Community Specialist Dietitian - Enfield, United Kingdom - North Middlesex University Hospital

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Job overview

Community Specialist Dietitian hours per week (1.0 WTE)

Contract Fixed Term (12 months maternity cover)

We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our team of innovative community dietitians' dedicated adult dietetics. The role involves providing a community dietetic service in the primary care setting and care homes for all areas of dietetics including diabetes, obesity management, hyperlipidaemia and oral nutritional support. The post holder will deliver care primarily through clinics face to face and by telephone and home visits and will provide support to GP's and health professionals.

The post holder will manage their own adult caseload and will be working with the community dietetic Team providing a high quality dietetic service to patients and carers' in this specialist area of dietetics.

There will be opportunities to support student dietitians.

Good communication and teaching skills are essential and the post holder must be able to prioritise tasks, manage your time effectively and be able to work flexibly within the team.

the post holder will be encouraged to build on your knowledge and skills through CPD.

The successful candidate will work closely with our friendly and supportive team consisting with specialist leads in primary care, care homes and HEF.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and that work delegated to support staff.

2. To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients using a high level of clinical reasoning and assessment techniques

3. To utilise an extensive knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options to select and deliver specialised dietetic packages of care

4. To utilise high level counselling and interpersonal skills with patients

5. To ensure that patients and carers are involved in the planning of their care packages, using negotiation skills as appropriate and providing support to patients in relation to their dietary care plan

6. To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

7. To monitor and adjust individual treatment plans on an on-going basis as required

8. To be responsible for maintaining accurate comprehensive patient treatment records in line with the British Dietetic Association /HPC standards of practice, ECS dietetics and The NorthMid policies and to communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.

9. Provide specialist dietetic advice to others regarding the management and care of patients.

Note: DBS checks are required for any staff that have regular contact with patients in the course of their normal duties.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Purpose

As part of the Dietetic Service providing care to a multi cultural and diverse population, to deliver a high standard of service to adult patients in primary care services.

Key roles are:

To provide a specialist community dietetic service providing patient centred, therapy led nutrition support to adults resident in Enfield in Care Homes, patient's home and clinics.

To provide a community dietetic service to patients requiring oral nutrition support at home.

To contribute to the primary care dietetic service provision in outpatient clinics and group activities

To supervise the dietetic assistants when required.

Job Statement

To perform comprehensive dietetic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, holding the responsibility for own caseload of specialist and complex patients.

To undergo supervision and development support in the form of regular individual and team supervision sessions as part of the wider dietetic team.

To be aware of and to highlight to the line manager any clinical governance issues pertaining to the role and practice.

To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and wider Trust initiatives

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

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12 To prepare and deliver group education sessions for patients.

This job description is intended as a basic guide to the responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. The post holder may be asked to undertake duties that are in line with the level of role.

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We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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