Job summary
As our Dietitian within Schoen Clinic York, you will provide a specialist dietetic service to inpatients within our Eating Disorder facility and act as a source of expertise on the dietary management of eating disorders to the multidisciplinary team, community health professionals and others involved in the care of our patients.
The role includes working with patients and the multidisciplinary team to identify and address complex psychological and social factors that affect compliance with dietary treatment, and thus facilitating permanent lifestyle changes. This role is crucial to the overall care provided at Schoen Clinic York.
Main duties of the job
Principle Duties
- Undertake comprehensive assessments of individual patients diets and lifestyle to formulate individualised management and treatment plans ensuring optimal outcomes whilst minimising risk. Assessment will include interpretation of anthropometric, biochemical and clinical indicators, weight history and dietary analysis.
- Prescribing replacement plans using supplements and overseeing NG feeding replacement plans.
- Be aware of patients at high psychiatric risk (for example, suicide) and liaise with the multidisciplinary team regarding the management of these patients.
- Communicate effectively with patients. This involves giving advice to patients with emotional, physical and psychological difficulties where acceptance can be challenging and patients can become distressed.
- This will also occasionally involve working in conditions requiring the ability to react sensitively where patients have a history of abuse.
- Provide a motivating force for patients, utilising high quality communication skills this would involve a behavioural therapy approach. Repeated explanation around a topic may be required.
- Communicate with referring agents and other agents as necessary, through personal, written, telephone or email contact.
About us
About Schoen Clinic UK Group
Our culture of world-class medical excellence is based on our five key values:
- Accountable:Taking ownership of the things I say and do
- Caring:Treating others as I would like to be treated
- Collaborative:Working together to make a winning team
- Courageous:Being proud to be different and challenge the norm
- Determined:Seeing things through to meet and exceed expectations
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide specialist advice to patients with eating disorders deemed to be at high risk of medical or physical complications, including re-feeding syndrome.
- Undertake comprehensive assessments of individual patients diets and lifestyle to formulate individualised management and treatment plans ensuring optimal outcomes whilst minimising risk. Assessment will include interpretation of anthropometric, biochemical and clinical indicators, weight history and dietary analysis.
- Prescribing replacement plans using supplements and overseeing NG feeding replacement plans.
- Be aware of patients at high psychiatric risk (for example, suicide) and liaise with the multidisciplinary team regarding the management of these patients.
- Communicate effectively with patients. This involves giving advice to patients with emotional, physical and psychological difficulties where acceptance can be challenging and patients can become distressed.
- This will also occasionally involve working in conditions requiring the ability to react sensitively where patients have a history of abuse.
- Provide a motivating force for patients, utilising high quality communication skills this would involve a behavioural therapy approach. Repeated explanation around a topic may be required.
- Communicate with referring agents and other agents as necessary, through personal, written, telephone or email contact.
- Develop and run group education sessions covering all relevant nutrition topics, to allow patients to use this information in their recovery.
- Work with an awareness of the Eating Disorders guidelines (NICE, MEED) for the treatment of eating disorders, using evidence-based practice and outcome measures to inform service development.
- Work with all disciplines and the catering department to prescribe dietary intake for each patient throughout their admission.
- Provide dietary advice to patients and their families to enable them to manage their leave breaks from the unit, and to accommodate changes made at multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings regarding exercise and dietary intake.
- Attend and contribute to MDT meetings and CPA review meetings, leading discussions about possible changes in diet.
- Develop and continually review the unit menus to reflect current nutrition recommendations, taking into account specific clinical problems that may be encountered such as reduced frequency of bowel opening and subsequent avoidance of pharmacotherapy where possible.
- Demonstrate awareness of safeguarding principles in all dealings with young people and their families.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide specialist advice to patients with eating disorders deemed to be at high risk of medical or physical complications, including re-feeding syndrome.
- Undertake comprehensive assessments of individual patients diets and lifestyle to formulate individualised management and treatment plans ensuring optimal outcomes whilst minimising risk. Assessment will include interpretation of anthropometric, biochemical and clinical indicators, weight history and dietary analysis.
- Prescribing replacement plans using supplements and overseeing NG feeding replacement plans.
- Be aware of patients at high psychiatric risk (for example, suicide) and liaise with the multidisciplinary team regarding the management of these patients.
- Communicate effectively with patients. This involves giving advice to patients with emotional, physical and psychological difficulties where acceptance can be challenging and patients can become distressed.
- This will also occasionally involve working in conditions requiring the ability to react sensitively where patients have a history of abuse.
- Provide a motivating force for patients, utilising high quality communication skills this would involve a behavioural therapy approach. Repeated explanation around a topic may be required.
- Communicate with referring agents and other agents as necessary, through personal, written, telephone or email contact.
- Develop and run group education sessions covering all relevant nutrition topics, to allow patients to use this information in their recovery.
- Work with an awareness of the Eating Disorders guidelines (NICE, MEED) for the treatment of eating disorders, using evidence-based practice and outcome measures to inform service development.
- Work with all disciplines and the catering department to prescribe dietary intake for each patient throughout their admission.
- Provide dietary advice to patients and their families to enable them to manage their leave breaks from the unit, and to accommodate changes made at multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings regarding exercise and dietary intake.
- Attend and contribute to MDT meetings and CPA review meetings, leading discussions about possible changes in diet.
- Develop and continually review the unit menus to reflect current nutrition recommendations, taking into account specific clinical problems that may be encountered such as reduced frequency of bowel opening and subsequent avoidance of pharmacotherapy where possible.
- Demonstrate awareness of safeguarding principles in all dealings with young people and their families.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of current best practice in eating disorders.
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities and relevant legislation.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Ability to give and receive feedback constructively.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Knowledge of equality and diversity issues.
- Experience of effective MDT working.
- Training and teaching skills, including presentation skills.
- Experience of audit and service development.
- Report writing skills.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of current best practice in eating disorders.
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities and relevant legislation.
- Evidence of CPD.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Ability to give and receive feedback constructively.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Knowledge of equality and diversity issues.
- Experience of effective MDT working.
- Training and teaching skills, including presentation skills.
- Experience of audit and service development.
- Report writing skills.
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.
