Specialist Stroke Dietitian

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dietitian to undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with complex presentations referred by the stroke team. You will formulate management plans and discharge strategies, working within a multidisciplinary team to deliver coordinated care.

You will evaluate progress, contribute to service improvements and use varied communication skills to engage patients, carers and colleagues, while supporting dietetic learners and providing

Qualifications

• Essential criteria: range of clinical dieteitc experience, especially knowledge of managing malnutrition with inpatients and UK healthcare systems
• Demonstrates a range of communication skills and ability to provide patient centered care
• Demonstrates a wide range of professional skills of working in healthcare

Responsibilities

• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations and multipathologies within inpatient and outpatient settings for patients referred by the stroke team.
• Formulating individual management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements to be used.
• 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, measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work to provide safe patient care and manage risk.
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to complete dietetic assessments and implement treatment plans. This will include using listening skills and behaviour change skills to motivate patients to change their lifestyle behaviours and communication in a way to meet inclusion and diversity needs.
• 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.
• Organising and prioritising of own workload and managing clinical risk within caseload.
• Supporting training for dietetic learners and providing practice education experience.

Skills

Clinical dietetics experience

Communication skills

Professional healthcare skills

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role involves:

• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations and multipathologies within inpatient and outpatient settings for patients referred by the stroke team.
• Formulating individual management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements to be used.
• 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, measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work to provide safe patient care and manage risk.
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to complete dietetic assessments and implement treatment plans. This will include using listening skills and behaviour change skills to motivate patients to change their lifestyle behaviours and communication in a way to meet inclusion and diversity needs.
• 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.
• Organising and prioritising of own workload and managing clinical risk within caseload.

Supporting training for dietetic learners and providing practice education experience.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria:

• range of clinical dieteitc experience, especially knowledge of managing malnutrition with inpatients and UK healthcare systems

Communication

Essential criteria:

• demonstratesd a range of communication skills and ability to provide patient centered care

Professional skills

Essential criteria:

• demonstrates a wide range of professional skills of working in healthcare

Important Information

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: