Job summary
Essex Learning Disability Partnershipare looking for a highly specialist Dietitian with a passion for delivering the highest standard of care for individuals that have a learning disability.
You will be working as aspecialist Dietitian within our Community Learning Disability Team based at either Tekhnicon House in Braintree or Kao Park in Harlow.
Our Community Learning Disability Teams provide person centered 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 Essex, by working in a simple, person-centered way that empowers individuals to maximise their potential.
Main duties of the job
Managing a caseload, using evidence-based person-centered principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in clinic and community settings
Providing dietetic assessment and treatment to service users who present with nutritional concerns
Working in an interdisciplinary way to assess service user's needs, devising care plans, and evaluating outcomes.
Provide support and education to service users, carers, and members of the multidisciplinary team regarding nutrition and hydration.
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
To assess, diagnose and develop treatment plans for service users within the ELDP presenting with nutritional needs, including those with: profound learning disabilities, additional sensory and/or physical disability, mental health diagnosis and/or challenging behaviour.
To select and apply dietetic assessments for a designated caseload, addressing nutritional and/or dysphagia needs
To be responsible for assessment, differential diagnosis, formulation of treatment plans, writing assessment reports, providing appropriate intervention, evaluating the treatment outcome and reviewing and discharging individual service users
To be responsible for managing a defined caseload, in the context of the service caseload, with ongoing evaluation of clinical effectiveness
To work with and be available to other Dietitians, SLTs, other professionals and generic technicians for support and joint consultation regarding clinical practice as required
To be an autonomous practitioner
To work with service users and carers to identify nutritional requirements as part of the overall care plan
To plan and implement individual interventions, in collaboration with the service user and carer
To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions with service users to ensure effectiveness of intervention and positive outcomes
To have knowledge and understanding of the application of alternative and augmentative communication
To have the skills needed to facilitate group work with service users
To undertake risk assessments and manage clinical / organisational risk
For a more detailed Job and Person Specification please read the attached before applying
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assess, diagnose and develop treatment plans for service users within the ELDP presenting with nutritional needs, including those with: profound learning disabilities, additional sensory and/or physical disability, mental health diagnosis and/or challenging behaviour.
To select and apply dietetic assessments for a designated caseload, addressing nutritional and/or dysphagia needs
To be responsible for assessment, differential diagnosis, formulation of treatment plans, writing assessment reports, providing appropriate intervention, evaluating the treatment outcome and reviewing and discharging individual service users
To be responsible for managing a defined caseload, in the context of the service caseload, with ongoing evaluation of clinical effectiveness
To work with and be available to other Dietitians, SLTs, other professionals and generic technicians for support and joint consultation regarding clinical practice as required
To be an autonomous practitioner
To work with service users and carers to identify nutritional requirements as part of the overall care plan
To plan and implement individual interventions, in collaboration with the service user and carer
To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions with service users to ensure effectiveness of intervention and positive outcomes
To have knowledge and understanding of the application of alternative and augmentative communication
To have the skills needed to facilitate group work with service users
To undertake risk assessments and manage clinical / organisational risk
For a more detailed Job and Person Specification please read the attached before applying
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics degree or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Relevant post graduate training or evidence of significant experience in a relevant specialist area
- Registration with HCPC
- Member of British Dietetic Association
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and application of dietetic assessments and interventions, alongside an understanding of dietetic outcome measures
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in dietetics and learning disabilities
- Extensive clinical experience and ability to demonstrate application of advanced clinical skills
- Experience of delivering care to service users living within the community and in-patient settings, including applied knowledge of risk assessment and management
- Ability to facilitate clinician, assistant and student development through effective supervision
- Planning and coordination of treatment packages
- Leadership and first line management experience
- Participation in research projects and audit
- Experience of leading quality improvement activities
- Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
- Good understanding of relevant national strategy, guidance and key standards, and their application in practice
- Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and their application in practice.
- Safeguarding and its application in practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics degree or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Relevant post graduate training or evidence of significant experience in a relevant specialist area
- Registration with HCPC
- Member of British Dietetic Association
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and application of dietetic assessments and interventions, alongside an understanding of dietetic outcome measures
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in dietetics and learning disabilities
- Extensive clinical experience and ability to demonstrate application of advanced clinical skills
- Experience of delivering care to service users living within the community and in-patient settings, including applied knowledge of risk assessment and management
- Ability to facilitate clinician, assistant and student development through effective supervision
- Planning and coordination of treatment packages
- Leadership and first line management experience
- Participation in research projects and audit
- Experience of leading quality improvement activities
- Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
- Good understanding of relevant national strategy, guidance and key standards, and their application in practice
- Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and their application in practice.
- Safeguarding and its application in practice.
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).
