Specialist Dietitian (Home Enteral Feeding and Nutrition Support)

Job overview

Join our forward-thinking Nutrition and Dietetics Service and develop specialist expertise in Home Enteral Feeding and Nutrition Support. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your clinical skills across community and acute services while contributing to the supervision and development of junior colleagues within a supportive and dynamic team.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Adult Clinical Dietetic Team for a motivated and enthusiastic Dietitian to join our Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) and Nutrition Support Service.

This post offers the opportunity to develop specialist expertise in home enteral tube feeding and complex nutrition support while working as part of a highly supportive and experienced dietetic team. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of high-quality nutritional care across community and acute settings and play an important role in supporting and line managing junior members of the team.

This position would be ideal for a Dietitian with a strong interest in Home Enteral Feeding who is keen to develop advanced clinical skills and broaden their experience across a varied adult caseload.

Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• Provide specialist dietetic assessment and intervention for patients requiring home enteral tube feeding and complex nutrition support.
• Manage a varied caseload across community and acute services.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective patient-centred care.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and governance activities.
• Support, supervise and develop junior members of the dietetic workforce and students.
• Provide expert advice and education to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for a diverse caseload of Home Enteral Tube Feeding & complex nutrition support patients within Northumberland & North Tyneside in a variety of settings including face to face / telephone clinics, patient's homes & acute / community hospital wards.

You must be able to work both autonomously and as part of a team within the wider MDT. It is also expected you will contribute to student training and act as a support for our Band 5 Dietitians & Dietetic Support Workers. We encourage participation in regular CPD activities and we hold regular departmental and team meetings including a monthly journal club allowing the opportunity to learn from training, case discussions and peer support.

The post holder is expected to:

• Work closely within Home Enteral Tube Feeding & Nutrition Support service & assist with service development
• Manage a busy & complex caseload of patients with a variety of conditions
• Be an active part of the Regional Home Enteral Tube Feeding Network Group
• Provide support to a varied caseload across acute & community settings
• Deliver highly specialised dietetic advice to patients and their families / carers
• Work in a strategic manner and have a positive attitude to caseload & specialist area
• Act as a specialist resource for patients, their families and other health professionals
• Be able to implement change using advanced counselling and motivational interviewing techniques
• Plan and organise education and training sessions for colleagues, student dietitians, other health professionals, and other outside agencies
• Advise and formulate policies relating to specialist area of work (HEF / Nutrition Support)
• Participate in audit & research
• Contribute to, develop, monitor and comply with standards and policies for the dietetic department and the Trust

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.