Renal Dietitian
| Posting date: | 25 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,407.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28407.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2DX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9218-24-0649 |
Summary
To work autonomously to provide specialist dietetic advice to renal patients, their carers and staff, with support from senior colleagues where necessary, including: Carry out nutritional assessments (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition, drug therapy and effectiveness of treatment, diet history) to determine nutritional status and required intervention Development of holistic treatment plans (calculation of nutritional requirements, analysis of nutritional intakes sometimes using specialist IT systems, client centred goals and discharge planning including patients on artificial nutritional support) Prescription of dietary treatment and ACBS products for conditions where there are limited professional / clinical guidelines available. To be clinically competent to give specialist dietetic advice, treatment and dietary counselling to renal patients in in-patient and out-patient locations, consultant led clinics and dialysis units. To communicate nutrition and dietetic information in an understandable form to staff, clients and carers, requiring negotiation, persuasion, motivation and counselling skills including situations where there are barriers to understanding. To use appropriate communication skills and resources to ensure that suitably accessible information is available to individuals on their dietary treatment/care plans. To provide a resource of specialist renal nutritional care to other Health Professionals and Dietitians across the Trust and immediate environments. For further details please see the attached job descriptions.