An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join the Adult Integrated Care Dietetic team as a Band 6 Specialist Dietitian. The team work across community settings in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark including intermediate care settings, care homes, domiciliary care and in general practices.

We are a friendly team, who are proud and passionate about the work we do for our community dwelling patients. We have a dynamic and flexible approach to work. The role offers a wide range of benefits including the opportunity for flexible working, hybrid working, professional development opportunities and initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance.

This opportunity lends itself to individuals looking to widen their skillset, gain diverse experiences or for those wanting to lead service development. We encourage innovative practice which improves the care we deliver to our patients, and you will have the opportunity to trial innovative ideas. You will also develop skills in leadership and supervision, through leading on student practice education for the community team and providing clinical supervision to band 5 dietitians.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the team you will provide dietetic care to adult patients who are frail and undernourished. This includes domiciliary and free-living patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, those with pressure ulcers and patients requiring nutritional support due to illness, long term conditions or social factors. We work closely with members of the health and social care teams, and the voluntary sector to ensure malnourished patients receive the appropriate care and support in the community.

The team visit patients at home, and we also visit care homes, nursing homes, assisted living accommodations and Intermediate Care Centres in Lambeth and Southwark. We provide a number of outpatient community clinics for patients whom are malnourished, prescribed oral nutritional supplements or seek dietetic advice relating to weight reduction, diabetes or other diet related concerns.

You will be working closely with the South East London Prescribing Support Dietetic team and our acute colleagues across Lambeth and Southwark including Guy's and St Thomas' acute dietetic teams.

We are focused on improving integrated care and patient pathways, and you will have the opportunity to work with acute and community multi-disciplinary teams to support improved pathways of care including frailty and long term conditions.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To work as a member of the Adult Integrated Care Dietetic Team in community settings across Lambeth and Southwark
• To provide dietetic care to adult patients who are undernourished requiring support with their oral nutritional intake. This includes patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, those with pressure ulcers and patients requiring nutritional support due to illness, long term conditions or social factor
• To communicate and work closely with members of the health and social care teams, general practice teams and the voluntary sector to ensure malnourished patients receive the appropriate care and support in the community
• To visit patients whom are housebound at home, and visit Care Homes or Intermediate Care Centres in Lambeth and Southwark as required.
• To collaborate with other teams providing care and support to patients in these settings including integrated care teams and care home nursing teams
• To provide an outpatient community clinic for patients whom are malnourished, prescribed oral nutritional supplements or seek dietetic advice relating to weight reduction, diabetes or other diet related concerns. To communicate effectively with the GP clinical team and improve referral pathways to the clinic
• To work closely with acute colleagues across Lambeth and Southwark including Guys and St Thomas acute dietetic teams
• To contribute to improving pathways of patient care including collaborative work with acute and community multi-disciplinary teams to support improved pathways of patient care from hospital to home e.g. frailty and long term conditions
• To contribute to the development of educational resources for patients and healthcare professionals, and deliver training to GPs, community multidisciplinary teams, care home staff and carers on malnutrition screening and nutrition support
• To provide expert dietetic advice to the multidisciplinary team through attendance and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings at community healthcare sites
• To follow local guidelines and evidence based practice when providing dietetic assessments and care plans, including the appropriate prescription of oral nutritional supplements
• To participate in regular research and audit in line with departmental and MDT procedures
• To develop positive partnerships and relationships with local health, social care and voluntary teams across acute and community settings
• To work in line with team standard operating procedures and policies including record keeping and outcome reporting
• To provide clinical supervision to band 5 dietitians and to support the development and provide mentoring for junior staff in the team including band 5 dietitians, advanced dietetic assistants and student dietitians
• To be the lead for student training and practice education in the Adult Integrated Care Dietetic Team

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as part of a MDT
• Broad post registration experience within Clinical Dietetics

Desirable

• Conducting audit and or research
• Experience of training student dietitians

Skills

Essential

• Good communication
• Organisational skills
• Presentation skills- including talking to large groups
• Time management
• Maintain confidentiality

Desirable

• Computer skills

Knowledge

Essential

• BSc (Hons) Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
• Current State Registration

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mary Sheridan- Wooden Spoon House

5 Dugard Way

London

SE11 4TH

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