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

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Are you interested in a career in the field of mental health dietetics? This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Dietitian to join our team on a permanent contract to consolidate knowledge and skills in a busy, but supportive inpatient environment.

This exciting post provides an opportunity to further develop your knowledge and skills within the inpatients: Adult Mental Health Service, Older Adults, Addictions, Brain Injuries, Learning disabilities and Rehabilitation.

As a specialist Dietitian you will work as part of the small dietetic team of Dietitians, Dietetic assistants and will also work closely with the wider ward based MDT's.

The post holder will have the opportunity to participate in policy development, audit, research activities, pathway development, staff and student training.

You will carry a clinical caseload with a variety of physical and mental health conditions this will include nutrition support oral nutrition and enteral feeding and the management of obesity and associated long term health problems.

Travel around the geographical areas of Liverpool and Sefton is a must.

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 and
Professional 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).

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

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 and
Professional 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 patien