Job summary
Nottingham CityCare are excited to be adding an Advanced Diabetes Specialist Dietitian to our established and forward thinking integrated Diabetes team. We are seeking an individual who is motivated, a team player and can relate with CityCares values and behaviours to form part of our high performing, highly skilled team.
The successful candidate will play a crucial clinical role in the person-centred assessment, planning, and coordination of care and support for people in Nottingham City with diabetes.
The aim of this role is to promote engagement with appropriate services, contribute to more effective specialist management, and prevent potential negative health outcomes of diabetes, including avoiding unnecessary diabetes-related hospital admissions.
This multi-disciplinary team works in partnership with Nottingham University Hospitals trust and wider community services and consists of Consultants, Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Dietitians, Educators, Support Workers and Administrators delivers high quality community-based Diabetes care to the population of Nottingham City.
As part of this recruitment process the service will consider a B6 to B7 development opportunity in line with CityCare's progressive culture and commitment to our strategic aim to provide rewarding working lives and careers.
This post is working part time 15 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
Key roles of this opportunity are to:
We are looking for an experienced dietitian to lead, manage and collaborate within the integrated diabetes team to ensure effective care for the people within Nottingham City who live with Type 1 & 2 Diabetes and related co-morbidities.
The post holder will be expected to support the development, planning and implementation of local service strategies whilst ensuring compliance to both local and national guidelines.
The Dietitian will need to demonstrate evidence expertise within the long-term health condition, Diabetes using evidenced based practice to develop education and training to both people living with diabetes and other healthcare professionals.
There is a clinical patient facing element to this role which includes the delivery of multi-disciplinary clinics,domiciliary visits and structured education. There will also be opportunity to support the development of a community insulin pump service working in collaboration with Nottingham University Hospitals.
This position includes the direct line management and support of other dietitians proportionate to the position hours.
About us
We are a
provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the
health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and
care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a
passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference
everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of
kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do,
guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently
deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add
social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to
make a difference in peoples lives.
CityCare value
the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications
from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or
Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented
within our organisation.
We are proud to be a forces-friendly
organisation and are dedicated to supporting Veterans, Service Leavers, Reservists, and
military spouses/partners. We value the unique skills and contributions you
bring.
CityCare is an
equal opportunities employer. We are positive about employing people with
disabilities. If you require your application in a different format please
contact People Services on 0115 8839418. CityCare is committed to the
protection of vulnerable adults and children.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
- To act as lead dietitian for the dietetic management of Type 1 & 2 Diabetes and related co-morbidities
- To act as lead dietician providing expertise within the community specialist diabetes nursing team and to other healthcare professionals within Nottingham City in relation to nutrition and diabetes advice.
- To support strategic developments within the community diabetes nursing team and the Nottingham City Diabetes Service
- To maintain, develop and provide education and training on diabetes and related co- morbidities to health care professionals, other relevant professions, students, patients and the public.
Dimensions
- To be the dietetic lead within the integrated community diabetes team providing knowledge and expertise for evidence-based dietary guidelines, practice and education, working within the service as appropriate.
- To work collaboratively and across organisational boundaries to provide evidence-based practice and holistic care to people with diabetes in a variety of settings.
- Support diabetes patients registered with Nottingham City GP Practices, as defined by inclusion criteria for the service.
- To offer a specialist resource to health care professionals working in Nottingham City.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical
- Receiving, interpreting and prioritising relevant referrals from a variety of health and social service professionals for patients with diabetes
- To be an expert source of knowledge, therapeutic dietary advice and treatment recommendations for patients with diabetes and health professionals
- To develop individual patient centred care plans based on nutritional requirements including interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical conditions, medication, diet history, family and social history.
- Provide appropriate dietary counselling, therapeutic, lifestyle advice to patients and carers. This will include domiciliary settings where appropriate
- To undertake patient facing work within various venues across Nottingham city, including joint clinics with other members of the diabetes team e.g. Consultant and Diabetes Specialist Nurse, this may also include domiciliary visits
- To deliver DAFNE structured education programme to the citizens of Nottingham City.
