Job summary
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust arecurrently seeking organised and motivated candidates to fulfil Band 7 MacmillanDietitian opportunities within the team at Wigan and Leigh Hospice under along-term placement you a dynamic and enthusiasticindividual with excellent communication skills looking to embark on a newopportunity within the NHS? If so, we would like to hear from you today!
Thepost holder will ideally have experience working within the community in asimilar role, with cancer patients. They mustbe able to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a complex workload whilstworking both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team.
Highlevels of both written and oral communication are essential to this post withthe ability todeliver or discuss difficult diagnosis and prognosis with tact, empathy,managing distressed or aggressive patients or carers/relatives. The post holdermust be able to communicate accurate and sensitive information to patients,carers, and relatives as well as within their own team & colleagues.
Main duties of the job
Role Details:
This role will bepurely clinical and patient facing no service improvement tasks involved
To berecognised as a highly specialist dietitian in the field of cancer andpalliative care
To assess nutritional status taking into account anthropometricdata, clinical conditions/treatment, in-depth biochemical data andsocial/cultural factors
To estimate the patients current nutritional intakeand nutritional requirements using recognised validated techniques To manage aclinical caseload of patients with highly complex cancer/palliative care needs monitoring, evaluating and reviewing dietetic treatment interventions, and tomodify as necessary
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To be recognised as a highly specialist dietitian inthe field of cancer and palliative care
To assess nutritional status taking into accountanthropometric data, clinical conditions/treatment, in-depth biochemical dataand social/cultural factors
To estimate the patients current nutritional intakeand nutritional requirements using recognised validated techniques To manage aclinical caseload of patients with highly complex cancer/palliative care needs monitoring, evaluating and reviewing dietetic treatment interventions, and tomodify as necessary
To work with patients, carers and other relevantprofessionals to identify dietetic treatment goals as part of the overall careplan, using a range of specialist dietetic standardised and non-standardisedassessments
To use in-depth clinical reasoning, and hold acomprehensive understanding of caner and palliative conditions and wide-rangingknowledge of treatment options to plan and implement individual care plans
To interpret and analyse relevant clinical andnon-clinical facts to formulate accurate intervention
To utilise examination and assessment findings todevelop and implement highly specialist programmes of treatment, underpinned byevidence-based practice. To be able to relate assessment results to thepresenting disease/pathology/impairment
To set appropriate treatments aim and objectives innegotiation with patient and/or carer wherever possible, incorporating riskfactors, safety, patient choice and ability and independence
To contribute to multi-professional patient goalsetting as part of the Macmillan AHP Team
To facilitate and support clients decisions makingin relation to current and anticipated need, ensuring that they are cared forin their preferred place up to the point of death/discharge
To monitor and evaluate episodes of care tofacilitate achievement of goals against outcomes
To promote health and well-being and raise awarenessof risk factors related to cancer
To produce, disseminate and updatereports/guidelines regarding individual care plans to cares/patients and otherprofessionals including those in the Macmillan team
To use comprehensive knowledge of othermulti-disciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure best referralmanagement and achieve the highest standard of care
To develop, promote and maintain practice of highquality dietetic interventions within complex cancer/palliative care team andact as an expert resource to the generalist teams
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. To maintain own competence to practice at a highly specialist level to meet professional and AHP requirements for registration British Dietetic Association (BDA) and Health Professions Council (HPCP)
Experience
Essential
2. Experience working as a Band 7 Dietitian in the community with cancer patients