Job summary
- Main area
- Paeds Dietitian
- Grade
- 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-BANK -LIT1297
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wembley Centre for Health & Care
- Town
- Wembley
- Salary
- £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 22/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Primary Care Dietitian-ONW
6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Job Purpose
Working closely with the Primary Care Dietetic Team, you will provide face-to-face and virtual clinical nutrition and dietetic services in the community (including outpatient clinics and domiciliary visits to housebound & care home patients). The post holder will have their own caseload of adult patients and will focus on a range of nutritional issues including malnutrition and chronic disease.
9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday
Would consider reduced hours / part-time hours
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for:
· Provision of specialist Dietetic assessments and treatment to adult patients at health centres and a domiciliary service to patients in their own home and Care Homes within Brent.
· Management of specialist caseload of clients who are malnourished or enterally fed and to maintain associated patient records.
· Making recommendations to GPs on appropriate prescribing for their patients’ dietary requirements.
· Liaising with Dietitians and other health care professionals to ensure clients discharged from secondary care are followed up appropriately and receive ongoing input as required following discharge
· Participating in clinical governance including Quality Improvement activities within Nutrition & Dietetics Brent.
Working for our organisation
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
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stay well
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manage their own health with the right support
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avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To take a delegated lead on the development of service objectives or projects in liaison with colleagues.
· To assume delegated tasks as requested by Head of Nutrition & Dietetics, including participation in working groups and policy development groups.
· Organise and manage own caseload including clinical cases, health promotion and education.
· To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible in accordance with Trust policies whilst maintaining effective communication with the Head of Nutrition & Dietetics.
· To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment (eg wheelchair scales, hoist scales) ensuring standards of infection control and safety are complied with – including equipment loaned to clients and that used for community-based programmes.
· To be responsible for ordering and maintaining department supplies of nutrition support samples, associated enteral feed equipment and ensure current information is available for their use.
· To advise Head of Nutrition & Dietetics on issues of service delivery including clinical activity, service pressures versus service capacity.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Degree or postgraduate diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics
- Health and Care Professions Council registration
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Membership of British Dietetic Association
- Post graduate qualification in a dietetic related field (eg paediatric dietetics, health promotion, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-registration clinical dietetic experience
- Experience of providing dietetic advice for children (age 0 – 18)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using EMIS or a similar patient information system (eg SystmOne, RiO).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shanelle Green
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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