Specialist Community Dietitian

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Northampton is seeking a dietitian to join their primary care team. This role involves providing dietetic assessment and treatment to patients through one-on-one interviews and group sessions. Ideal candidates will be excellent communicators, team players, and genuinely interested in patient-centered care. The Trust offers development opportunities and support from specialist dietitians, promoting a culture of learning and improvement in patient care.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage a complex caseload autonomously.
• Experience working collaboratively with healthcare teams.
• Ability to develop patient-centered care plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic assessment, advice, and treatment to patients.
• Manage caseload and develop care plans with patients and carers.
• Evaluate progress and collect outcomes.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Teamwork

Patient-centered approach

Experience in dietetic assessment

Job description

Responsibilities

• Providing dietetic assessment, advice, treatment, monitoring and counselling to support behavioural change in patients who meet the referral criteria. This will be delivered through one-to-one interviews, group sessions and community-based clinics. Some of this work is now done virtually.
• Autonomously managing a complex caseload and working with patients and their carers to agree patient-centred care plans.
• 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 and collecting outcomes.
• Contributing to and implementing service improvement work.
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to 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.

Opportunity

We are looking for a dietitian to join our primary care team and can offer opportunities in community and mental health inpatient areas, outpatient clinics and specialist weight management. You will be part of our primary care dietetic team but will have support from a range of clinical specialist dietitians from across Northamptonshire. We are keen to work with you to develop your knowledge and skills and can offer you a competency package to complete if your feel you are not ready for a band 6 post yet but are interested in moving to Northamptonshire. We are looking for a dietitian who is an excellent communicator, a team player, has a patient centred approach to care and keen to develop their clinical practice.

About the Trust

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Culture & Values

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.