Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Registered Dietitian to join our Physical Healthcare Service based at Rampton Hospital. The successful candidate will be an integral member of the service consisting of a Senior Specialist Dietitian and a wide range of MDT members supported by a wider dietetic team including a Professional Lead, Specialist and Food Services Lead Dietitians.
While based at Rampton Hospital the post holder will travel across sites to support patients in the other three lower security hospitals within the Trust.
This post attracts a High Secure allowance of £4012 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Enthusiasm and a keen interest in mental health is vital. You will be working with adults with complex mental health and nutritional issues, requiring skilled nutritional assessment and advice. You'll gain knowledge and experience in a diverse range of conditions such as gastrointestinal dysfunction, diabetes, stoma management and food and fluid refusal. Previous clinical experience across a wide range of specialties, including nutrition support, weight management, diabetes, eating disorders and disordered eating are essential. However, if you have passion for this exciting role but are newly qualified, then please do get in contact with us for a discussion as we will support a rotational preceptorship post if needed.
Main duties of the job
To provide an efficient and high quality specialised dietetic service for adults within Nottinghamshire Healthcare Forensic Division, based in Rampton High Secure Hospital.
To act as an educator, expert clinician, and source of support to other healthcare professionals and hospital staff.
To ensure commitment to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working, promoting the specialist role of the Dietitian across Forensic Services.
To enhance patient empowerment towards better self-care, via delivery of individual and group structured patient education programmes.
To meet the requirements of the service level agreements.
About us
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
This role provides a wonderful opportunity to develop clinical and professional skills working as a key member of a highly specialised multidisciplinary team. You will work closely with a team consisting of speech and language therapists, specialist mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, and social workers. You will be encouraged to participate in training, service development and clinical meetings. A flexible attitude, good interpersonal and team working skills are essential along with an excellent knowledge of various nutritional interventions.
The healthcare team operates in a supportive environment with a commitment to personal and professional development .
- Free DBS for all appointees
- Free parking on site at Rampton Hospital
- Well maintained green spaces giving that open plan feel and less oppressive than other places.
- A team committed to good work life balance
- A team committed to CPD opportunities and service development.
- To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of own work, ensuring a high standard of clinical care for the patients/clients under your management.
- Demonstrates ability to carry out assessment, treatment planning and goal orientated intervention for a designated caseload
- Demonstrates the ability to select and use appropriate therapeutic interventions with patients/clients/carers, including group interventions
- Demonstrates ability to set treatment goals and plan future care with patient/client, MDT and where needs carers.
- Demonstrates the ability to deliver structured education courses for patients and evidence their effectiveness
- Demonstrates the ability to evaluate interventions and ensure effective outcomes
- Demonstrates the ability to complete patient/client records in line with Trust and legal requirements
- Takes responsibility for effective discharge planning and safe transfers of care within own caseload.
- Demonstrates ability to initiate and deliver appropriate in-service training programmes for professional colleagues, students and support staff
- Demonstrates the ability to provide clinical teaching, supervision, and appraisal for pre-registration Dietetic students undertaking clinical placements.
- Ensures maintenance of high standards of clinical practice within the Nutrition and Dietetic Service
- Demonstrates ability to support implementation of team objectives within the integrated team
If you are looking for a challenge and opportunities to learn and develop dietetic service within the mental health setting, please do get in contact; we are looking forward to hearing from you
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role provides a wonderful opportunity to develop clinical and professional skills working as a key member of a highly specialised multidisciplinary team. You will work closely with a team consisting of speech and language therapists, specialist mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, and social workers. You will be encouraged to participate in training, service development and clinical meetings. A flexible attitude, good interpersonal and team working skills are essential along with an excellent knowledge of various nutritional interventions.
The healthcare team operates in a supportive environment with a commitment to personal and professional development .
- Free DBS for all appointees
- Free parking on site at Rampton Hospital
- Well maintained green spaces giving that open plan feel and less oppressive than other places.
- A team committed to good work life balance
- A team committed to CPD opportunities and service development.
- To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of own work, ensuring a high standard of clinical care for the patients/clients under your management.
- Demonstrates ability to carry out assessment, treatment planning and goal orientated intervention for a designated caseload
- Demonstrates the ability to select and use appropriate therapeutic interventions with patients/clients/carers, including group interventions
- Demonstrates ability to set treatment goals and plan future care with patient/client, MDT and where needs carers.
- Demonstrates the ability to deliver structured education courses for patients and evidence their effectiveness
- Demonstrates the ability to evaluate interventions and ensure effective outcomes
- Demonstrates the ability to complete patient/client records in line with Trust and legal requirements
- Takes responsibility for effective discharge planning and safe transfers of care within own caseload.
- Demonstrates ability to initiate and deliver appropriate in-service training programmes for professional colleagues, students and support staff
- Demonstrates the ability to provide clinical teaching, supervision, and appraisal for pre-registration Dietetic students undertaking clinical placements.
- Ensures maintenance of high standards of clinical practice within the Nutrition and Dietetic Service
- Demonstrates ability to support implementation of team objectives within the integrated team
If you are looking for a challenge and opportunities to learn and develop dietetic service within the mental health setting, please do get in contact; we are looking forward to hearing from you
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
- Be a Key holder at Rampton hospital.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification leading to HCPC Registered or pending registration for final year dietetic students.
Desirable
- Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD
- Membership of the British Dietetic Association (BDA)
Physical Criteria
Essential
- Has the physical ability to perform the full range of duties
- Able to undertake training in physical intervention including Prevention, managing violence and aggression and moving and handling of patients.
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of undergraduate or postgraduate clinical experience.
- Experience of delivering patient/staff education
- Experience of working in an MDT and ability to discuss management plans
Desirable
- Experience of working in mental health and acute environments
- Experience of working with patients relevant to the specialist areas within forensics
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good communication skills in liaising with patients, colleagues, staff, and external professionals.
- Good reasoning skills
- Motivated
- Team builder and team member
- Reflective practitioner
- Ability to manage own well-being with access to supervision to sustain this.
Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical knowledge of dietetic area of work including the use of different approaches and multi-disciplinary working, across different contexts and environments.
- Knowledge of relevant national policies and procedures relevant to patients with nutritional needs in a forensic setting.
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
- Be a Key holder at Rampton hospital.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification leading to HCPC Registered or pending registration for final year dietetic students.
Desirable
- Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD
- Membership of the British Dietetic Association (BDA)
Physical Criteria
Essential
- Has the physical ability to perform the full range of duties
- Able to undertake training in physical intervention including Prevention, managing violence and aggression and moving and handling of patients.
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of undergraduate or postgraduate clinical experience.
- Experience of delivering patient/staff education
- Experience of working in an MDT and ability to discuss management plans
Desirable
- Experience of working in mental health and acute environments
- Experience of working with patients relevant to the specialist areas within forensics
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good communication skills in liaising with patients, colleagues, staff, and external professionals.
- Good reasoning skills
- Motivated
- Team builder and team member
- Reflective practitioner
- Ability to manage own well-being with access to supervision to sustain this.
Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical knowledge of dietetic area of work including the use of different approaches and multi-disciplinary working, across different contexts and environments.
- Knowledge of relevant national policies and procedures relevant to patients with nutritional needs in a forensic setting.
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.
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).
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.
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).
