Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Specialist Stroke Dietitian

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Job summary

The post involves delivering a dietetic service to inpatients who have had a stroke and you will provide personalised care plans to support recovery and successful rehab. You will be a valued team member and work closely with the clinical MDTs, work alongside a range of HCPs and be involved in weekly MDTs. You will work closely with another dietitian who works in stroke care.

Main duties of the job

The role involves:

Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations, multipathologies within hyper acute inpatient settings.
Formulating individual management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescibable enteral feeds and supplements to be used. This includes secondary prevention
Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.
Evaluating patients' progress and measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work
Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans. This will include patients who have difficulty with understanding communication
Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
Managing clinical risk within own caseload.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Date posted

20 November 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

270-TE563-ACS

Job locations

Highfield Clinical Care Centre

Cliftonville Road

Northampton

NN1 5BD

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

knowledge

Essential

good range of clincial experience, including enteral feeding

professional and communication skilsl

Essential

expereince of behaviour change and service improvement

Person Specification

knowledge

Essential

good range of clincial experience, including enteral feeding

professional and communication skilsl

Essential

expereince of behaviour change and service improvement

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.