Dietician - CAMHS (fixed term or secondment opportunity)

Job responsibilities

Service Delivery

• To provide dietetic assessment, and treatment programmes to individual patients within the eating disorder pathway, including offering mealtime support in patients homes if required.
• To be knowledgeable in diagnostic categories of a range of eating disorders and have an understanding of psychological treatment approaches in line with NICE Guidance.
• To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision.Comply with Professional Codes of Conduct and HCPC
• To provide a high level of care to patients with dietetic and nutritional requirements including ARFID, autism and other.
• Toprovide advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, patients, carers, relatives or other non-professional contacts.
• To take appropriate action when working with vulnerable CYP following guidelines and Trust procedures, liaising with appropriate agencies as required.
• Maintain and contribute to the standards of professional care, ethics, policies and procedures.
• To accurately record all patient intervention and plans in the medical notes.
• Implement standardised dietetic audit.
• Attend regularindividualand group supervision.
• The post holder will be expected to draw upon experience and knowledge gained through training and practice relating to child development.
• The practitioner will demonstrate effective skills in the assessment and reassessment of risk and communicate concerns accurately in a timely fashion.This is inclusive of priority assessments and requires multi-agency responses to risk assessment and risk management plans.
• The Practitioners will work with families in their homes, education, and health and community settings and at base as appropriate/required by children/young people and their families.
• The Practitioner will strongly adhere to culturally competent and anti-discriminatory practice, promote equity of opportunity and use their professional position to empower others and challenge power imbalances where they are found to exist.
• The Practitioner will develop excellent and effective communication skills, applicable to working both with young people, their families and professional systems. Acting as a point of liaison between specialist CAMHS and other services to ensure improved communication and collaboration via a range of different interfaces, forums and meetings e.g. presenting at meetings within Plymouth.
• Contribute to the development of team protocols and clinical practice, proposing changes for discussion. Maintain good activity records and input them onto the electronic recording system in a timely manner.
• To support the use of advanced skills and clinical and biochemical knowledge to diagnose malnutrition and mineral and electrolyte abnormalities which require dietetic intervention and to independently provide and support the implementation of a nutritional care plan.
• To undertake ED duty responsibilities and be allocated care coordinate for CYP.
• Be available for and make use of clinical supervision, child protection supervision and operational line management.
• The post holder will need to organise their own workload under the support and supervision of a Clinical Pathway Manager.
• Maintain health records to the standards required by Livewell Southwest.
• Contribute to a strong team ethos of enquiry, development and improvement.
• Keep up to date with CAMHS & Eating Disorders developments taking place nationally in line with service objectives.
• To be aware of and familiar with Livewell Southwest policy and procedure and operate within that e.g. lone working policy.
• To measure and make available clinical outcome measures within an agreed system. This is most likely to be the CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium.

Management of Resources

• Make best use of time in arranging working pattern efficiently.
• Make good use of resources and facilities.

Workforce and Management of People

• Participate in the training of other colleagues and students in areas of own expertise.
• Participate in the promotion of the team by participating in training and information giving events.

Corporate and Other Responsibilities

• To undertake other duties in a corporate role as may be reasonably expected in accordance with the grade of the post and in line with other Senior Practitioners to ensure the attainment of team and service objectives.

• To attend continued professional development meeting facilitated by the Senior Clinical Team on a monthly basis.

• To ensure that all duties within the role are delivered in accordance with Livewell Southwest policy and procedure and professional registration practice.

• This job description is indicative of the range of responsibilities of the post holder. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties and will be subject to review.

Qualifications

Essential

• Bsc degree in nutrition and dietetics or post graduate diploma in dietetics
• HCPC registered Dietitian

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within eating disorders and their treatment
• Comprehensive, in depth knowledge and understanding of clinical nutrition and dietetics and evidence of the dietetic management of a wide range of clinical conditions including eating disorders

Desirable

• Knowledge of motivational interviewing

Experience

Essential

• Experience in working with eating disorders and/or paediatric setting.
• Experience of working in a multi-agency and/or multi-disciplinary context.
• Experience in assessment of nutritional needs, (inc risk of re-feeding syndrome), care planning, intervention and evaluation.
• Maintaining own safety in Community settings by working within relevant policy and having completed or be willing to complete breakaway training or equivalent.

Desirable

• Experience of effective working with families of different cultural backgrounds.
• Experience of working within multi-agency safeguarding systems e.g. child protection conferences, child in need meetings

Skills

Essential

• Good organisational skills with ability to prioritise.
• Well developed communication skills both oral and written
• Commitment to own learning and professional development.
• Reflective Practitioner

Desirable

• Consultation skills.
• Experience of delivering training to a range of staff/ service user groups

Circumstances

Essential

• Ability to travel across Plymouth.
• Ability to work flexibly (hours of work and duties) both as an individual and with other colleagues in PCH and with partner agencies.
• Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments where required.

Desirable

• Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job. It is unlikely that public transport will meet this requirement.
• Adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).