Dietitian (XR06) - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Description

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic dietitian, with excellent communication and team working skills, looking to work in the interesting area of renal dietetics? Then this job could be for you.

We are pleased to advertise two full-time and part-time ( Specialist Dietitian (Band 6) posts, to work within our friendly Renal Dietetic Team, which is growing and has a great skill mix.

The successful applicant will be supported to develop the knowledge and skills required to provide care to patients all stages of kidney disease. You will work collaboratively with the MDT ensuring the best care for our patients.

The Leeds Renal Service is a sub-regional transplant centre and has 8 haemodialysis units across West Yorkshire. Being a car driver would be an advantage for this post.

Professional and personal development are strongly encouraged, and health and wellbeing is a Trust and department priority; offering opportunities for flexible working and working from home where services allow.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide dietetic care to patients with acute and chronic kidney disease, having opportunities to cover the both the acute inpatient and outpatient service which includes the low clearance, haemodialysis, and transplant service.

You will provide evidenced based advice to patients, carers and clinicians on the provision of nutrition support and therapeutic diets for patients with kidney disease. This will involve nutritional diagnosis, based on a detailed clinical and dietary assessment and the development of treatment plans, incorporating patient-centred goals, whilst ensuring safe and acceptable biochemical parameters. You will work collaboratively as a key member of the MDT and will be involved in education of students and healthcare professionals.

The post offers excellent opportunities for professional and personal development, and will be actively involved in the development, implementation, and audit of patient care practices as part of quality assurance.

About us

We have a strong focus on investing in our people to ensure that they can achieve their full potential. We lead the way in providing further training and career development opportunities in every department and at every level of our organisation.

We have a culture where people take a real pride in their work, respect each other and all work together to deliver the most exceptional standards of patient care. We have a happy, productive work environment where everyone in every role plays their own important part in our success.

You will be working within our large, friendly and dynamic Nutrition and Dietetic Department which provides regular professional development events, and hosts training to A, B and C placement students. The department has good clerical support and access to excellent IT and library facilities

Our Trust values are that we are patient-centred, empowered, collaborative, fair and accountable.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

To provide part of a professional Nutrition and Dietetic care service within a

Specialist area. This includes advice to in-patients, out-patients, all healthcare staff and participation in the training of student dietitians. Shows initiative in assisting and supporting the senior specialist dietitians and the Clinical Dietetic Manager in the day-to-day management of the department.

3. JOB DIMENSIONS

The post holder will:

Manage own case load to a level agreed with supervisor/line manager.

Be involved in the provision of education and training to healthcare staff, patients, care providers and students.

Be a key member of the multidisciplinary care team to provide integrated dietetic care.

Shows initiative in assisting and supporting the senior specialist dietitians and the chief dietitian in the day-to-day management of the department.

Deliver training to healthcare staff, dietitians, and students.

Be an active member of the out of hours service.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

BSc (Hons) Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent.

HCPC Registration as a dietitian.

Experience of working within a Dietetic role within a healthcare setting

Willing to undergo any training as required to enable performance in the job.

Awareness of current issues in specialised areas of dietetics.

Able to work within a team, demonstrate initiative, confidence and excellent time management and organisational skills.

Good written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.

Good presentation skills in delivering training to large multidisciplinary groups of staff or members of the public (this may involve groups of more than 50 people).

6. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

Comply with professional codes of practice, professional guidelines and departmental policies and procedures.

Maintain strict confidentiality in accordance with Trust policies and HCPC standards.

Be compassionate and ethical in the provision of dietetic care.

Demonstrate a commitment to personal and professional development.

7. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS

Demonstrate good office practice in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

Be a pro-active team member of the Dietetics department at LTHT by participating in departmental development projects, attending, and participating in departmental meetings and clinical updates.

Demonstrate the ability to communicate highly complex, specialised, and sensitive information with empathy and understanding.

Demonstrate the ability to provide highly complex nutrition counselling to patients requiring cognitive behavioural therapy skills and use of advanced reassurance, motivational and negotiation skills to overcome barriers to change.

Demonstrate the ability to analyse clinical and non-clinical information to form accurate nutrition care plans in specialised areas.

Demonstrate analytical skills in prioritising the best course of dietetic treatment in patients with highly complex clinical conditions, where nutritional goals may conflict with other on-going physical, emotional, psychological and medical problems.

Ability to use stadiometers, anthropometric skin-fold callipers with precision and accuracy in the nutritional assessment of patients.

8. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Ability to perform specialised nutritional assessments, interpret and plan relevant dietetic care programmes for patients with highly complex nutritional needs and multiple medical conditions.

Advanced knowledge of biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology.

Understanding of the calculations required in dietetic assessment.

Ability to correctly interpret complex nutritional impairments, biochemical parameters and fluid balance. This will involve nutritional diagnosis including interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition, social factors and diet histories in patients with specialised and complex nutritional needs.

Demonstrate advanced knowledge in interpretation of complex clinical information to develop, monitor and complete nutritional care plans in specialised dietetic areas. This may include the prescription of dietary treatment, prescribable nutritional products and enteral nutrition.

Responsible for safe discharge planning including the discharges of patients receiving home enteral nutrition.

Demonstrate the ability to evaluate practice using evidence-based practice and critical appraisal.

Ability to advise and suggest nutrition related medications.

Knowledge of clinical governance, quality of care and evidence-based practice in specialist areas.

Awareness of national guidance and driving factors in specialist areas.

9. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical and professional

Be an autonomous practitioner, clinically, legally, and professionally responsible for own caseload.

Responsible as a clinical practitioner in a specialist dietetic field, for delivering high quality specialist dietetic care. This will involve being guided by departmental standards, professional guidelines, broad occupational policies, and procedures.

Collect, analyse, and record relevant patient information from clinical and patient sources to develop effective nutritional plans.

Responsible for providing highly specialised dietary advice within an in-patient and out-patient setting, to patients in a distinct specialist area , advice to renal dialysis patients on calcium and phosphate management, oncology patients on enteral feeding.

Communicate the nutrition and dietary treatment of patients to healthcare staff, other professionals, and patient carers. This may involve co-ordinating nutritional care with other trusts and centres outside the Trust.

Undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with diverse and complex nutritional issues where investigative and analytical skills are required to formulate accurate treatment plans.

Responsible for providing relevant dietary advice within an in-patient an out-patient setting in verbal and written forms in a format which is understood by patients and carers.

Responsible for developing and maintaining an agreed level of expertise by updating own specialised clinical knowledge and skills through attendance at post-graduate courses, clinical updates, and in-service training.

Participate in the appraisal process as an appraisee and develop a strategy for personal and continuous professional development, encompassing a portfolio-based assessment in line with national legislation.

Participate in audit within specialist areas, involving evaluation of research and audit projects to measure clinical effectiveness and promote evidence-based practice.

Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as requested/ agreed with the line manager.

Education and training

Devise and implement specialised nutritional care plans for inpatients and outpatients according to current national guidelines and standards, including NSFs. This will involve advising patients, relatives, or carers, individually or in a group setting.

Contribute to developing and maintaining agreed levels of expertise of dietetic team members.

Provide effective oral and written specialised dietetic advice and information to patients and their carers to enable achievement of dietary aims.

Develop resources used in the education and training of patients, health professionals and the public.

Deliver formal and informal talks on nutrition and dietetics to health care staff as required.

Plan and deliver student training as assigned after an appropriate induction period/ supervisory training course.

Train ward staff to use dietetic resources appropriately.

Participate in providing specialised advice, teaching, and training to other members of the multidisciplinary team regarding the nutritional managements of a specialist group of patients.

Be an active member of the in-service training programme through delivery of training sessions and tutorials at staff meetings and by attending external courses and demonstrating reflective practice.

Managerial

Disseminate clinical information to other members of the multidisciplinary team by attendance and participation in ward rounds and case conferences as required.

Experience

Essential

Qualifications

Essential

Skills & Behaviours

Essential