Bank Outpatient / Inpatient Services Dietitian, Band 6

Job description

Job responsibilities

Leadership and Management

To provide clinical supervision and support to staff in the nutrition & dietetic service, including students as required.

To support the Acute Team leads & fellow dietitians and management team in service planning, review, and evaluation to ensure a modern and clinically effective dietetic Acute service.

To support audits and service risk assessments as required.

To assist in recruitment to dietetic posts within the nutrition and dietetic service, particularly in Acute, including induction of new personnel as required.

To ensure activity, quality, audit, and other measures of performance are collected and reported to line manager, departmental service leads and any relevant clinical teams as appropriate.

Attend and contribute regularly to local and regional networking groups regarding the care of patients with Acute conditions

To attend and actively contribute to the nutrition & dietetic department and quality meetings

To actively contribute to the Acute dietetic teams compliance with the Trust and directorate policies, including health and safety and departmental policies. Identifying areas for development and review such as standards of nutritional care

Ability to inspire and influence others and support introduction of new ways of delivering care to patients on our surgical wards.

Ability to work effectively within teams

Improving quality & developing practice

As a specialist inpatient dietitian, to provide expert opinion on appropriate practice and support in the development of the service. This includes reviewing current literature and disseminating the findings to other Acute dietitians, MDT ward rounds and nutrition & dietetic management team as required.

To use specialist knowledge and clinical expertise to assess, evaluate and implement a nutrition and dietetic care plan with monitoring, based on a range of treatment options for Acute patients with complex medical, nutritional and psychological needs.

To tailor the advice to the specific needs of individuals by using enhanced communication skills. The nutritional goals will be to optimise clinical outcomes for complex acute inpatients.

To use communication skills to overcome resistance to dietary change so that patients and/or carers are empowered with the knowledge and skills to meet nutritional needs and control symptoms. This includes patients with multifaceted dietary needs and/or with a range of complex social, physical impairments and psychological conditions.

To deliver nutritional education sessions to patients and healthcare staff as required

To act as an independent practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable and take responsibility for all aspects of this complex specialist area.

Through continual professional development, to develop and maintain a high level of evidence-based clinical knowledge in acute nutritional support. by undertaking clinical supervision, training, reflective practice and to evaluate ones own practice against the national & international guidelines/protocols.

Where an evidence base or current guideline does not exist, to inform practice by developing best practice guidelines for the directorate based on scientific literature, clinical experience and judgement and liaison with colleagues nationally.

To maintain clear and accurate patient information in department record cards, electronic record systems, including writing letters to outside medical referrers, in line with department and trust policies. To collect accurate patient information and statistics as per department standards.

To comply with all departmental, team, trust, national and professional policies and guidelines. To assist in the development and implementation of departmental and multi-disciplinary team policies, trust and national guidelines.

To be responsible for maintaining own CPD and competence to practise in line with HCPC guidelines

To actively participate in individual peer review (IPR)

Training and Education

To actively develop and participate in the training of dietitians and MDT in nutritional care for patients with Acute conditions within the organisation and outside.

Participate in the development and revision of an in-house training programme for dietitians

Acting as a role model, supporting clinical supervision with the Acute and wider dietetic team, and support other teams as required, undertaking tutorials, feedback and assessment

To develop and maintain evidence based educational material for patients and staff within the area of surgical dietetics

To keep up to date with developments in relevant research, thinking and resources by attending training courses, personal study, MDT ward rounds, regularly attending national and local conferences and presenting own work if required

Actively engage in BDA research symposiums and contribute to regional and national working groups and networks

To plan sessions and supervise dietetic students within dietetics.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree / Diploma in Dietetics
• Registered with HCPC
• Attendance on relevant accredited courses

Desirable

• Post registration training e.g. Masters level in dietetics
• Member of the British Dietetic Association

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of successful clinical experience in NHS being autonomous practitioner and able to act on own initiative
• Experience of running remote outpatient services
• Experienced within the NHS on all aspects of adult nutrition support, sip feeds and enteral feeds
• Experience of effectively maintaining working relationship within a team
• Experienced in gastroenterology related conditions

Knowledge/ Skills

Essential

• Ability to assess individuals with complex medical problems and to plan their dietetic care
• Prioritisation, planning and organisational and time management skills with ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening, caring and empathy skills and can relate well to staff and patients.
• Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills including active listening skills.
• Able to implement research evidence based practice and apply to practice for continuous 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.

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

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Gloucestershire

GL1 3NN

Employer's website

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