with catering and the broader Trust.

Qualifications

• Post-registration experience in dietetics within mental health.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and follow professional guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist Dietetic interventions to service users with severe or complex mental health needs.
• Deliver evidence-based nutrition assessment and intervention to support recovery.
• Advise and train mental health and learning disability services within the Trust.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner with supervision from the lead Dietitian.
• Collaborate with catering services to meet hospital food standards.
• Supervise Dietetic students and contribute to service development reviews.
• Manage a designated workload with clinical support as needed.

Skills

Post-registration Dietetics experience

Job description

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week. Applicants must have post registration experience We have an exciting opportunity to expand our Inpatient Mental Health Dietitian Team. This development post will see the successful applicant develop from Band 5 to Band 6. You will be supported in this development phase using competencies and with support and guidance from our Highly Specialist Dietitian and the Multi-Disciplinary Team. The post holder will:

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist Dietetic intervention to service users with severe / complex mental health needs and / or learning disabilities. (80% of time)
• Provide evidence based, dietetic assessment and intervention to optimise service users' outcomes and recovery. To be responsible for a designated workload with access to the support, advice and management from a senior clinician whilst not directly supervised. They will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patient centred programmes of care ensuring that they practice within their sphere of competence and knowledge. The post holder will work to professional protocols and regulatory body codes, standards and guidance at all times ensuring that their practice is grounded in the best available evidence based theoretical and practical knowledge.,
• To provide specialist nutrition advice/input and training throughout mental health and learning disabilities (LD) services within the Trust
• To provide a Trust wide Nutrition and Dietetic Service for mental health and LD and work as an autonomous practitioner and with supervision from the lead Dietitian.
• To work with catering services to ensure the Trust's catering provisions are fit for purpose and meet national guidelines for hospital food standards
• To provide dietetic assessments and interventions to individuals or groups of clients with mental illness or learning disabilities
• To provide clinical supervision and support to Dietetic Students
• To carry out delegated tasks in policy and service development reviews

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust. Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.