Job summary
Are you an experienced dietitianlooking for an exciting new opportunity? Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trustare currently providing these opportunities within the dietetics team. Thetrust is delighted to offer the opportunity to a motivated individual who willwork with a range of patient including those with adult diabetes and weightmanagement
Working in Buckinghamshire, youwill be part of a 6,000-person team of highly trained clinical staff, workingwith a Trust whose goal is to Collaborate with each other, aspire to be thebest, respect everyone, and enable people to take responsibility. The care fora population of 500,000 patients across their 3 hospital sites, local bases andthe community. Their stroke service is one of the best in the region, and are acentre for burns and plastics, along with a world famous National SpinalInjuries Centre.
Main duties of the job
Providing dietary advice topatients and carers referred in the acute and community settings, withparticular focus on the specialist condition of the patient.
Making dietary recommendationsafter calculation of nutritional requirements based on interpretation ofbiochemistry, anthropometrics, anatomy and physiology, clinicalcondition/prognosis and other physical parameters.
Developing effectivedietetic care plans with patient centred goals, and advise on use ofprescribable nutritional formulations. To provide appropriate treatment,monitoring and review of patients dietary needs.
Accurately recording allassessments and interventions in medical notes, nursing documentation anddietetic records in line with Trust and departmental policies. To communicatein writing with other agencies including GPs, community nurses and dietitiansabout patient care prescription requests for nutritional products, homeenteral feeding forms.
Providing dietary advice indietetic and consultant led clinics
Working autonomously toeffectively time manage and prioritise individual workload, balancing patientcaseload and non-patient related work demands. Prepared to work flexibly as amember of multidisciplinary teams.
Using interviewing andnegotiating skills to communicate advice appropriately and effectively topatients, families, carers and health professionals.
Liaising with home enteralfeeding dietitian for patients being discharged with artificial nutrition.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Under direction, assess and monitor patients, offeringtherapeutic dietary advice and education, to a range of patients includingthose in a defined specialist area.
Provide specialist nutritional and dietetic advice tomedical, health care professionals and other agencies.
Contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole throughparticipation in service development.
Working with the dietetic andmultidisciplinary teams, to be an educator in diet and nutrition. Communicatingappropriately and effectively to plan, deliver, evaluate and develop projects,education sessions, health promotion activities and group activities withpatients, carers, families, staff, student and other professionals medical andnon-medical. To provide up-to-date dietary information and training, to helpimprove evidence based and best practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. HCPC Registration & Enhanced DBS
2. University Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
Experience
Essential
3. Experience of working within the NHS
4. Experience in assessment and treatment of malnutrition, artificial nutrition support, interpreting anthropometrics and biochemistry; MDT working, discharge planning and onward referral/signposting