Specialist Stroke and Care of the Elderly Dietitian

Job overview

• To deliver an efficient and effective nutrition and dietetic service to the Acute Stroke Unit, older adults, and their carers.
• To support junior staff to develop clinical skills to manage the complex needs of the older adult.
• Tol be an educator for health professionals/students involved in the care of stroke patients and older adults.
• Management of own complex clinical caseload providing specialist nutrition and dietetic advice in specialty fields to include Stroke and Care of the Elderly.
• Facilitate reflection on the service delivery and identify and support on quality improvement work.
• To support the nutrition nurse specialist with the Trust’s artificial nutrition safety and quality initiatives
• To provide one day per week in the community including 3 GP clinics and 15 hours per month at a local nursing home.

Main duties of the job

• As a specialist dietitian, to be responsible for and lead the development and provision of a specialist, evidence based dietetic service to care of the elderly and stroke services.
• To provide specialist dietary advice to stroke patients and older patients with complex nutritional needs, referred in the acute setting.
• To work autonomously in providing an expert dietetic service to the acute stroke unit, including attending special interest meetings.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues such as speech & language therapists in joint assessments of patients with complicated diagnoses.
• To be the lead for service improvements on the acute troke unit and care of the elderly service lines.
• To provide highly specialist dietetic advice to the multidisciplinary team (MDT) through attendance and participation in MDT meetings to provide expert evidence-based advice to clinicians, patients and carers.
• To advise the MDT on treatment/interventions where there are conflicting indicators or ethical dilemmas.
• To provide general GP clinics and input for a local nursing home one day per week.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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