Dietician - Oxford, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals Limited

Description

Job summary

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a Dietician to join the community nutritionand dietetics team predominantly based at the East Oxford Health Centre.

Main duties of the job

To provide a dietetic service and give nutritional advice to adult and paediatric patients, with arange of conditions, in the primary care setting. This includes the assessment and treatment ofpatients and working as an integral member of the MDT to provide a flexible, prioritised servicebased on clinical need.

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 responsibilities

JobTitle: Dietician

Grade: Band 6

Ward/Dept: Community Nutrition and Dietetics

Location: East Oxford Health Centre, 1 Manzil Way,Oxford, OX4 1XD

Trust: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Hours: hours Monday-Friday

ShiftPattern: 8:00-16:00 (Flexible working patternavailable)

PayRate: £

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a Dietician to join the community nutritionand dietetics team predominantly based at the East Oxford Health Centre.

This is anexceptional opportunity to gain and utilise broad clinical experience withinour service which supports adults and children across Oxfordshire. You will bean integral member of the team sharing the caseload for home enterally fedpatients both in the clinic setting and conducting home visits for patients intheir own homes and nursing homes. This includes transition patients frompaediatric to adults.

OxfordHealth NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social careacross Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North EastSomerset. Their services are delivered across the community in hospitals,clinics, community bases and in patients homes, as they focus on deliveringcare as close to home as possible.

Thepost holder will be responsible for assisting in the development and deliveryof the community dietetics services to adult and paediatric patients in thecommunity. This includes working within the existing dietetic team, supportingjunior staff and linking with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure a holisticapproach to patient care. You will be responsible for designing individualclient-centred treatment plans, involving nutritional assessment andcalculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry,anthropometry, clinical condition, and diet history.

Tobe successful in applying for this role you will need:

Jobdescription

Jobdescription can be provided upon request.

PersonSpecification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevantdegree or equivalent

HCPCRegistered

EssentialCriteria

Essential

EnhancedDBS

Inaddition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provideevidence of

Aboutus

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

CareerProgression access to Learning & Developmentopportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-lifeBalance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeingresources and build paid annual leave

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

Disclosureand Barring Service Check

Thispost is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made tothe