Community Dietitian - Southport, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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

2 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 across Sefton Place, part for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.


This post is based within the Community Services Division across Sefton Place, initially supporting the team in Southport and Formby, providing nutritional care within a variety of settings including outpatient clinics, care homes and patients own homes.

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


You will deliver specialist outpatient clinics either face to face or virtually making using of the video platform Attend Anywhere and manage a caseload of patients requiring care in their own home or care home setting.

There will be a mixture of working within an office setting, virtual consultation, telephone clinics, working from home and community-based face to face domiciliary visits.

You will have the support of the Clinical lead, specialist dietitians and Dietetic Assistant with inspiring development opportunities.

The Trust has an established management and clinical development structure, including a preceptorship programme for all new graduates, regular clinical and management supervision, monthly dietetic meeting and access to peer support and other development opportunities.

We provide student training clinical placements for students from 3 North West University's and you will contribute to the delivery of our student training programme


Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.


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 support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

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.

The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload. They will be responsible for the continuity of care and be the lead person for communication to identified stakeholders.

The primary function of the role is to provide proactive, responsive services that address the anticipatory and maintenance care needs of the patients/clients within the defined caseload.

This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs and the provision of clinical care for patients/clients with acute and chronic highly complex needs.

Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team
leader.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment
of systems and processes.
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