Nutrition and Dietetics Team - NELFT (North East London Foundation Trust)

Opportunity:Prescribing Support Dietitian Band 6

Localities: Barking, Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge

Base: Porters Avenue Health Centre, Barking and Dagenham

NELFT's Barking, Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge Nutrition and Dietetics team is excited to announce an opportunities for Band 6 Prescribing Support Dietitian to join our team. We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic, and confident professional to contribute to our growing team's success, delivering exceptional care across the mentioned localities.

Join our team and be part of an organization dedicated to excellence patient care

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Dietetics

Developing, implementing and supporting a care pathway for appropriate prescribing and monitoring of oral nutrition supplements within Barking, Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge. This will lead to improved management of malnutrition and support effective and appropriate prescribing of Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS).

Collaboration: Work collaboratively with dietitians, Medicines management teams, Integrated Care Board, nursing and residential homes, community and acute teams.

Patient-Centered Care: Demonstrate sensitivity, non-judgment, and professionalism in dealing with patients. Provide advice in a considerate manner.

Professional Development: Demonstrate a commitment to professional development and training opportunities

Communication and Time Management: Possess excellent communication and time management skills to efficiently coordinate tasks and interactions with patients, carers, and fellow health professionals.

Line Management and Training

Experienced in student training

Flexibility: Be able to travel efficiently to fulfill job requirements. The role may involve travel across the three boroughs - Barking, Dagenham, Redbridge, and Havering.

About us

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of �4,313 to a maximum of �5,436 p.a. pro rata for part time).

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

For further details please refer to the Job description attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Dietetic degree or equivalent
• HCPC registeration
• post registration experience in nutrition support and dietetics and commitment to CPD

Desirable

• Membership of the British Dietetic Association

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 18 months post-registration experience in a range of clinical areas including nutrition support
• Ability to provide supervision, support & guidance to junior member of staff & students
• Line management experience.

Knowledge

Essential

• An awareness of NHS priorities
• Clinical knowledge & experience in managing patients requiring nutrition support with other nutrition related diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and malnutrition.
• Demonstrates collaboration & MDT working

Skills

Essential

• Highly effective communication skills - both written and verbal
• Effective organisational skills - to be able to prioritise and manage own workload within time & financial constraints.
• Problem solving approach - to be able to identify, analyse and evaluate a range of complex dietetic and non- dietetic, patient and non- patient related problems
• To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Porters Avenue Health centre

Porters Avenue

Dagenham

RM8 2EQ

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