Specialist Mental Health Dietician - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Professionally accountable for their own case-load. To deliver ward visits and group education sessions.

To work autonomously making clinical decisions in a variety of secure mental health settings within broad professional standards (Health Professions Council andProfessional bodies).To complete and implement full dietary plans for the service user using the appropriate anthropometric, biochemical and medical screening and advice to identify their nutritional requirements.

To ensure that the advice is tailored to the service users individual needs.
To give expert advice around MUST in conjunction with appropriate care-planning.


To work professionally in line with the 10 Key Characteristics of Health being legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.(Health Professions Council and Professional Bodies).To support the Trust wide physical health agenda, therapeutic diets including diabetic, lipid lowering, allergies and intolerances, and weight reducing.

To support the Trust wide physical health targets Lester tool and support the Health and wellbeing teams health promotion workers.

To make clinical and responsive decisions working across all the Local division inpatient units which may involve dealing with our more complex patients with challenging behavior in a professional and compassionate manner and in line with the professional code of conduct.

To use advanced communication skills to motivate and negotiate with patients to comply with treatment programs and use empathy, reassurance and analysis to uncover social or psychological factors which may affect compliance in order to facilitate long term lifestyle changes.

To provide nutritional expertise at multidisciplinary meetings including ward review, best interest meetings, case conferences and in discharge planning. (This includes advice on methods of feeding, e.g. naso-gastric tube feeding, enteral sip feed supplements.) To educate and support the care-team about the patients' diets and recommend appropriateremedial measures to correct nutritional deficiencies and achieve therapeutic goalsTo record electronically details of all patient interviews and interactions.

To adhere to Trust Clinical Governance policy for recording, storage and communication of confidential records.
To liaise with Pharmacy Department regarding the provision of enteral food supplements, tube feeds etc.

To liaise and provide nutritional training and updates to Link Nurses, Advanced Practitioners, all nursing staff, Drs, Occupational TherapistsTo react to situations within Local Division inpatient units as appropriate e.g.

de-escalation of threatening, challenging or violent behaviour, using breakaway techniques if indicated, supporting other staff when necessary.
To network across the MDT around the Obesity Strategy, Hospital Food Standards, CQUIN and Recovery focussed targets.

Providing innovation around delivery of nutrition-related topics to groups of patients, to support diet-related illnesses and to promote nutritional wellbeing.

To provide staff with the expert evidenced based advice and around Health Promotion Management Team on all nutritional issues.
To provide clear unambiguous and appropriate teaching aids for the patients and staff.

To support the lead Dietitian nutritional analysis package and with Catering Department regarding the provision and clear coding of therapeutic diets.


To support the lead Dietitian in undertaking clinical audit using research methodology and quality assurance procedures for clinical/service governance; present and/or publish findings.

To undertake audit of nutrition policy using research methodology in conjunction with the Audit Department.


Managerial/Leadership:

To monitor MUST screening and prioritise new referrals in order of priority providing regular support to the medical staff and via input at care-team.

To audit the MUST and patient care plans from admission throughout the duration of stay providing the Lead Dietitian with the outcomes on a quarterly basis.

To lead on certain areas of the Obesity strategy and Hospital Foods standards.


This will involve assessment of patients on a 1:1 basis and regular reviews or group sessions and reporting on clinical outcomes.

To support the lead Dietitian in design and implementation of nutritional policies and standards in line with evidenced based practice and in disseminating and reinforcing information across all the sites.

To regularly liaise with staff from Catering, looking at ways to improve the service user experience. To support the use of Nutmeg and any changes that should arise.

To support the catering staff in implementing these changes and to keep staff updated via the trust wide Hospital Food Strategy meetings.

To support the Lead Dietitian with the role of the Assistant Dietitians, including their supervision process. To be responsible for any student dietitians for a day at their manager's request to give them some ins
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