Job summary
We are excited to be offering an inspiring role to join our team of Community Dietitians, Assistant Practitioners and administration staff working within our community services division.
This post is based within the Community Services Division with the main area of work being Longmoor House Reablement Service.
The post will also include follow up of the patients into the community setting. Enabling the post holder to support the patients with their transition home.
Longmoor House has 69 beds and replaces the Intermediate Care service provided on Ward 35 at LUHFT's Aintree University Hospital site.
The facility includes Activities of Daily Living (ADL) kitchens, activity spaces as well as a range of single and dual occupancy rooms. It serves patients needing ongoing nursing, therapy, and reablement needs, working towards collaborative goals to support timely discharge.
The service provides step down capacity from acute trusts for medically stable and optimised patients, whose care and assessment can be continued in a non-acute setting until they are ready to go home. It will also be open to patients needing step up care from community settings that require reablement or convalescence where alternative out of hospital home care has been exhausted.
You will manage a diverse clinical caseload incorporating nutritional support, frailty, chronic diseases, oncology, neurology, and gastrointestinal disorders.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist dietetic assessment, diagnosis, and treatment programmes to individual patients with complex needs.
Work with key members of multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide, advice, support, and care plans to patients to support their reablement and return home.
Provide training, education, and specialist advice to qualified and nonqualified health care professionals in all areas of the specialised field.
Have an awareness of and implement clinical practice utilising the direction provided by National Service frameworks; NICE, Clinical Governance and DoH guidelines to ensure high quality evidence based best practice. To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision. Ensure the delivery of the quality carewithin the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
The post holder will be supported clinically by the South Sefton Dietetics team and will be able to engage in supervision, CPD and reflective practice with Dietetics and the Longmoor House MDT.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload.
Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.
Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence-based practice.
Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
Provide advice to patients, clients, and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.
Ensure that the team provides a high-quality clinical service to its clients byparticipation in caseload and clinical supervision.
In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate.
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.
Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.
Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.
Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of duties and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload.
Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.
Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence-based practice.
Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
Provide advice to patients, clients, and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.
Ensure that the team provides a high-quality clinical service to its clients byparticipation in caseload and clinical supervision.
In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate.
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.
Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.
Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.
Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Risk assessment skills
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
- Self-management and motivation skills
- IT literate
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
- Understanding of partnership working
- Understanding of the principles of care management
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
- Work based experience
Desirable
- Management and clinical leadership experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Professional.
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Risk assessment skills
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
- Self-management and motivation skills
- IT literate
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
- Understanding of partnership working
- Understanding of the principles of care management
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
- Work based experience
Desirable
- Management and clinical leadership experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Professional.
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
