Community Dietitian

Job summary

Specialist Community Dietitian Band 6/Band 5-6 progression

Wokingham Hospital

Part time (18.75hrs)/Full time may be considered.

West Berkshire Community Dietetic Service based in Wokingham has an opportunity to offer a permanent Band 6 role but would consider Band 5 with the correct skills with a view to progressing to a Band 6 role after meeting the required competencies. The post is part time (18.75hrs) although full time hours may be considered.

The post holder will be covering a varied community caseload, including supporting the HEN Clinical Lead with a case load of home enteral nutrition, diabetes education groups as well as patients requiring nutritional support.

We are a mobile working service and offer our patients the choice of face-to-face, virtual and phone appointments. To support this, we have excellent IT access and support staff home-working where appropriate. There is also the flexibility to work from other dietetic bases in West Berkshire including Thatcham and Reading.

As a team we strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. For newly qualified staff, mentoring and a preceptorship programme is provided. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• Working under the guidance of the Team Lead Dietitian, to provide dietetic care to a varied and diverse caseload of patients in the community and community inpatients.
• Providing specialist dietetic treatments e.g. diabetes remission, nutritional support and home enteral nutrition
• Supporting the team with the delivery of Diabetes Education, Xpert, for patients with newly diagnosed diabetes.
• Delivering a proportion of care using online platforms e.g. One Consultation and MS Teams
• Visiting patients in their own home, where appropriate, to offer HEN and nutritional support advice.
• Coaching, delegating work and supporting Dietetic Assistant Practitioners (DAPs) and involvement in student training programme.
• Involvement in departmental research activity

The "must haves" for this role:

• A four-year degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and registered with Health Care Professionals Council and full BDA membership
• Ability to demonstrate good experience and knowledge in dietetics including home enteral feeding, diabetes and nutrition support.
• Aptitude for coaching and supervising junior staff including Dietetic Assistant Practitioners.
• Ability to prioritise workload and work flexibly, travelling to multiple sites if required.
• Ability to work from home with access to wifi using equipment provided by BHFT

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust isa specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell leave
• Generous NHS pension scheme - 20.68% employer contribution
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• Advanced IT enablement
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants via the Blue Light Card
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and more to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave and access to our three staff nurseries
• Free parking