- Attending clinical and multi-disciplinary team meetings as required.
- Maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records. Managing own clinical caseload
- Undertaking data collection e.g. the use of SystmOne and other packages to collect patient data statistics and undertake audit.
- Be competent in the use of Information Technology and its application to Dietetics; using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint effectively, as well as Clinical System Programmes for the accurate review, updates and documentation of patient care plans
- Regularly undertakes performance management data collection and interpretation of the data in accordance with relevant service outcome measures and key performance indicators
Education and Training
- Demonstrate knowledge of national and local guidelines, ensuring the service is fully compliant.
- To support the wider team in implementing the strategic direction for diabetes.
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based diabetes dietary knowledge, dietetic practice and the DAFNE curriculum
- To actively lead on the education and clinical updating of diabetes colleagues and health professionals including dietetic students
- Identifying the need for, developing, delivering and evaluating diabetes patient education programmes for specialist dietary and lifestyle management of people with Type 1 and 2 diabetes. e.g. Desmond, Dafne.
- Delivery will include communicating effectively with patients and carers to ensure understanding of the condition in one-to-one or group education settings.
- Developing, organising and delivering evidence-based training, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials and evaluation. Empowering front line professionals to give dietary and lifestyle modification advice to their patients with diabetes.
- Responding to requests from relevant community groups and patient support groups for dietary education on the prevention and management of diabetes and related co morbidities.
- Support the ongoing professional development of diabetes dietitians/educators and carry out line management
- Provide clinical supervision and mentoring of dietetic staff and students in collaboration with the community dietitian leads and dietetic service manager
- Be responsible for managing own professional development and participate in the appraisal process in order to deliver evidence based best practice
Professional Advice and Liaison
- Actively participate in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work and liaise with all key stakeholders as appropriate e.g. GPs, Non-medical prescribers, Community Matrons, District Nurses, Care Homes staff, Medicines Management and Commissioning teams
- Working closely with the community diabetes specialist nursing team, primary care teams and other professional groups to ensure consistent, appropriate and evidence based dietary advice for the management of diabetes and related co morbidities
- Using negotiation and motivational skills, advise patients, community and health professionals to identify and overcome barriers to make changes with regards to diet and diabetes
Competence to Practice
- Meet the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and maintain professional registration
- Work within the Health and Care Professions Council, British Dietetic Association and local codes of conduct
- Initiate and / or contribute to professional or diabetes nutrition research, evaluation and audit
- Commit to continuing professional development, including the undertaking of mandatory and essential training and collection of evidence of competency to practice
- Complete risk management assessments as required. Comply with policies, procedures and statutory regulations
Management
- Lead in the recruitment and selection of clinical staff within the department.
- Lead with the induction, supervision and individual performance management of clinical and non-clinical staff within the department.
- Undertaking appraisals, one to ones, sickness and authorise expenses for clinical staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
- To act as lead dietitian for the dietetic management of Type 1 & 2 Diabetes and related co-morbidities
- To act as lead dietician providing expertise within the community specialist diabetes nursing team and to other healthcare professionals within Nottingham City in relation to nutrition and diabetes advice.
- To support strategic developments within the community diabetes nursing team and the Nottingham City Diabetes Service
- To maintain, develop and provide education and training on diabetes and related co- morbidities to health care professionals, other relevant professions, students, patients and the public.
Dimensions
- To be the dietetic lead within the integrated community diabetes team providing knowledge and expertise for evidence-based dietary guidelines, practice and education, working within the service as appropriate.
- To work collaboratively and across organisational boundaries to provide evidence-based practice and holistic care to people with diabetes in a variety of settings.
- Support diabetes patients registered with Nottingham City GP Practices, as defined by inclusion criteria for the service.
- To offer a specialist resource to health care professionals working in Nottingham City.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical
- Receiving, interpreting and prioritising relevant referrals from a variety of health and social service professionals for patients with diabetes
- To be an expert source of knowledge, therapeutic dietary advice and treatment recommendations for patients with diabetes and health professionals
- To develop individual patient centred care plans based on nutritional requirements including interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical conditions, medication, diet history, family and social history.
