Job summary
Are you a dietitian looking for a new experience?
We have a unique opportunity to work for the Leeds & West Yorkshire ME/CFS Service and for the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine.
Mental health experience is desirable but not essential as the trust has an established management and clinical support structure including 12-month preceptorship trust wide programme (for all new graduate nurses and AHPs) to address all development needs. We also have regular clinical and management supervision, monthly trust wide dietetic meeting and access to peer support and other development opportunities.
Please note that you can apply for a 2 day a week secondment or permanent position across both the ME/CFS Service and the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine. OR 1 day a week in either service on a secondment or permanent basis. Candidates are asked to specify their preferred option on their application form (see detailed job description and main responsibilities below for more info)
Main duties of the job
To develop, provide and maintain a clinical dietetic service within Liaison Psychiatry services at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Act as a lead source of expertise on dietetics and nutrition for other staff, and service users including the provision of education and training and relevant research.
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the team bankstaffingdepartment.lypft@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Leeds & West Yorkshire Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue (ME/CFS) Service is an outpatient service based at the Newsam Centre. We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietician to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.
Working as part of a collaborative, holistic MDT in this fascinating clinical field, you will have the opportunity to use and develop a wide range of dietetic knowledge and skills in face-to-face and remote consultations. You will support patients experiencing unwanted weight loss and gain, IBS symptoms and food hypersensitivity, and provide healthy eating and supplement advice for fatigue management.
You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.
The National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine is a specialist service that receives referrals from anywhere in the UK for people with Persistent Physical Symptoms/Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Long-Term Conditions. We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietitian to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.
You will be joining a well-established MDT and you will have the opportunity to use a range of dietetic skills with a diverse caseload such as disordered eating; enteral feeding; diabetes; weight management; nutritional support; food intolerance and allergies; IBS; re-feeding syndrome.
You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.
Both services have well established MDTs, and the dietitian will form an integral component to this.
Other responsibilities:
To offer 1:1 treatment to patients under both services ensuring that their dietic needs are assessed and treated.
To demonstrate knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within ME/CFS Services and psychological medicine and implement appropriate treatment interventions/dietary advice.
To plan, coordinate and deliver nutrition/ dietetic training for professional and support staff.
The primary but not exclusive clinical focus for this role will be working with service users requiring dietary advice following nutritional screening.
To undertake an assessment of service users nutritional needs including the calculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition, and other physical and social parameters.
To monitor, evaluate and adjust specialised dietetic treatment to service users.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Leeds & West Yorkshire Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue (ME/CFS) Service is an outpatient service based at the Newsam Centre. We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietician to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.
Working as part of a collaborative, holistic MDT in this fascinating clinical field, you will have the opportunity to use and develop a wide range of dietetic knowledge and skills in face-to-face and remote consultations. You will support patients experiencing unwanted weight loss and gain, IBS symptoms and food hypersensitivity, and provide healthy eating and supplement advice for fatigue management.
You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.
The National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine is a specialist service that receives referrals from anywhere in the UK for people with Persistent Physical Symptoms/Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Long-Term Conditions. We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietitian to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.
You will be joining a well-established MDT and you will have the opportunity to use a range of dietetic skills with a diverse caseload such as disordered eating; enteral feeding; diabetes; weight management; nutritional support; food intolerance and allergies; IBS; re-feeding syndrome.
You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.
Both services have well established MDTs, and the dietitian will form an integral component to this.
Other responsibilities:
To offer 1:1 treatment to patients under both services ensuring that their dietic needs are assessed and treated.
To demonstrate knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within ME/CFS Services and psychological medicine and implement appropriate treatment interventions/dietary advice.
To plan, coordinate and deliver nutrition/ dietetic training for professional and support staff.
The primary but not exclusive clinical focus for this role will be working with service users requiring dietary advice following nutritional screening.
To undertake an assessment of service users nutritional needs including the calculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition, and other physical and social parameters.
To monitor, evaluate and adjust specialised dietetic treatment to service users.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Hons degree in nutrition and dietetics or post graduate diploma in dietetics
- HCPC registered Dietitian
Experience
Essential
- Experience/ interest in working in a mental health and physical health setting
- Knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within ME/CFS Services and mental health
- Experience in at least TWO of the following clinical areas Diabetes Weight management Eating disorders ME/CFS Gastroenterology Food allergies / intolerances Enteral feeding
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Hons degree in nutrition and dietetics or post graduate diploma in dietetics
- HCPC registered Dietitian
Experience
Essential
- Experience/ interest in working in a mental health and physical health setting
- Knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within ME/CFS Services and mental health
- Experience in at least TWO of the following clinical areas Diabetes Weight management Eating disorders ME/CFS Gastroenterology Food allergies / intolerances Enteral feeding
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).
