Lead Specialist Dietitian - Redruth, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Redruth, United Kingdom

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Description

Lead Specialist Dietitian:

NHS AfC:

Band 7:

Main area

Dietitian

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Grade

NHS AfC: Band 7

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time hours per week

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Job ref

Site

Camborne Redruth Community Hospital

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Town

Redruth

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Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata/per annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

06/06/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

_ Strategic Themes_

_ Great Care_
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

_Great Organisation_
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

_Great People_
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

_Great Partner_
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._

Job overview:

The lead specialist dietician will work across 7 days on a rotational basis, across the county as required, as a fully integrated member of the multi-disciplinary integrated community stroke service team(community).

To work as a specialist autonomous practitioner providing advanced clinical expert dietetic support and advice to patients and Health Professionals in the specialist area of stroke care.

To support the band 6 dietician and more junior members of the ICSS team and as this is a new service, to provide leadership in the development of dietetic care as part of the multidisciplinary team.

To lead and contribute to policy development on matters relating to service development for the ICSS Team.

To develop appropriate resources within this specialist area of dietetic practice.

To support education and training across the stroke pathway and to act as a clinical resource for colleagues.

To help to establish Research and Development and a robust Audit review of service within this specialist area of dietetics.

Main duties of the job:

Be a senior member of the ICSS multidisciplinary team and represent the team at regional/national meetings as appropriate.
Lead in the preparation and planning of evidencebased diet sheets, teaching material, dietetic literature and specialist services literature.
Work collaboratively with all members of the team and share information with team members formally and informally e.g. clinical reviews, discharge summaries and provide professional options when necessary.
Work autonomously as a specialist dietitian and manage own varied and potentially complex caseload in collaboration with members of the ICSS team and other teams across the stroke pathway.
Complete full assessments of individual's nutritional status, using appropriate anthropometric, biochemical and medical records and identify their nutritional requirements.
Devise core and specialist nutritional treatment plans e.g. refeeding programmes, enteral feeding regimens, diabetes, weight reduction, nutritional support, food intolerances, secondary prevention risk factor management.
Implement specialist group and individual treatments to achieve individual treatment goals
Identify and manage the risk of refeeding syndrome in nutritionally depleted individuals.

Working for our organisation:

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical an