Band 7 Dietitian

Job overview

We are excited to offer opportunities for highly skilled dietitians to join our collaborative team, leading nutritional support and skilled interventions and pathway optimisation across mental health care division

The post is an exciting opportunity to be based across In-Patient mental health care services.  You will be responsible for  managing a diverse case load of complex  patients in Weight Management with co-morbidity and Nutritional support  patients in addition to supporting your team with their case loads.  You will receive and complete regular supervision for yourself and others and support will be provided to  you to gain your confidence and competencies whilst you work as the team leader managing your teams competence and confidence within their score of practice

You will provide daily in-patient ward based clinics to assess and review patients.  You will attend MDT's  to communicate your treatment care plan and monitoring, this will involve frequent networking  with all health-professionals.  You will deliver Nutritional Screening training to a variety of staff and will support audit and the objectives in the Nutrition and hydration Strategy.

Using evidence based practice and working within the  British Dietetic Association Professional code of conduct  is paramount. You will be encouraged to attend training and courses to support and enhance  Learning  and development and apply skills in your practice as well as that of your team

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist evidence based clinical care (and expertise and team leadership) to ensure an effective dietetic service which aims to maximise the nutritional status of service users within in-patient areas of the Mental Health Care Division.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Flexible and adaptable, comfortable working in a dynamic health care environment. Provide care, advice, and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.

Responsible for the delivery of identified training.

Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting. This may include procurement and enteral feed contract reviews.

Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.

Ensure that team work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.

Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.

Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.

Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.

Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.

Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.

Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.

Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possib

Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.

Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of duties and responsibilities.