Nutrition Support Dietitian

Central London Community Health Trust; Edgware; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service is seeking a Band 6 Dietitian in Edgware to join their progressive team. The successful candidate will provide nutrition support, including managing patients at risk of malnutrition and conducting home enteral tube feeding. Essential qualifications include a Dietetics degree and current HCPC registration. This role offers flexible working options and opportunities for professional growth through various training programmes.

Benefits

Car lease scheme *T&C's apply

Flexible working options

Annual travel card loan

Training, support and development

Qualifications

• Post-registration experience in clinical areas such as nutrition support and home enteral feeding.
• Experience in treating patients for malnutrition and providing food fortification advice.
• Experience in conducting audits or research.

Responsibilities

• Support patients at risk of malnutrition by providing food-based advice.
• Liaise with GP practices and community teams.
• Supervise students and manage junior staff.

Skills

Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of clients with nutrition related disease

Knowledge of national policies and guidelines in the area of Nutrition Support

Ability to work as a team member

Excellent group education skills

Education

Undergraduate Degree / Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics

Current UK HCPC registration

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Dietitian to join our friendly and progressive community team.

The successful applicant will have gained skills and experience across a range of clinical dietetic specialities in either an acute or community setting in order to specialise further in oral nutritional support and home enteral tube feeding.

The Nutrition Support Service covers clinical caseloads for malnutrition / appropriate prescribing, adult home enteral tube feeding, and complex obesity. This role requires some face to face domiciliary and nursing home visits in the borough of Barnet which makes a car driver preferable.

We also provide clinics which may be face to face or virtual, and this will allow some home working. The team meets fortnightly to support communication, team building and staff well-being.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will mainly support patients in the community at risk of malnutrition by liaising with patients, relatives and carers around a food-based approach and the appropriate prescribing of oral nutritional supplements in line with our pathway and the North Central London (NCL) formulary.

There may also be scope for you to gain experience in supporting patients on home enteral tube feeding. You will regularly communicate with GP practices, hospital dietitians, pharmacists and other community based teams such as nursing, One Care Home and Frailty MDT's, and be able to contribute to various networks across CLCH and NCL.

You will gain further experience in supervising students, and management of dietetic assistants and junior staff. CLCH provides excellent opportunities for your own professional growth through Dietetic and AHP networks, clinical training courses and leadership development programmes.

Please note: In order to be considered for this role, you will need to already hold active HCPC registration as a Dietitian and be able to practise in the UK. If you are still in the process of registering with the HCPC, or if you hold a different registration (for example, Registered Nutritionist), you would not meet the essential criteria at this time. We are not sponsoring for this role, so applicants will need to already have the right to work in the UK. When applying confirm that you hold an active HCPC registration and meet the requirements stated in the Person Specification in the Job description.

About us

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Undergraduate Degree / Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics
• Must have current UK HCPC registration
• Evidence of other post registration education and training in nutrition support

Desirable

• Evidence of other post registration education and training in enteral tube feeding

Experience

Essential

• Post-registration and previous experience in a range of clinical areas such as nutrition support, home enteral feeding, obesity, diabetes, oncology, gastroenterology.
• Post-registration and previous experience in treating patients for malnutrition, with providing food fortification advice, and with appropriate prescribing of nutritional supplements
• Post-registration and previous community experience in a variety of settings such as Nursing and Residential Homes, community clinics, domiciliary visits
• Experience in training/teaching other healthcare professionals
• Experience in conducting audits and / or research
• Experience in using behaviour change techniques
• Experience in contributing to policy, procedures, guidelines, and clinical standards development

Desirable

• Experience in supervising the work of others and line management
• Experience in supervising student dietitians
• Post-registration and previous experience in managing patients requiring home enteral feeding
• Post-registration and previous experience in managing patients requiring weight reducing advice

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of clients with nutrition related disease
• Knowledge of national policies and guidelines in the area of Nutrition Support, Oncology, Elderly Care, and others
• Basic IT skills - Microsoft Word, Power point, Excel
• Ability to work as a team member and promote collaborative multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Knowledge of and commitment to equal opportunities
• Ability to work with clients from a diverse range of backgrounds
• Excellent group education 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Edgware Community Hospital

Edgware

HA8 9BA

Employer's website

https://clch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

£44,485 to £52,521 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)