Are you newly qualified or a band 5 dietitian looking for a rotational post? The dietetic service within Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership offers a band 5 rotational post across our integrated acute and community dietetic service.
The successful candidates will gain clinical experience in both the acute and community dietetic teams at Leighton Hospital, rotating through gastroenterology, surgery, diabetes and stroke. There is also opportunity to work with the community home enteral feeding dietetic team and general practice service, offering a wide experience at the start of a career.
This role is part of the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages several hospitals and an intermediate care centre in Cheshire.
Responsibilities
* Support clinical care and service delivery for adult patients across Mid Cheshire Hospitals Trust and Central Cheshire as part of the Adult Dietetic Team.
* Manage and prioritise a defined patient caseload on wards at Leighton Hospital, provide a regular general dietetic clinic, conduct community visits and deliver patient education.
* Formulate, deliver and monitor nutritional care plans for referred patients across a range of general wards and outpatient settings.
* Attend regular huddle meetings to support clinical practice and workload management, and participate in regular supervision with a mentor.
* Participate in on‑going health‑care professional training in nutritional screening, food‑first advice, and structured group patient education linked to the rotation, including IBS/FODMAP, cardiac rehabilitation, gestational diabetes, and T1DM & T2DM.
* Engage in dietetic student training, receiving training and guidance.
* Practice safely within the professional code of conduct and level of competency, including the management of patients in your care.
* Deliver the dietetic service to non‑complex clinical areas such as general medicine (including cardiology, respiratory medicine, general surgery and orthopaedics).
* Communicate information in an understandable form to patients, including difficult information such as life‑long diet restrictions.
* Gain acceptance for treatment and motivate or persuade patients to comply with treatment programmes despite potential barriers such as dementing illness, cognitive impairment, hearing or sight impairment.
* Assess nutritional status considering anthropometric data, clinical condition/treatment, biochemical data and social and cultural factors.
* Estimate the patient’s current nutritional intake and nutritional requirements using recognised validated techniques where available.
* Collect all relevant information such as dietary history, drug history and medical history to formulate nutritional care plans and provide personalised verbal and written information to patients.
* Monitor and review nutritional care plans against outcome measures and adjust plans to facilitate achievement of goals.
* Liaise with catering staff to ensure appropriate therapeutic diets are provided.
* Provide information and support to other health‑care professionals to ensure a multidisciplinary ward team approach to nutritional care.
* Contribute to ward rounds and case conferences as appropriate to explain nutritional plans.
* Accurately record all assessments and interventions in medical notes, nursing documentation and dietetic record cards in line with service policy.
* Communicate in writing with other agencies (e.g., GPs, community dietitians, consultants) to keep them informed about ongoing patient management.
* Ensure safe and timely discharge of patients, particularly those requiring home enteral feeding, including liaison with relevant community health‑care professionals.
* Arrange feeding equipment, training and safe use and tracking of equipment (e.g., scales, feeding equipment).
* Provide dietetic input into patient group sessions such as cardiac rehabilitation, planning, delivering and evaluating sessions.
Qualifications
* Strong communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.
* Ability to prioritise a caseload and seek assistance as appropriate.
* Newly qualified or band 5 dietitian status.
* Demonstrated ability to work across acute and community settings.
* Willingness to engage in ongoing professional development and training.
* Commitment to practice safely within the professional code of conduct and level of competency.
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