Specialist Community Dietitian

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Windsor; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team at a leading healthcare provider as a Specialist Community Dietitian. This full-time role offers a chance to work with a diverse patient caseload, including home enteral nutrition and paediatric dietetics. You'll have the opportunity to develop your skills and contribute to quality improvement projects while enjoying a supportive work environment that values professional development. With flexible working options and generous benefits, this position is ideal for those passionate about making a difference in community health.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning opportunities

Cycle to Work scheme

Discounts at retailers

Staff networks for diversity

Generous maternity and paternity leave

Free parking

Qualifications

• Experience in providing dietetic care to diverse patient caseloads.
• Ability to deliver care through online platforms and home visits.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist dietetic treatments and nutritional support.
• Support and mentor Dietetic Assistant Practitioners and students.

Skills

Dietetic Care

Home Enteral Nutrition

Paediatric Dietetics

Coaching and Mentoring

Quality Improvement

Education

Degree in Dietetics

Tools

One Consultation

MS Teams

Job description

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Specialist Community Dietitian Band 6

King Edward VII Hospital

Full time (37.5hrs)

East Berkshire Community Dietetic Service based in Windsor has an opportunity to offer a permanent full time Band 6 role.

The post holder will be covering a varied community caseload, including a case load of home enteral nutrition, gastro clinics as well as patients requiring nutritional support. There are also opportunities to develop experience and skills in paediatric dietetics, low-FODMAP diets as well as coaching and mentoring junior staff.

We are a mobile working service and offer our patients the choice of face-to-face, virtual and phone appointments as well as home visits. To support this, we have excellent IT access and support staff home-working where appropriate.

As a team we strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.

We are continually striving to improve the service we offer our patients and embrace new ways of working via our Quality Improvement System (QMIS)

We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.

• Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community and community inpatients.
• Providing specialist dietetic treatments e.g. home enteral nutrition (HEN), low-FODMAP diets.
• Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. One Consultation and MS Teams
• Visiting patients in their own home, where appropriate, to offer HEN and nutritional support advice.
• Coaching, delegating work to, and supporting Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs) and involvement in student training programme.
• Involvement in departmental research activity and quality improvement project work
  
  

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joseph Took Job title: Team Leader Nutrition & Dietetics Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07727 238884

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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