Specialist Dietitian - Neurorehabilitation & Home Enteral Nutrition

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading health trust in the United Kingdom seeks a Dietitian to join their multidisciplinary team. This role involves providing dietetic support for patients on home enteral nutrition. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with various health professionals and ensure quality care and advice. The position, based in the community, offers a unique opportunity to impact patient health and wellness significantly.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Strong understanding of home enteral nutrition.
• Ability to assess patients and make clinical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic management for home enteral nutrition patients.
• Work closely with HEN Team providing care to patients.
• Ensure high quality dietetic care and management.

Skills

Team collaboration

Nutritional assessment

Patient communication

Clinical decision-making

Education

Registered Dietitian

Tools

Dietetic software

Job description

Overview

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.

Member of the multidisciplinary Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) Team

• To 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.
• To 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.
• To 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.
• To support the development of the dietetic service provided by the HEN Team in accordance with the Trust's and HEN team strategy.
• To provide expert, evidence‑based dietetic assessment and advice for people receiving home enteral nutrition.
• To provide expert, evidence‑based dietetic assessment and advice to people with a brain injury at Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre.
• To assist in the management of the dietetic caseload ensuring high quality dietetic care is delivered. This will include the review of patients at appropriate intervals according to prioritising criteria and clinical judgement.
• To undertake multidisciplinary assessment and review of patients.
• To 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.
• To agree care plans with patients and/or carers and work with other members of the MDT to help meet their nutrition‑related goals.
• To work with other members of the MDT to provide specific training sessions for patients to help them meet their nutrition related goals.
• To work in a variety of community settings, advising patients, carers and health and social care professionals by telephone, virtually and face to face. This could be in a patient's own homes, day centre, nursing home or rehabilitation centre.
• To provide practical and safe tube feeding plans to patients and/or their carers for use in the community.
• To work autonomously when assessing patients, making clinical decisions, and evaluating outcomes of dietetic interventions asking for advice and support when required.
• To advise on and order specialist nutritional and enteral feeding products as required, including enteral feeds and tube feeding ancillaries/pumps.
• To advise on diabetes, lipid lowering, weight management, oral nutritional support and conditions requiring dietary input eg people with coeliac disease.

Workplace and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

Working for our organisation – 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 cultivate 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:

1. 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.
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability.
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
5. Making equalities mainstream.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce is reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Application and Hiring Process

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

About Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT)

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) is a community‑focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high‑quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole‑life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most. Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three‑quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough‑based boards of the ics in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.