Are you ready for the next step in your career and want to belong to a supportive team and work within an outstanding trust where you feel valued?

An opportunity has arisen in our dynamic and progressive service for a band 6 community dietitian based at Thorpe Health Centre, Norwich. You will join a friendly team of dietitians, dietetic assistant practitioners and dietetic assistants.

You will provide a high quality community dietetic service for our patients in Norfolk. We are an all encompassing community team covering four main clinical areas:

• Home enteral feeds
• Learning disabilities
• In-patients
• General community

You will be supported and line managed by an experienced band 7 team lead dietitian. In addition to regular one to one supervision we provide regular peer review sessions to support CPD. We will support your learning and development through internal and external opportunities.

We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students.

Main duties of the job

You will be working within central Norfolk, with responsibility for the dietetic/nutritional management of patients on your caseload. This may include the following conditions:

• • Endocrine disorders including Diabetes, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  • Hyperlipidaemia
  • Specialist obesity and weight management
  • Malnutrition
  • Dysphagia/ swallowing problems
  • Neurological problems e.g. MND, Parkinson's, MS
  • Allergies and intolerances
  • Disorders of the Gastro-intestinal tract e.g. Coeliac Disease, IBD, IBS

We use electronic records andthere are opportunities for home and remote working for this post.

We value the importance of non-clinical work for the development of our workforce and to provide a high quality service for our patients. As such we welcome and encourage your contribution to in-service development and quality improvement projects, as well as participation in research and audit. Furthermore, you will play an integral role in the training and supervision of students dietitians, dietetic apprentices / support workers, and band 5 dietitians. We will support you to develop the leadership skills required to excel in this role.

About us

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

If you are aged 16-30 and not currently in education, employment or training, our colleagues at the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (supported by the Princes Trust), can provide application and interview coaching. To request this support please contact NWICB.Careers@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To manage own specialist caseload and provide nutritional and dietetic advice in specialist area to medical, health care professionals and other agencies.
• To assess plan and implement treatment programmes and monitor patients in a variety of settings, offering therapeutic dietary advice and education, to address patients complex and changing needs.
• To lead service development within own clinical area with support from the team leader and contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NCHCs trust values of Community, Compassion and Creativity.

Person Specification

Experience, Skill, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential

• Significant post registration experience, some of which should be in the specialist area
• Experience of teaching nutrition and dietetics to patients and healthcare professionals including group teaching Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in audit and/or research
• Good Clinical knowledge and experience in specialist area e.g. paediatrics, diabetes
• Good communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• Commitment to engage in CPD and appraisal system
• Behaviour change skills
• Computer literate - including the ability to use Word, PowerPoint and Excel software
• Competent to use specialist equipment for anthropometric measurements e.g. skinfold callipers
• Good time management and ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to reflect and appraise own performance
• Ability to deal with distressed patients/relatives/carers and staff
• Counselling skills
• Motivational interviewing skills

Personal and people development

Essential

• Supervisory skills
• Good teaching and presentation skills and experience of teaching a variety of NHS/non-NHS staff and patients

Other

Essential

• Able to communicate effectively in written and verbal English Language

Desirable

• Holds full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle (if applicable)

Personal Attributes / Behaviours (linked to the Trust's Behaviour Framework)

Essential

• Effective role model, demonstrating NCHC's trust values of Community, Compassion and Creativity
• Ability to use own initiative
• Effective team member
• Ability to be assertive as appropriate
• Ability to work flexibly
• Ability to motivate self and others

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent
• Current Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration in Dietetics
• Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism or equivalent knowledge
• Clinical Supervisory Skills course for training student dietitians or equivalent supervising experience
• Accredited BDA courses in specialist area

Desirable

• Member of the British Dietetic Association
• Member of relevant Specialist BDA Group

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Thorpe Health Centre

St Williams Way

Norwich

NR7 0AJ

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