We have 0.25 WTE post available- applications will be consider for people seeking additional hours and secondments

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of people with frailty in our communities across Plymouth, the South Hams, and West Devon? Do you thrive in a dynamic and innovative healthcare environment? We have some very exciting opportunities to join our exciting Community Frailty Virtual Ward project. This project forms part of a wider plan to improve urgent and emergency healthcare delivery.

We are committed to revolutionising healthcare delivery for frail and elderly patients by launching a Community Frailty Virtual Ward. Our aim is to provide high-quality, patient-centred care in the comfort of their own homes, reducing hospital admissions and length of stay in hospital and enhancing overall well-being through enhanced care coordination.

Interviewing between 9-15th September at the Beauchamp Centre, Mount Gould Hospital. Please bring with you:

Copies of any qualifications relevant to the role

Copies of training certificates (digital copies are acceptable)

3 forms of identification, to include your Right to Work documentation and 2 proof of address (ideally a printed bank statement from a Current Account). This must also include at least one photographic identification document. This will allow us to start pre-employment checks without delay.

Main duties of the job

As Dietician, you will play a critical role in our new multidisciplinary team, the 6 new frailty virtual wards that we have planned for our locality. The post holder will work closely with consultants, pharmacists, ACPs and other healthcare professionals to ensure seamless, integrated care on the virtual ward, by providing specialist ACP assessments and interventions for those admitted to the Frailty Virtual Ward.

Key Responsibilities

To provide a specialist, high-quality nutrition and dietetic service within Frailty Virtual Wards.

To provide specialist dietetic assessment, diagnosis, treatment and education to individual patients with on the Frailty Virtual Ward.

To provide advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, patients, carers, relatives or other non-professional contacts

To be an integral member of the MDT providing education, training and dissemination of information to all healthcare professionals.

To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision

To continue own professional development in line with HCPC regulations

A secondment will only be considered if your current manager is supportive of you undertaking a secondment. A secondment may have the possibility of becoming permanent

Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.

We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.

Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:

Protected CPD time for registered staff

Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff

Leadership & mentoring programmes

Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training

A Robust Preceptorship

A bespoke induction programme

Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a specialist, high-quality nutrition and dietetic service within Frailty Virtual Wards.

To provide specialist dietetic assessment, diagnosis, treatment and education to individual patients with on the Frailty Virtual Ward.

To provide advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, patients, carers, relatives or other non-professional contacts

To be an integral member of the MDT providing education, training and dissemination of information to all healthcare professionals.

To be an autonomous practitioner, holding a clinical caseload and working without direct supervision

To continue own professional development in line with HCPC regulations.

To work as the lead / sole dietitian for Livewells Frailty Virtual Wards, with support from the wider MDT and clinical Leads from the Frailty Virtual Ward (line manager once in post). The post sits within the Adult Frailty, and Specialist Services Directorate.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsibility for People Management
• Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources
• Responsibility for administration
• Responsibility for people who use our services
• Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments
• Other responsibilities
• Communications and relationships
• Physical Demands of the job
• Shared skills

Please see Job Description and Personal Spec for more detailed description of the post.

Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Competence with patients with complex needs, communication issues and/or challenging behaviour.
• Varied and comprehensive post-graduate clinical experience across a range of clinical areas.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of delivering in-service training.
• Experience of interpreting and acting on complex clinical information including anthropometry, biochemistry, pharmacology and medical history to make decisions about client care.
• Evidence of participation in audit activities in dietetic practice.
• Experience and competence in negotiating and recording aims of treatment and agreeing a plan of action with client/relatives/patients/medical staff.

Desirable

• Competence and experience in advanced communication skills including negotiation, motivational interviewing and evoking behavioural change in complex cases.
• Knowledge and Experience of enteral feeding and re-feeding syndrome as well as alternative methods of nutritional support.

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrate specialist knowledge of Best Dietetic Practice in the treatment or management of nutritional needs.
• Evidence of an accurate up to date portfolio in order to demonstrate Continued Professional Development (CPD) lifelong learning and skills of reflective practice.
• Demonstrate ability to deliver best practice for a range of more complex clinical conditions.
• Computer literacy skills, including quick and accurate use of keyboard, presentation of data, word processing, electronic delivery of presentations report writing and internet use to inform practice.
• Knowledge and understanding of supporting patients with rehabilitation of neurological impairments.

Desirable

• Membership of Specialist Interest Group.
• Member of British Dietetic Association.
• Previous experience in working within neuro rehabilitation.

Specific Skills

Essential

• An ability to use a variety of interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrate a high level of empathy, self- awareness and emotional resilience having to cope with emotionally demanding situations.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of time management and organisational skills.
• Able to work within codes of practice of HCPC, Occupational Standards British Dietetic Association (BDA) and policies and procedure
• Effective team worker.
• Proactive, with an ability to set up new initiatives.
• Self motivated.
• Empathetic and approachable.
• To display accurate time keeping.
• Flexible regarding duties and ability to cope with change.
• Ability to access/travel to patient homes across the locality.

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics or related qualification and 3 or more years demonstrable relevant experience.
• HCPC Registration.
• Evidence of on-going professional development.

Desirable

• Evidence of further formal study leading to postgraduate qualifications e.g. Diploma in Advanced Dietetic Practice, Masters degree.
• Working towards or hold a certificate in counselling skills or have extensive counselling experience.
• PENG clinical update.
• A teaching qualification or experience of teaching groups.
• Clinical Supervisory Skills Course.

Employer details

Employer name

Livewell Southwest

Address

200 Mount Gould Road

Mount Gould

Plymouth

Devon

PL4 7PY

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