Nutritionist - Upper Gi - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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This is a 12 month fixed term pilot to support the evolving Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) dietetic service.

As an UGI Nutritionist you will be accountable for a designated clinical caseload, working within an evidence-based nutritional intervention plan under the guidance of an UGI specialist dietitian.

You will support patients and carers going through investigation, treatment, or palliation for Oesophageal or Gastric cancers, signposting patients and carers to ensure holistic cancer care.

The UGI nutritionist will be responsible for 'Best supportive Care', 'Wedge resection', and 'nutritional deficiencies' telephone clinics. You will lead on identifying nutritional deficiencies in UGI patients and liaise with GPs to correct abnormalities.

The UGI Nutritionist will work as part of an established Cheshire and Merseyside UGI dietetic service at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) covering UGI cancer and complex benign patients.

The UGI dietetic team consists of 5 dietitians supported by 1.2 Band 4 UGI Assistant Practitioners. There is regular clinical supervision, team meetings and opportunity for CPD and involvement in regular audit and service evaluation. The post holder would be based at RLUH site with outreach to UHA as required.

The UGI dietetic team is part of a wider dietetic team at RLUH with many highly specialist teams supported by Dietetic assistants and assistant practitioners.

You will undertake nutritional assessments utilising nutritional knowledge, and anthropometrical skills and equipment. Where required, you will develop tailored, individual, meal plans as appropriate for the patient's clinical condition.

The post holder will work alongside the UGI MDT and collaborating trusts, following the optimal OG pathway for Cheshire and Merseyside, to ensure seamless, streamlined, and timely nutritional care of UGI cancer patients.

You will support UGI home enterally fed patients with SOS calls and trouble shooting.

You will assist discharges and feeding tube placement by delivering tube care training, whilst delivering, and providing support and supervision to band 4 UGI Assistant Practitioners with pump training.

You will be responsible for education and training to catering and ward staff regarding the UGI menu, and meal provision.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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