Clinical Specialist Dietitian - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Description

Band 8a

Main area

Dietetics

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Grade

Band 8a

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Contract

Secondment: 12 months

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Hours

Part time
Flexible working
Home or remote working

15 hours per week
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Job ref

Site

City Hospital

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Town

Nottingham

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Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Today at 23:59Job overview

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a new service delivery for people who have kidney disease, medically fit to enter the transplant list but need to lose weight.

You will be responsible for a number of patients who will be regularly followed up over the course of 12 months.

The role is flexible with some home working and face to face duties. You will work as part of the a dynamic and proactive MDT. Experience in working in weight loss is essential. Renal dietetic experience is desirable.

Additionally you will have responsibility for providing regular updates to the NUH charity, the renal team and the renal dietetic team.

The project will be based at the City Campus and you will be responsible in ensuring the delivery of this including looking at different ways of working and thinking innovatively.

As an autonomous clinical specialist dietitian, you will be responsible for ensuring safe practice through development of a caseload management plan and to identify treatment priorities in a variety of situations.

You will provide expertise and input into the strategic planning and implementation of multidisciplinary clinical guidelines, care pathways and protocols within the trust, in line with national and regional guidance within specialist areas of practice.

Working for our organisation

We are a large and friendly department of around 100 staff including assistants and technicians providing dietetic and nutrition services across all areas of the Trust and beyond.

As a large acute teaching hospital over two main sites, NUH has a range of fantastic opportunities for staff to develop their careers within the NHS.

The Dietetic and Nutrition service is part of the Therapies and Rehabilitation Services pathway, which is one of the pathways that together make up the Clinical Support Division at NUH.

We are a diverse pathway of AHPs and support staff, employing over 600 staff who work together to deliver high quality care.

We are committed to continuing professional development for all our staff through a range of opportunities that include recognised training courses, involvement in service development and audit.

We have close links with the University of Nottingham, and take student dietitians for their placements.

We support dietitians working toward Master levels, including university master modules and the Clinical Updated course run by the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition group of the British Dietetic Association.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Please refer to the full job description

To provide clinical leadership within the specialist service, through consultation and joint working with all bands of staff, in the management of complex patients, this will involve review of their clinical reasoning, dietetic assessment and treatment plans.

To maintain and develop high standards of patients care and facilitate and implement evidence based practice by ensuring implementation of standards set in relevant national guidance, specialist clinical group guidance and specialist relevant areas.

Also by ensuring staff are informed of recent developments through attendance at research based conferences, relevant network meetings and postgraduate education and training courses.

To develop local pathways of care for specialist area patients

To evaluate the effectiveness of the service through service evaluation & clinical audit in liaison with the Therapy Services Manager and relevant stakeholders.

Where appropriate, offer extended scopes of practice so as to facilitate the optimal management of patients within a clinic setting (i.e. non-medical prescribing, leading clinics, extended role of dietetic practice)

To ensure waiting list targets are maintained by initiating and developing new ways of working (e.g. telephone consultation, 'opt-in' appointments, SOS appointments).

To ensure high standards of clinical care within the section on issues pertaining to specialist area to own team and a wide range of disciplines (e.g.

medical staff and the MDT) in line with the education and training strategy by:

In-service training and development programme

One to one coaching / teaching

Clinical supervision

Presenting lectures at under and post-graduate level

Practical sessions

Acting as an information resource

To establish collaborative links with other local and national advanced practitioners and disseminate information and development.

To lead on and participate in clinical research projects that enhance patient car