dietitian - Worcester, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals Limited

    NHS Professionals Limited
    NHS Professionals Limited Worcester, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Job summary

    Are you an experienced Dietitian? Do you haveevidence-based experience and are looking for flexible workingopportunities? Worcestershire Acute is currently providing theseopportunities through an exciting placement opportunity Worcester RoyalHospital.

    The Trust is delighted to offer the opportunityfor an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated individual to join theirTeam. The post holder will work primarily withinacute adult inpatient setting and work to improve nutritional support forinpatients.

    Main duties of the job

  • Working as an experienced autonomous practitioner, to provide a high standard of patient focused care through specialised assessment.
  • To plan and deliver a high quality service to patients working in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.
  • To offer a dietetic skills and expertise to complex in-patients and out-patients.
  • To contribute to the Therapy Clinical Governance agenda to further improve the quality of the service.
  • To engage with patients in treatment planning decisions and to formulate a treatment plan jointly with the patient providing written information where appropriate.
  • To advise and motivate patients, relatives, and carers to make positive lifestyle and dietary changes.

    • About us

    Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

    Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

    Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

    Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Pleasefind attached a copy of the full job description under the supporting documentssection for this job advert, this has been provided by the hiring manager.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent qualifications in Dietetics.
  • Registered Dietitian recognised by the HCPC.
  • Evidence of CPD

    • Desirable

  • Member of the British Dietetic Association.
  • Attendance on clinical educators programme.
  • Attendance on relevant accredited courses.
  • Member of a specialist interest group

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Post registration clinical dietetic experience in NHS.
  • Experienced in all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds , naso-gastric, PEGs, PEJs
  • Experienced and skilled in TPN-fed patients.
  • Experience of multi-disciplinary team work.
  • Experience of implementing evidence based practice for continuous service improvement.
  • Experience of supervising students.
  • Experience of teaching healthcare staff.
  • Experience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds.
  • Experience of nutrition risk scoring MUST.
  • Experience of contributing to day to day co-ordination of activities in a department.

    • Desirable

  • Experience of appraising others.
  • Worked on ICU