Specialist Learning Disability Dietitian - Durham, United Kingdom - Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

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Durham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are delighted to announce an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and self-motivated Specialist Dietitian to work across County Durham and Darlington Community Adult Learning Disability teams.

This busy and rewarding post will provide a rare opportunity to further develop your knowledge and skills in the specialist field of Learning Disabilities and Mental Health.

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful post holder to be instrumental in continuing to develop our LD dietetic service in the region, under the guidance of an LD Lead dietitian and alongside a Band 4 Associate Practitioner and Band 5 Dietitian.

This role has a strong emphasis on the management of obesity and associated long term health problems, oral nutrition support and health promotion.

Our Trust is part of a regional weight management plan "A Weight Off Your Mind" which aims to address the weight management needs of people with mental illness and/or learning disabilities in our care.

We recognise this is a health inequality issue and we want to bring the physical health, life expectancy and quality of life of our service users in line with those of the general population.

The successful post holder will be enthusiastic about working with this client group; have a warm, compassionate manner and an appreciation of the challenges that individuals with an LD experience.