SNR SPECIALIST DIETITIAN

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated, team player with excellent  communication skills to join our dedicated team of diabetes dietitians working as core members of a dynamic Diabetes Service.

This exciting and diverse role will provide an opportunity to further develop your clinical and leadership skills within the diabetes dietetic team. You will be advising patients with diabetes on a one to one basis and via structured education (e.g. DAFNE) and as a non medical prescriber or under an extended role  make suggestions for adjusting / titration of drug dosages.You will also provide specialist support for new technologies e.g. pump, CGM (continuous blood glucose monitoring) mobile applications and other applications as they are rolled out in this fast pace area of care.

Depending on your experience to date, we will support you with training and up skilling in the various diabetes technologies such as hybrid closed loop pumps.

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking Consultant led MDT clinics
• Undertaking stand alone dietetic advisory clinics
• Participating in weekly MDT
• Opportunity to achieve extended scope role status to independently adjust insulin regimes and/or non-medical prescribing status.
• Educating patients on latest diabetes technologies (insulin pumps and continuous glucose sensors and following patients up as required).
• Leading on patient structured education programmes
• Develop patient information and clinical guidelines.
• Actively partake in regional QI projects
• Engaging with the regional and national Diabetes Network meetings and dietetic forums.
• Benchmark practice and clinical outcomes of adults on diabetes diet interventions with other centres to inform on future practice.
• Support education and training of dietitians, pre-registration dietitians and other health professionals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To lead on the development and provision of a high quality, evidence based and effective nutrition and dietetic outpatient service for adults with diabetes with varying degrees of complexity, individually and through structured education.
• To work as part of the Nutrition and Dietetic Service and the Diabetes Service within the Emergency, Specialist Medicine  (ESM CMG) without direct supervision and whilst exercising a large degree of autonomy.
• To provide an expert specialist outpatient Dietetic and Nutrition Service to adults with diabetes whilst under the care of Diabetes Consultants, UHL NHS Trust. As part of this role you will be expected to act as an expert resource on diabetes and diet therapy and advise other dietitians and health care professionals on nutrition and dietetic matters (local and national).