Is home Enteral Feeding / community dietetics the career pathway you are looking for?
The successful candidate would be part of an enthusiastic and dynamic expanding Home Enteral Feeding (HEF)/community dietetic team and enjoy strong MDT working with the wider community team including community nurses, specialist nurses, and medicine management team.
You would be based at Leighton Hospital working across Mid Cheshire providing clinical intervention, patient and healthcare professional training, and education to patients in their own homes, nursing homes, and community clinics. This post offers the opportunity for a dietitian to further develop their clinical skills primarily in enteral feeding and nutritional support whilst maintaining core therapeutic dietetic knowledge.
If you are starting out in your career and would like to develop skills in community/home enteral feeding, the team could support a band 5 development post moving to band 6 following completion of competency training.
Please be aware you must have a valid UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes to apply for this role.
To deliver specialist dietetic services to adults requiring enteral feeding, prescribing support, or therapeutic dietary intervention across South Cheshire and Vale Royal, as part of the Home Enteral Feeding Team. To provide regular home visits, virtual clinics, and community dietetic clinics for this patient group, including the placement of enteral feeding tubes following competency-based training.
To formulate, deliver, and monitor nutritional care plans for patients. This includes complex clinical conditions and diet therapy within the community setting, including in patients' own homes and continuing care establishments.
To be recognized as an expert source of knowledge in the field of enteral tube feeding and Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS), contributing to the development of clinical guidelines, resources, and education packages.
The post requires developed communication and interpersonal skills for MDT working, patient education on a one-to-one and group basis, and healthcare professional training. Ideally, you will have broad dietetic experience, including enteral feeding.
Competency-based training will be provided in all aspects of community dietetics and HEF as required. Our service is committed to the training of student dietitians and other healthcare professionals.
The department encourages innovation and supports continuous professional development. We have embraced paperless working and are supported with enhanced IT facilities.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe, and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. It was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.
We employ almost 5,000 staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, and offer services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.
The Trust is part of the Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a local health partnership providing a range of community services across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
To practice safely within the professional code of conduct and level of competency for all aspects of work, including patient management.
To contribute to the dietetic service delivery to adult community patients, including therapeutic diets, malnutrition, and enteral feeding, requiring specialized nutritional knowledge of enteral products, tube care, PEG site management, and transitional feeding. Managing and prioritizing a defined patient caseload within the community setting.
To promote the role of the dietitian within the multidisciplinary team and develop competency to undertake procedures such as replacement of balloon-retained gastrostomy tubes, in consultation with the community team leader.
To work closely with speech and language therapists to assess community patients prior to referral for PEG placement, against MCHFT criteria, and to refer directly to the consultant physician as appropriate.
To collaborate with MMT on cost-effective prescribing in the community.
This advert closes on Wednesday 20 Aug 2025.
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