Community Dietitian - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Would you like to expand your dietetic skills including home enteral tube feeding, chronic disease and nutrition support within the community setting? We have this great opportunity for you in Ealing as part of Central North West London NHS Trust, working under the umbrella of Ealing Community Partners.

The post is 0.63 WTE (23.6 hours per week) Band 6.

You will be responsible for supporting tube fed and nutrition support patients in their own home or nursing homes and running chronic disease management clinics at health centres, face to face or virtual telephone consultations.

You will also support, advise and train dietetic students and other health care staff

Applicants must have good communication skills and experience of working with nutrition support including tube feeding at band 5 or above.

Ealing have tube feeds and oral nutritional supplements off FP10 and you will therefore be responsible for the provision of feed (without GP prescription) and equipment for Ealing patients.

The Ealing community team include specialist Nutrition Support Dietitians, Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular disease and Paediatric Dietitians as well as nutrition practitioners and assistants.

The department is committed to support continual professional development and clinical supervision.

To provide and develop the Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service in the Borough of Ealing.

To be responsible for providing dietetic clinics and domiciliary visits within agreed localities

To act as a source of expertise to members of Primary Health Care Teams, consultants, allied and other health professionals, local authority professionals, education, community groups and private industry

To develop and provide nutrition education and training to professionals within Ealing, student dietitians and community groups

To develop the specialist clinical service by contributing to quality improvement including carrying out audits and research.

Vaccination

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.

We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation.

We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.

We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare.

We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

Clinical - effectively carrying out clinics in health centres and home visits/nursing homes, being patient centred at all times and focusing on patient clinical and quality of life outcomes

Professional - team member, organising and planning and prioritising own diary, caseload and commitments

Teaching/Nutrition Education of staff and students

Clinical governance - risk management, health and safety, completing records, abiding by policies/procedures/guidelines, meeting service targets and KPIs