Specialist Dietitian – Neurorehabilitation & Home Enteral Nutrition

NHS; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London seeks an enthusiastic dietitian to join their multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will focus on nutritional support for adults with feeding tubes in community settings. Candidates should have a BSc in Dietetics and be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. This role offers opportunities for professional development and involves travel within Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham.

Qualifications

• Experience providing nutrition support to complex patients.
• Familiarity with diverse caseloads.
• Experience working in community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic service as a member of the HEN Team.
• Assist in managing patients receiving home enteral nutrition.
• Collaborate with team to create care plans.

Skills

Knowledge of tube feeding

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Adaptability

Education

BSc (Hons) in Dietetics

Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council

Post-graduate training in nutritional support

Training in motivational interviewing

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic multidisciplinary team.

The post is ideal for a dietitian with experience in nutritional support who wants to develop clinical skills working with adults living in the community with a feeding tube and within a specialist neuro‑rehabilitation setting.

You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team of Dietitians, Nutrition Nurse Specialists and Speech and Language Therapists and be involved in the training and development of the team.

You will be actively encouraged and supported in your personal development, which will include involvement in multi‑disciplinary CPD activities, research and audit.

Post is based in the Community at Waldron Health Centre, Amersham Vale. It will involve travel to see people in their own homes and care homes across Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. 15 hours per week are based at the Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre.

PLEASE NOTE: We may not be able to offer sponsorship for this post

Job Responsibilities

• Member of the multidisciplinary Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) Team.
• Assist in the provision of the dietetic service provided by the HEN team across Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark, including the assessment and dietetic management of a specialist dietetic caseload receiving HEN.
• Work closely with HEN Team members and carry out activities that are an extension to the traditional dietetics role to ensure that patients, their families and carers receive care and advice on all aspects of tube feeding at home.
• Provide dietetic support to Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre and work closely with the MDT to ensure that patients, their families and carers receive appropriate advice.
• Support the development of the dietetic service provided by the HEN Team in accordance with the Trust's and HEN team strategy.
• Provide expert, evidence‑based dietetic assessment and advice for people receiving home enteral nutrition.
• Provide expert, evidence‑based dietetic assessment and advice to people with a brain injury at Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre.
• Assist in the management of the dietetic caseload ensuring high‑quality dietetic care is delivered, including reviewing patients at appropriate intervals.
• Undertake multidisciplinary assessment and review of patients.
• Collaborate with HEN team members and carry out extended roles to ensure that patients receive care and advice on all aspects of tube feeding at home.
• Agree care plans with patients and/or carers and work with other MDT members to help meet their nutrition‑related goals.
• Work with other MDT members to provide specific training sessions for patients to help them meet their nutrition‑related goals.
• Work in a variety of community settings, advising patients, carers and health and social care professionals by telephone, virtually and face to face (in patient homes, day centres, nursing homes or rehabilitation centres).
• Provide practical and safe tube feeding plans to patients and/or their carers for use in the community.
• Work autonomously when assessing patients, making clinical decisions, and evaluating outcomes of dietetic interventions, asking for advice and support when required.
• Advise on and order specialist nutritional and enteral feeding products as required, including enteral feeds and tube feeding ancillaries/pumps.
• Advise on diabetes, lipid‑lowering, weight management, oral nutritional support and conditions requiring dietary input (e.g., coeliac disease).
  See attached Job Description for more details.

About Us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivating a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
• Improving the experience of staff with disability.
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of Trust staff through training and development.
• Making equalities mainstream.

Qualifications & Training

• BSc (Hons), PgDip or MSc in Dietetics or equivalent.
• Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council.
• Post‑graduate training in nutritional support (desirable).
• Training in motivational interviewing or similar (desirable).

Knowledge & Skills

• Sound knowledge of tube feeding and oral nutrition support including administration and products.
• Understanding roles within a multidisciplinary team and how they may work together for the benefit of a patient.
• Understanding the use of a range of anthropometric measurements (desirable).
• Understanding the protection of vulnerable adults (desirable).

Experience

• Providing nutrition support to complex patients.
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Working with a diverse caseload.
• Safe management of own workload and diary.
• Adapting style of communication to suit a variety of situations.
• Multidisciplinary goal setting (desirable).
• Working in the community (desirable).
• Participation in audit and research (desirable).
• Involvement in student training / training others (desirable).

Employer Details

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

University Hospital Lewisham

Community - Waldron Health Centre, Amersham Vale, SE14 6LD

London, SE13 6LH

Website: https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/

Additional Information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.