Band 6 Specialist Adult Inpatient Dietitian

Job overview

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Have you ever wondered what happened to your patients once they transferred to a community hospital ward? Would you enjoy seeing how their dietetic care continues in a community setting? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has a vacancy in our high profile and dynamic community hospital inpatient team. This role can be flexed to nurture individuals at or near the start of their career or can build on and develop skills for more experienced dietitians.

This unique post is part of a multi professional community hospitals’ dietetic team with good support from dietetic assistant practitioners. The team leads enteral feeding and supplement prescribing and provides high quality nutritional care at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital in Birmingham. Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role.  You will also have opportunity to work alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding knowledge and practice.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Inpatient Dietetic Team and through this contribute to the development of nutrition support initiatives such as outcome measures, nutritional assessment and care pathways. This involves taking particular responsibility for initiatives and issues relating to enteral feeding in wards, such as the maintenance of the Trust Enteral Feeding Policy.

To manage a complex and diverse caseload of inpatients which includes liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely and cost effective nutrition support for patients who are enterally fed or on oral nutritional supplements.

To communicate effectively with colleagues within and outside the department to facilitate effective patient care, service development and multidisciplinary working. This includes attending relevant meetings regarding the patients to represent their nutrition and dietetic care.

Full duties and responsibilities are outlined in JD.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Work under the dietetic team leader for inpatient units and support the development and delivery of the service provided.
• Work as an autonomous specialist practitioner, deputising for the dietetic team leader for the bedded units  and be responsible for co-ordinating all areas of patient clinical care and service provision in their absence.
• Actively pass on, and also encourage others to share, their skills, knowledge and experience within both formal and informal environments, having responsibility for the development of other dietitians, health professionals and students.
• Fulfil all tasks and work as part of a team. This includes taking responsibility for delegated tasks, which do not fall within the work outlined, as reasonably requested by the Service Lead
• Deliver a high-quality dietetic service for stroke and adult inpatients at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital.
• Support multidisciplinary team working on the inpatient wards in order to develop and implement high quality, integrated patient care.
• Provide specialised advice and second clinical opinion to other colleagues, working in collaboration with other teams and services in order to support a consistent and equitable service. Full duties and responsibilities are outlined in JD&PS.

This unique post is part of a community hospitals’ dietetic team which has good support from dietetic assistant practitioners. This team is part of Birmingham Community Nutrition which provide a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham and Solihull ICB and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic learners from local higher education establishments.

Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.

The department has a comprehensive structure to support Clinical Governance and your personal development via annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.

Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us.