Community and In-patient Rehabilitation Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The post holder will provide a specialist dietetic service to community patients in Nursing Homes or residential homes and patients in their own homes, across the borough of Camden.

They also provide regular support for the patients on the St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit (SPRU). They will be supported in their role by experienced B7 Dietitians and a Dietetic Assistant.

Vaccination:

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The post-holder would be expected:

To deliver and evaluate the specialist community dietetic service to adult patients in Camden CCG. This involves the Dietetic outreach clinics, working in designated clinics.
To deliver and evaluate the specialist dietetic domiciliary service to patients in Camden CCG
To provide education and support to the general public in Camden as part of the health promotion activities carried out by the Community Dietitians.
To ensure work is in line with departmental, Trust and National Dietetic standards.
To lead and carry out regular clinical audit into this specialist area.

Camden Nutrition and Dietetics Service provides nutritional assessment, dietary advice and support to you and your family/carer.

We help you to manage your food intake and provide nutrition advice to help you understand the impact of diet on your health and wellbeing, helping people live longer, healthier lives.

We also deliver individual and group services, providing therapeutic diets to educate and promote lifestyle changes

Working relationships and communication requirements of your job

To gather and analyse relevant medical, pharmacological, social and nutritional information from patient records and other healthcare professionals in order to assess and plan safe and effective dietetic interventions, initially and on an ongoing basis.
To utilize appropriate communication, negotiation and counselling skills to enable the post holder to convey highly complex dietary information in an understandable form(both verbal and written) to patients with a wide variety of medical conditions
To communicate and negotiate, where there are significant communication difficulties and barriers to acceptance or change, which may include working through an interpreter.
To use cognitive behavioural therapy techniques (motivation, empathy and reassurance) in hostile and highly emotive settings and in cases of noncompliance.
To utilize the knowledge and skills to tailor information to specific community groups targeting their own particular needs e.g. nonEnglish speakers
To participate in lifestyle groups e.g. weight management groups in a multidisciplinary setting.
To utilize computerkeyboard skills for the needs of the IT systems within The Trust.

Level of Clinical Responsibility

To provide the community dietetic service to patients in Camden CCG. This includes giving highly specialized dietary advice.
To provide singlehanded Dietetic patient care in a variety of community locations e.g. nursing homes, patients' own home.
To act as autonomous practitioners in the specialist dietetic area providing expert nutrition advice to medical and nursing staff.
To give expert opinion on complex nutritionrelated issues where numerous social, ethical, psychological and medical factors have to be considered and where there may be conflicting ideas from the multidisciplinary team e.g. recommending on the use of pharmacological therapy for obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease, in conjunction with diet therapy.
To nutritionally assess referred patients by interpreting blood biochemistry, anthropometric measurements, fluid balance and clinical condition, as appropriate. e.g. patients requiring nutrition support.
To develop treatment plans by calculating the nutritional requirements of the patient requiring specialist nutritional support including the prescription of nutritional supplements.
To make recommendations on the prescription of pharmacological medications and dosages e.g. lipid lowering drugs and obesity medications
To provide cover for colleagues during periods of absence.
To provide input to professional development topics for staff meetings
To be responsible for planning, writing and implementation of training for student dietitians in the community setting.
To be responsible for the supervision and assessment of student dietitians during their practical placement.

Other responsibilities

To be responsible for nutrition related policies and the implementation of government initiatives and local public health programs on behalf of your patients e.g. National Service Framework for obesity and coronary heart disease. This involves working with other disciplines e.g. practice nurses.
To participate in producing and updating dietetic resources in line with curren