Community Nutrition Support Dietitian - Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom - NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board

Description

Main area Dietitian Grade

NHS AfC:
Band 7
Contract Fixed term: 11 months (Maternity Cover)

Hours Part time - 22.Employer NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Kao Park Town Harlow Salary £43,742 - £50,056 per annum plus fringe allowance, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 16/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 23/05/2024


NHS AfC:
Band 7

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.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.

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.

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'

You will be working in a learning organisation and in a team that strives to support all staff to grow and to develop.

Able to assess and treat a specialist caseload, manages this through audit, assessment and training of champions in GP practices and beyond
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
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.

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.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.

Undergraduate Degree/2 year Post-Graduate Diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics
Evidence of continued professional development
Demonstrated experience in an NHS Healthcare environment
Student Clinical Educators Course
Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Alison Smith Job title Prescribing support consultant dietitian Email address
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