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Community Dietitian | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2024 |
| Location: | Halifax, HX2 8AL |
| Company: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6379714/372-COM2288-A |
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to work within the Dietetic Community team and wider MDT providing dietary advice to patients in their own home, care homes, outpatients and group education sessions as required. This post is an exciting opportunity to join our skilled Dietetic team covering the wider Calderdale community. Our clinical caseload includes long-term conditions, complex neurological conditions, home enteral tube feeding, nutritional support, and general out-patient clinics. Our team is involved in research and development.
• To provide Dietetic assessment, treatment and advice to patients and carers across Calderdale community settings.
• To manage own caseload in designated area.
• To work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
• To provide Dietetic assessment, treatment and advice to patients and carers across Calderdale community settings.
• To manage own caseload in designated area.
• To work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.
• To work within the Calderdale community service, applying effective clinical interventions in line with current evidence base.
• To manage autonomously, a clinical workload of patients/clients, assessing and treating patients and maintaining clinical records, referring queries to senior staff.
• To have Dietetic assessment and treatment skills in the areas listed but not limited to:
Range of clinical specialities including more specialist areas with supervision from senior clinical staff
All forms of nutritional support
Home Enteral Tube Feeding
Discharge and transfer of care
General outpatient clinic
Group education sessions as required.
• To communicate effectively using non-verbal, verbal, written and electronic means.
• To liaise and develop rapport with patients/clients, carers, members of the MDT, where appropriate, and outside agencies under guidance of a senior therapist.
• To act, within the service, as a resource and provide advice for other professionals and colleagues within the MDT about the assessment, treatment, management, and care of patients/clients with support from senior staff.
• To work alongside other professionals to ensure effective care pathways.
• To make appropriate referrals to other agencies/practitioners.
• To deliver programmes of assessment, treatment and intervention for patients/clients with support from senior staff.
• To manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to the training and competency levels of other team members to ensure the effective delivery of the service.
• To participate in the supervision process.
• To ensure a high standard of patient care is provided including implementing clinical standards relevant to the work undertaken.
• To provide assessment and advice for the MDT and participate in MDT meetings as appropriate.
• With experience, plan and delegate workload to assistants.
• To give advice, teaching and training to patients/clients, carers, volunteers and other health, educational and social care professionals, as appropriate to ensure provision of good patient care.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Jun 2024
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