Advanced Specialist Clinical Lead Dietitian

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work autonomously to organise, provide and manage all adult patients diagnosed with an eating disorder receiving multi-disciplinary team care while an inpatient (Kinver Centre).

This will involve: Comprehensive assessment and provision of individual or group dietary advice/treatment and on-going support to patients and/or carers according to medical history, clinical condition/diagnosis/risk, anthropometry, biochemistry, relevant medication, social circumstances, motivation and nutritional intake etc.

Routine use of a range of anthropometric techniques. Using analytical skills to understand and interpret complex clinical cases (for details see the Decision Making section of the job description).

Collaborative working including negotiation, motivational interviewing and counselling CBT-based approach with wide ranging and complex needs to support compliance with dietetic intervention and advice. This may involve translating highly complex information into a format that is appropriate and understandable for patients/carers and, as appropriate, health professionals.

Organising prescriptions of enteral feeds / oral nutritional supplements.

Providing a Care Programme Approach as part of the multi-disciplinary team, dietetic expertise at multi-disciplinary team meetings, ward reviews and case conferences.

Develop informative reports to the MDT (to inform internal CPA documents/discharge summaries) or external agencies as required.

Advising on appropriate equipment.

Referral of patients to other health care professionals or specialists.

Leading and facilitating of carers groups as well as the development of educational resources for carers.

Continue to build positive partnerships with our acute physical health providers by travelling to District General Hospitals to provide training or support transfer of our high medical risk patients.

Recording all interventions in accordance with Team and organisational policies.

Being professionally, legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work (including prioritising highest risk cases/inpatients). Identifying risk and reporting incidents as appropriate.

Working effectively as part of an Eating Disorders Dietetic Team and wider Eating Disorders multi-disciplinary team.

To provide an extended role in the area of eating disorders (adults) supported by recognised training and competency assessment, which may include training to use the enteral feeding pump at a competency level to train / assess others.

To have a wide and accurate knowledge of prescribable oral nutritional supplements, enteral (including specialist) feeds, enteral feeding pumps and ancillaries. And have a willingness to train to offer supplementary prescribing.

To establish and maintain close working relationships with the wider Eating Disorders multi-disciplinary team.

To provide dietetic expertise on all aspects of eating disorders (adults).

To review and interpret evidence-based research and national guidance/policy (including NICE guidelines, RCP guidance - MEED) implementing these in clinical practice and developing others.

To regularly review all dietary and multi-disciplinary education resources.

To actively seek additional funding through a variety of bidding processes (internal and external) and subsequent project management of successful bids.

To develop and audit standards of practice for dietetic services. This will include developing and implementing relevant care pathways.

To evaluate the effectiveness of dietetic and multi-disciplinary services to participate in the development and collection of outcome measures (and other quality indicators)

To initiate, plan and deliver specialist on-going training and education programmes.

To develop and maintain contacts with local, regional and national clinical specialist interest groups (e.g. Specialist Groups of the British Dietetic Association, links with SATH hospital teams, etc).

To use a wide range of software packages (including dietary analysis package Nutritics, RIO, PowerPoint etc.)

To identify opportunities for service development and improvement.

To contribute to the annual business planning process including setting and achieving objectives.

To provide written and verbal reports. To contribute and/or lead projects.

Management duties, e.g.: recruitment/selection, budget, authorisation and monitoring of absence of team members, clinical supervision and peer review. Support in personal objective setting. development plan (including maintenance of personal professional portfolio).*Please see the attached Job description/Person specification for further details.*

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
• Registration with HCPC
• Leadership qualification or training
• Current pre-registration student training
• Post graduate training in mental health/eating disorders
• Post Graduate BDA studies in accredited courses in dietetics

Desirable

• Training in area of specialism or therapy skills (e.g. within Eating Disorders, Mental Health, CBT or Counselling skills such as Motivational Interviewing / Behaviour Change)
• Attendance at relevant Special Interest Groups Meetings (e.g. Mental Health Group)

Experience

Essential

• Experience/interest in working with eating disorders
• Experience of assessment and management of specialist dietetic interventions in a range of conditions in hospital and outpatient settings working at an advanced level
• Extensive post graduate experience of working in dietetic mental health and managing eating disorder risks such as malnutrition and re-feeding syndrome.
• Experience of managing complex clinical caseloads, prioritise and manage time effectively.
• Experience of working with service users, families, and carers in managing their clinical conditions through dietetic expert advice and interventions
• Experience of working effectively and positively in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of negotiation and conflict management and in clinical situations
• Experience of public speaking and of presenting to a wide range of audiences
• Extensive experience of leading, developing and supervising others
• Experience of participating in clinical audit and project management as part of service development
• Experience of research and development connected to area of expertise

Desirable

• Experience of working in a leadership role
• Experience of being involved in a research project
• Experience of leading a continuous quality improvement initiative

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kinver Ward

St George's Hospital

Stafford

ST16 3AG

Employer's website

https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)