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    Dietitian - Community Learning Disabilities - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    We are excited to be offering an inspiring role to join our team of Community Dietitians, Assistant Practitioners and administration staff working within our community services division.


    This post is based within the Community Services Division with the main area of work being Longmoor House Reablement Service.


    Longmoor House has 69 beds and replaces the Intermediate Care service provided on Ward 35 at LUHFT's Aintree University Hospital site.


    The facility includes Activities of Daily Living (ADL) kitchens, activity spaces as well as a range of single and dual occupancy rooms.

    It serves patients needing ongoing nursing, therapy, and reablement needs, working towards collaborative goals to support timely discharge.


    The service provides step down capacity from acute trusts for medically stable and optimised patients, whose care and assessment can be continued in a non-acute setting until they are ready to go home.

    It will also be open to patients needing step up care from community settings that require reablement or convalescence where alternative out of hospital home care has been exhausted.

    You will manage a diverse clinical caseload incorporating nutritional support, frailty, chronic diseases, oncology, neurology, and gastrointestinal disorders.

    Work with key members of multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide, advice, support, and care plans to patients to support their reablement and return home.


    Provide training, education, and specialist advice to qualified and nonqualified health care professionals in all areas of the specialised field.


    Have an awareness of and implement clinical practice utilising the direction provided by National Service frameworks NICE, Clinical Governance and DoH guidelines to ensure high quality evidence based best practice.

    Ensure the delivery of the quality carewithin the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.


    The post holder will be supported clinically by the South Sefton Dietetics team and will be able to engage in supervision, CPD and reflective practice with Dietetics and the Longmoor House MDT.

    Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.


    We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

    Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.


    At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

    We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

    Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
    Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload.

    Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.


    Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence-based practice.


    Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.


    Provide advice to patients, clients, and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.

    Ensure that the team provides a high-quality clinical service to its clients byparticipation in caseload and clinical supervision.


    In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.

    Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.

    Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.

    Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.

    Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.

    Risk assessment skills
    Ability to travel to work across boundaries
    Experience of successful multi-agency working
    Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
    Understanding of the principles of care management
    Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
    Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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