Job Purpose
Working closely with the Primary Care Dietetic Team, you will provide face-to-face and virtual clinical nutrition and dietetic services in the community (including outpatient clinics and domiciliary visits to housebound & care home patients). The post holder will have their own caseload of adult patients and will focus on a range of nutritional issues including malnutrition and chronic disease.

9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday

Would consider reduced hours / part-time hours

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for:

Provision of specialist Dietetic assessments and treatment to adult patients at health centres and a domiciliary service to patients in their own home and Care Homes within Brent.

Management of specialist caseload of clients who are malnourished or enterally fed and to maintain associated patient records.

Making recommendations to GPs on appropriate prescribing for their patients' dietary requirements.

Liaising with Dietitians and other health care professionals to ensure clients discharged from secondary care are followed up appropriately and receive ongoing input as required following discharge

Participating in clinical governance including Quality Improvement activities within Nutrition & Dietetics Brent.

About us

We providecommunity health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:

• stay well
  
• manage their own health with the right support
  
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision:deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence

Job description

Job responsibilities

To take a delegated lead on the development of service objectives or projects in liaison with colleagues.

To assume delegated tasks as requested by Head of Nutrition & Dietetics, including participation in working groups and policy development groups.

Organise and manage own caseload including clinical cases, health promotion and education.

To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible in accordance with Trust policies whilst maintaining effective communication with the Head of Nutrition & Dietetics.

To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment (eg wheelchair scales, hoist scales) ensuring standards of infection control and safety are complied with including equipment loaned to clients and that used for community-based programmes.

To be responsible for ordering and maintaining department supplies of nutrition support samples, associated enteral feed equipment and ensure current information is available for their use.

To advise Head of Nutrition & Dietetics on issues of service delivery including clinical activity, service pressures versus service capacity.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Degree or postgraduate diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics
• Health and Care Professions Council registration
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

• Membership of British Dietetic Association
• Post graduate qualification in a dietetic related field (eg paediatric dietetics, health promotion, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)

Experience

Essential

• Post-registration clinical dietetic experience
• Experience of providing dietetic advice for children (age 0 - 18)

Desirable

• Experience of using EMIS or a similar patient information system (eg SystmOne, RiO).

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Wembley Centre for Health & Care

116 Chaplin Road

Wembley

HA0 4UZ

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