A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 specialist Dietitian to work across our Mental Health services in Lincolnshire within our friendly and dedicated Dietetic team.

We're looking for a motivated, enthusiastic individual with excellent clinical skills to provide specialist Dietetic support across a range of services within LPFT.

The post holder will be professionally accountable for their own caseload and delivery of effective, high quality specialist Dietetic support under the leadership of our Lead Dietitian.

This is an outstanding opportunity for career development, in an area of highly specialised clinical practice.

Regular line management and clinical supervision will be offered.

Main duties of the job

Clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients - to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time

Undertake comprehensive specialist assessment, treatment and discharge of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and multiple pathologies. Use of specialist clinical reasoning, evidence based practice, investigative and analytical skills

Engage service users in treatment planning decisions, in line with their individual goals.

Write clear plans of care for both the patients, carers and multi-disciplinary teams to follow.

Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required, using standardised outcome measures where appropriate. Encourage and support staff in the use of appropriate outcome measures.

Provide specialist advice, teaching, training and instruction to patients, relatives, carers and professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of treatment, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

Promote integrated working and contribute to the delivery of holistic care by actively participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings

Support the Lead Dietitian in monitoring and responding to waiting lists and manage workload

To support LPFT in the management of NG/enteral feeding.

To provide management and clinical supervision for junior dietitic staff.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support delivery of an age inclusive service for adults of working age and children including people who have a range of conditions including mental health, learning disabilities and eating disorders and will deliver interventions in accordance with Trust Pathways.

To provide therapeutic care and health promotional /educational activities across the county within Mental Health Services.

To act as a source of specialist clinical advice and guidance for clients families, carers and the multi-disciplinary team.

To provide a Specialist Dietetic perspective in complex multidisciplinary assessments and treatment programmes.

To hold and manage a Dietetic caseload.

To inform the diagnosis of patients as part of the wider multidisciplinary team.

To be responsible for devising the nutritional treatment plans of patients on caseload.

To be involved in legal decisions relating to mental capacity linked to artificial feeding or the implementation of dietary recommendations. To inform decision making and planning around Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. To be involved in decision making around child protection and adult safeguarding.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Dietitian with current HCPC registration
• BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
• Evidence of CPD
• Willingness to undertake specific training

Desirable

• Membership of British Dietetic Association (BDA)
• Post registration training in associated area which supports practice

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in an MDT and ability to discuss management plans and their implications with the MDT
• Wide range of post registration dietetic experience including delivery of services for inpatient and in the community
• Experience of training Student Dietitians

Desirable

• Experience of working in a mental health setting (including inpatient and community)
• Experience working with people who have/had Eating Disorders
• Experience of working with people who have a Learning Disability

Skills

Essential

• Literate in IT/Computer Skills
• Good verbal communications skills, ability to communicate with a wide range of people using different medias
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage own caseload
• Ability to work independently and in a team recognising own and others' limitations

Special Requirements

Essential

• Be able to travel independently without the use of public transport

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Welton House

Lime Kiln Way

Lincoln

LN2 4WH

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