Job overview
Surrey Downs Health & Care
Join our dynamic and supportive team in delivering exceptional care to our community! We're seeking a dedicated Dietitian, whether you're a newly qualified professional or bring experience to the table. If you're passionate about patient-centered care, we want to hear from you.
In this role, you'll collaborate closely with our Lead Dietitian and team members to provide excellent dietary services across various settings, including patients' homes, community hospitals, care homes, and clinics. You'll have the chance to work with a diverse range of conditions, from nutrition support to managing coeliac disease, gastroenterology issues, weight management, diabetes, and more.
At Surrey Downs Health and Care, we offer a hybrid working model, granting you the flexibility to work remotely or at multiple sites throughout the borough. We're committed to your growth, providing opportunities for student training and professional development. Expect regular supervision and continuous professional development opportunities to enhance your skills and expertise.
Main duties of the job
To work within the team, contributing to team management and the development of innovative practice. To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of holistic care packages.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
1. The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
2. CSH Surrey
3. Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
4. Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
5. Work as part of the team undertaking lead responsibilities as negotiated and agreed with District Nurse
6. Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and dignity at all times
7. Assess individual care needs, implement and evaluate holistic programmes of care
8. Involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers
9. Take every opportunity to promote health and wellbeing of the patient
10. Develop effective communication and liaison systems
11. Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to SDHC procedures
12. Facilitate/undertake training and professional updating for team and students
13. Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff
14. Maintain, develop and monitor standards of evidence based nursing care
15. Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
16. Support/mentor team members and participate in clinical supervision activities
17. Work without direct supervision and to maintain close liaison with the senior team member, deputising as required
18. Be responsible and maintain timely patient care
19. Be responsible for maintain data entry and other record keeping
20. To work in co-operation and partnership with all other professionals and agencies involved in the care of the patient
21. Be aware of and act upon when necessary, procedures that are in place to protect vulnerable individuals
22. Participate in the SDHC Clinical Governance Strategy
23. Participate in the SDHC Risk Management Strategy
24. Undertake any such other duties which may be required from time to time as are consistent with the post
25. Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
26. Staff are employed to work within SDHC localities and may be reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more permanent basis, as requested by service needs.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
27. •1st level registration
28. •Evidence of clinical competencies
Desirable criteria
29. •Willingness to complete appropriate courses
30. •Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
31. •To have an understanding of current issues affecting the NHS
32. •Experience/knowledge relevant to particular post
Desirable criteria
33. •Relevant post registration experience
34. •Some community experience
Skills
Essential criteria
35. •Ability to assess, deliver and evaluate quality care
36. •IT and data entry skills
37. •Ability to organise own time efficiently
38. •Ability to develop new skills appropriate to role
Other
Essential criteria
39. •Car driver with a valid License to drive in UK with access to a car to use for business purposes
40. •Flexible
41. •Reliable
42. •Adapt positively to change
Desirable criteria
43. •Ability to work under pressure
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.
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Further details / informal visits contact
NameNicole SmithJob titleOperational ManagerEmail addressTelephone number07387139290