Job summary
Essex Learning Disability Partnership are looking for a Registered Dietitianwith a passion for delivering the highest standard of care for individuals that have a learning disability.
You will be working as a Dietitian within The Essex Community Learning Disability Team, based at either Tekhnicon House, Braintree or Kao Park Harlow.
The Essex Community Learning Disability Team provide person centred and holistic assessment and care for adults with a learning disability living in the community. The multidisciplinary team works with individuals that live independently in the community, with family/carers, and those that reside in supported living schemes or 24 hour residential placements. The service is committed to improving the health and well-being of people with a learning disability across North-East, Mid & West Essex, by working in a simple, person-centred way that empowers individuals to maximise their potential.
Main duties of the job
The Role
- Work in an interdisciplinary way to assess service user's needs, devise care plans and evaluate outcomes.
- Provide clinical advice and support for service users that present with behaviour that challenges and require support with their mental health.
- Work directly with service users, carers, colleagues, and other service providers.
- Support people to remain in the community and avoid preventable hospital admissions through rapid response, focused assessment, intervention, and support
- Facilitate and support safe discharge from hospital back into the community
- Deliver training and education to other professionals/carers/family.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on..."
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Requirements
- Professional Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and The British Dietetic Association(BDA)
- Compassion, resilience and a dedication to empower and support service user independence
- Be able to communicate effectively, using a variety of methods, with service users, other members of the MDT, carers/family and other agencies involved in the service users care.
- An ability to maintain high standards of record keeping.
- A good understanding of legislation and national guidance relating to the care and support of people with learning disability.
We welcome applicants looking to return to AHP Profession following a career break.
HPFT has an excellent history of supporting colleagues to return to practice following a period out of the profession. Candidates looking to regain their HCPC registration will benefit from a well-established support programme across HPFT and the local system. Please do not hesitate to contact Appointing Manager to discuss this in more detail.
The Benefits
- NHS and Employee Discounts
- Excellent NHS Pension Scheme
- Flexible Working Opportunities
- 35 days Annual Leave and Public Holiday Entitlement, Increasing to 37 Days After 5 Years of Service, and 41 Days After 10 Years' Service
- Car Lease Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Eye Test Vouchers
- Various Staff Wellbeing Programmes
- Free Parking
- Varied Career Pathway Options
- Excellent Training Opportunities
- Paid DBS application
Essex Learning Disability Partnership is an innovative collaboration between Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust & Essex Partnership University Trust that provides the following services across Essex:
- Mid-West Essex Community Learning Disability Services
- North East Essex Community Learning Disability Services
- South Essex Community Learning Disability Services
- Lexden Hospital, Colchester Assessment & Treatment Unit for Adults with a Learning Disability
- Byron Court, Billericay Assessment & Treatment Unit for Adults with a Learning Disability
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Requirements
- Professional Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and The British Dietetic Association(BDA)
- Compassion, resilience and a dedication to empower and support service user independence
- Be able to communicate effectively, using a variety of methods, with service users, other members of the MDT, carers/family and other agencies involved in the service users care.
- An ability to maintain high standards of record keeping.
- A good understanding of legislation and national guidance relating to the care and support of people with learning disability.
We welcome applicants looking to return to AHP Profession following a career break.
HPFT has an excellent history of supporting colleagues to return to practice following a period out of the profession. Candidates looking to regain their HCPC registration will benefit from a well-established support programme across HPFT and the local system. Please do not hesitate to contact Appointing Manager to discuss this in more detail.
The Benefits
- NHS and Employee Discounts
- Excellent NHS Pension Scheme
- Flexible Working Opportunities
- 35 days Annual Leave and Public Holiday Entitlement, Increasing to 37 Days After 5 Years of Service, and 41 Days After 10 Years' Service
- Car Lease Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Eye Test Vouchers
- Various Staff Wellbeing Programmes
- Free Parking
- Varied Career Pathway Options
- Excellent Training Opportunities
- Paid DBS application
Essex Learning Disability Partnership is an innovative collaboration between Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust & Essex Partnership University Trust that provides the following services across Essex:
- Mid-West Essex Community Learning Disability Services
- North East Essex Community Learning Disability Services
- South Essex Community Learning Disability Services
- Lexden Hospital, Colchester Assessment & Treatment Unit for Adults with a Learning Disability
- Byron Court, Billericay Assessment & Treatment Unit for Adults with a Learning Disability
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics degree or equivalent
- Registered with the Health Care Professions Council
- Member of British Dietetic Association
Desirable
- Attained or working towards a postgraduate qualification or evidence of significant experience in a specialist area
- Experience of working with adults with learning disabilities
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and application of dietetic assessments and interventions
- Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting
- Broad base of clinical experience and ability to demonstrate application of clinical skills
- Experience of supervising junior staff and students
- Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary health care setting
Desirable
- Experience of delivering care to service users with dysphagia living in the community including home enteral feeding
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics degree or equivalent
- Registered with the Health Care Professions Council
- Member of British Dietetic Association
Desirable
- Attained or working towards a postgraduate qualification or evidence of significant experience in a specialist area
- Experience of working with adults with learning disabilities
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and application of dietetic assessments and interventions
- Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting
- Broad base of clinical experience and ability to demonstrate application of clinical skills
- Experience of supervising junior staff and students
- Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary health care setting
Desirable
- Experience of delivering care to service users with dysphagia living in the community including home enteral feeding
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).
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).
