Stroke Dietitian Specialist: Flexible Hours

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

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