Job overview

You will predominantly be working with CKD outpatients and you will also spend some time working within Kettering General Hospital to provide a service to renal inpatients. The acute part of the role is 0.48wte. The remaining 0.3wte is to provide a service to dialysis patients who receive care at the Kettering dialysis unit. The post offers a good variety of clinical work and an excellent opportunity to work in an established MDT.

Main duties of the job

·        Telephone clinics for advanced kidney care, some clinics may be attended in person and off main site.

·        Providing in-patient care for dialysis patients and advanced kidney care patients who may require specialist nutrition advice

• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations, multipathologies within acute inpatient and outpatient settings and provide effective monitoring.

• Formulating individual management and treatment plans for patients using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements  to be used. This includes secondary prevention

• Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.

• Evaluating patients’ progress and measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work

• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans. This will include patients who have difficulty with understanding communication

• Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.