- Provide appropriate dietary counselling, therapeutic, lifestyle advice to patients and carers. This will include domiciliary settings where appropriate
- To undertake patient facing work within various venues across Nottingham city, including joint clinics with other members of the diabetes team e.g. Consultant and Diabetes Specialist Nurse, this may also include domiciliary visits
- To deliver DAFNE structured education programme to the citizens of Nottingham City.
- Attending clinical and multi-disciplinary team meetings as required.
- Maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records. Managing own clinical caseload
- Undertaking data collection e.g. the use of SystmOne and other packages to collect patient data statistics and undertake audit.
- Be competent in the use of Information Technology and its application to Dietetics; using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint effectively, as well as Clinical System Programmes for the accurate review, updates and documentation of patient care plans
- Regularly undertakes performance management data collection and interpretation of the data in accordance with relevant service outcome measures and key performance indicators
Education and Training
- Demonstrate knowledge of national and local guidelines, ensuring the service is fully compliant.
- To support the wider team in implementing the strategic direction for diabetes.
- Keep up to date with current evidence-based diabetes dietary knowledge, dietetic practice and the DAFNE curriculum
- To actively lead on the education and clinical updating of diabetes colleagues and health professionals including dietetic students
- Identifying the need for, developing, delivering and evaluating diabetes patient education programmes for specialist dietary and lifestyle management of people with Type 1 and 2 diabetes. e.g. Desmond, Dafne.
- Delivery will include communicating effectively with patients and carers to ensure understanding of the condition in one-to-one or group education settings.
- Developing, organising and delivering evidence-based training, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials and evaluation. Empowering front line professionals to give dietary and lifestyle modification advice to their patients with diabetes.
- Responding to requests from relevant community groups and patient support groups for dietary education on the prevention and management of diabetes and related co morbidities.
- Support the ongoing professional development of diabetes dietitians/educators and carry out line management
- Provide clinical supervision and mentoring of dietetic staff and students in collaboration with the community dietitian leads and dietetic service manager
- Be responsible for managing own professional development and participate in the appraisal process in order to deliver evidence based best practice
Professional Advice and Liaison
- Actively participate in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work and liaise with all key stakeholders as appropriate e.g. GPs, Non-medical prescribers, Community Matrons, District Nurses, Care Homes staff, Medicines Management and Commissioning teams
- Working closely with the community diabetes specialist nursing team, primary care teams and other professional groups to ensure consistent, appropriate and evidence based dietary advice for the management of diabetes and related co morbidities
- Using negotiation and motivational skills, advise patients, community and health professionals to identify and overcome barriers to make changes with regards to diet and diabetes
Competence to Practice
- Meet the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and maintain professional registration
- Work within the Health and Care Professions Council, British Dietetic Association and local codes of conduct
- Initiate and / or contribute to professional or diabetes nutrition research, evaluation and audit
- Commit to continuing professional development, including the undertaking of mandatory and essential training and collection of evidence of competency to practice
- Complete risk management assessments as required. Comply with policies, procedures and statutory regulations
Management
- Lead in the recruitment and selection of clinical staff within the department.
- Lead with the induction, supervision and individual performance management of clinical and non-clinical staff within the department.
- Undertaking appraisals, one to ones, sickness and authorise expenses for clinical staff.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Advanced knowledge and expertise in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and related co-morbidities acquired through in-depth experience and/ accredited post graduate study/formal training
- Experience of advising diabetes patients on dietary advice for oral therapies, injectables and on different insulin regimes
- Experience in planning, delivering, and evaluating education and training programmes to patients, students and a variety of staff groups.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary health care setting
- Experience in project development, audit, implementation, and evaluation
Desirable
- Experience of working in specialist diabetes clinics, MDT clinics and knowledge/experience of insulin pumps
- Experience delivering diabetes education e.g. Dafne, Desmond
- Experience of working in primary care, community settings, working in partnership with local authority and other non-NHS agencies
- Published reports and papers
- Research Skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Dietitian (Health and Care Professions Council)
- Degree in Nutrition and/or Dietetics (or equivalent diploma)
- Post graduate teaching certificate or appropriate teaching experience
Desirable
- Postgraduate accredited dietetic courses for diabetes e.g. British Dietetic Association diabetes course
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of national targets and reports relevant to food, and nutrition and other relevant guidelines for diabetes e.g. Nice guidelines
- Knowledge of the nutritional requirements of different population groups, with emphasis on adults with diabetes. Appreciation of health inequalities in relation to food
- Experience in communicating effectively with staff from a variety of professions on a one to one or group basis; able to do presentations to large groups.
