Prescribing Support Dietitian - Harlow, United Kingdom - NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
1 week ago
Description
We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian with good nutrition knowledge and experience, to work mostly in West Essex.You will be managed by our Prescribing Support Consultant Dietitian and work within a small friendly & supportive team of dietitians covering the ICS geography of West Essex and Hertfordshire.
The organisation encourages flexible working.
Our overall aim is to ensure that patients in the whole of Hertfordshire & West Essex are offered excellent NHS care that borrows and adapts the best work from elsewhere and that helps us in our ongoing quest to provide the best quality services that we can for our 1.6M ICS population.
Key outcome areas include:
Supporting primary care to improve prescribing of oral nutritional supplements
Supporting primary care to improve prescribing of Specialist infant formulas (CMPA)
Working with community dietetics to support use of a 'whole care home approach'
Working with GP practices to de-prescribe some vitamin supplements
There is scope for the right person to develop the role.
You will be working in a learning organisation and in a team that strives to support all staff to grow and to develop.
Acts as an advanced clinical dietitian, leading for several specialist areas
Develops and implements local guidelines across nutrition and dietetics. This includes significant liaison with staff in acute services, community services and primary care - great influencing skills are a key part of the role
Provides specialist dietetic advice to the PMOT team and ICB GP practices
Undertakes training and research
The post holder will support the Head of Department and their team to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.
The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.
It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.
So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.
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