Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic Dietitian to join our friendly ,caring and forward thinking team of 10 Community Dietitians (adult and paediatric), 1 Assistant Practitioner and 4 Dietetic Assistants. The role is based at Whiston Primary Care Resource Centre and you would part of the Community Care Division providing a dietetic service to the population of Knowsley and St Helens.
We welcome applications from motivated, enthusiastic, newly qualified or experienced Band 5 Dietitians as well as Dietetic students. Flexible working will be considered.
Main duties of the job
This post holder will provide nutritional care within a variety of settings including outpatient clinics, care homes and patients own homes. You will manage a diverse clinical caseload incorporating nutritional support, frailty, chronic diseases, oncology, neurology, and gastrointestinal disorders. This post will provide excellent experience in community dietetics with the opportunity to gain further knowledge in the areas of home enteral feeding and paediatrics .
You will be fully supported by your clinical supervisors with regular supervision sessions as well as joining the Trust's AHP Preceptorship programme .We also have a well-established student training programme which you will be actively involved in to develop your clinical supervisory skills.
Professional development is given a high priority within the department with CPD fully encouraged and supported by the Trust.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.
- Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients.
- Identify, and manage as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over the counter medication.
- Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
- Promote and deliver evidenced based care.
- Assist senior practitioners as required.
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways of communicating.
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues viewpoints to others.
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the relevant professional body.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
- Deliver care according to national and local guidelines, working in partnership with other clinical teams/departments.
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
- Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating quality implementing improvements where required.
- Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
- Support and participate in shared learning across the wider organisation.
- Utilising a structured framework (e.g. root cause analysis) participate in the management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near miss events.
- Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate.
- Act as a positive role model takes responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision.
- Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment encouraging everyone to reach their potential, learn from each other and from external good practice.
- Understand own responsibilities and accountability in the delivery of care to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority.
- Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
- Work with other professionals to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill mix is available to meet the needs of patients.
- Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
- Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant to own practice.
- Keep up to date with new developments locally and nationally identifying those that will enhance the teams work.
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training.
- Act as a mentor to students assessing competency against set standards as requested if appropriately qualified.
- Accept and delegate tasks appropriately.
- The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
Please contact us if you would like any additional information or to arrange an informal visit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.
- Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients.
- Identify, and manage as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed or over the counter medication.
- Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
- Promote and deliver evidenced based care.
- Assist senior practitioners as required.
- Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways of communicating.
- Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues viewpoints to others.
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the relevant professional body.
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
- Deliver care according to national and local guidelines, working in partnership with other clinical teams/departments.
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
- Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating quality implementing improvements where required.
- Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
- Support and participate in shared learning across the wider organisation.
- Utilising a structured framework (e.g. root cause analysis) participate in the management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near miss events.
- Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate.
- Act as a positive role model takes responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision.
- Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment encouraging everyone to reach their potential, learn from each other and from external good practice.
- Understand own responsibilities and accountability in the delivery of care to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority.
- Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
- Work with other professionals to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill mix is available to meet the needs of patients.
- Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
- Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant to own practice.
- Keep up to date with new developments locally and nationally identifying those that will enhance the teams work.
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training.
- Act as a mentor to students assessing competency against set standards as requested if appropriately qualified.
- Accept and delegate tasks appropriately.
- The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
Please contact us if you would like any additional information or to arrange an informal visit.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Mentor/teaching qualification, or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience.
Knowledge/Experience
Desirable
- Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field
- Clinical supervision experience.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies
- Understanding of audit process.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- IT literate
- Work as member of a team.
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
Desirable
- Understanding of local and national quality initiatives.
Functional skill
Essential
- Full driving license for Community working
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Mentor/teaching qualification, or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience.
Knowledge/Experience
Desirable
- Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field
- Clinical supervision experience.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies
- Understanding of audit process.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- IT literate
- Work as member of a team.
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
Desirable
- Understanding of local and national quality initiatives.
Functional skill
Essential
- Full driving license for Community working
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).