- Experience in communicating complex information in an understandable form to patients and carers on a one to one or group basis.
- Experience of using behavioural change and counselling techniques to promote lifestyle changes with groups and individuals
- Awareness of communication needs of people from differing cultures and with differing physical and learning abilities.
- Experience in leadership and management of clinical staff including appraisals, supervision, sickness
- Ability to react sensitively and professionally to unforeseen clinical and non-clinical situations.
- Ability to manage own work diary/caseload as part of a team using effective time management skills in order to meet deadlines
- Demonstration of commitment to professional and personal development
- Confident, self-motivated and adaptable
- Ability to reflect and appraise own and peer performance
- Accurate keyboard and IT skills for record keeping, data inputting, word processing, internet access and dietary analysis
Desirable
- Advanced counselling skills
- Motivational interviewing skills
- Clinical Supervisory Skills course
- Experience working with Clinical systems i.e., SystmOne
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service.
- Full driving licence and the ability to travel between locations
- Will be required to transport, set up and use appropriate equipment e.g., display stands, flip chart stands, PowerPoint projectors, IT equipment, nutritional aids/resources, anthropometric equipment
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Advanced knowledge and expertise in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and related co-morbidities acquired through in-depth experience and/ accredited post graduate study/formal training
- Experience of advising diabetes patients on dietary advice for oral therapies, injectables and on different insulin regimes
- Experience in planning, delivering, and evaluating education and training programmes to patients, students and a variety of staff groups.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary health care setting
- Experience in project development, audit, implementation, and evaluation
Desirable
- Experience of working in specialist diabetes clinics, MDT clinics and knowledge/experience of insulin pumps
- Experience delivering diabetes education e.g. Dafne, Desmond
- Experience of working in primary care, community settings, working in partnership with local authority and other non-NHS agencies
- Published reports and papers
- Research Skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Dietitian (Health and Care Professions Council)
- Degree in Nutrition and/or Dietetics (or equivalent diploma)
- Post graduate teaching certificate or appropriate teaching experience
Desirable
- Postgraduate accredited dietetic courses for diabetes e.g. British Dietetic Association diabetes course
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of national targets and reports relevant to food, and nutrition and other relevant guidelines for diabetes e.g. Nice guidelines
- Knowledge of the nutritional requirements of different population groups, with emphasis on adults with diabetes. Appreciation of health inequalities in relation to food
- Experience in communicating effectively with staff from a variety of professions on a one to one or group basis; able to do presentations to large groups.
- Experience in communicating complex information in an understandable form to patients and carers on a one to one or group basis.
- Experience of using behavioural change and counselling techniques to promote lifestyle changes with groups and individuals
- Awareness of communication needs of people from differing cultures and with differing physical and learning abilities.
- Experience in leadership and management of clinical staff including appraisals, supervision, sickness
- Ability to react sensitively and professionally to unforeseen clinical and non-clinical situations.
- Ability to manage own work diary/caseload as part of a team using effective time management skills in order to meet deadlines
- Demonstration of commitment to professional and personal development
- Confident, self-motivated and adaptable
- Ability to reflect and appraise own and peer performance
- Accurate keyboard and IT skills for record keeping, data inputting, word processing, internet access and dietary analysis
Desirable
- Advanced counselling skills
- Motivational interviewing skills
- Clinical Supervisory Skills course
- Experience working with Clinical systems i.e., SystmOne
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service.
- Full driving licence and the ability to travel between locations
- Will be required to transport, set up and use appropriate equipment e.g., display stands, flip chart stands, PowerPoint projectors, IT equipment, nutritional aids/resources, anthropometric equipment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
