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Team Leader - Nutrition & Dietetics
| Posting date: | 12 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 March 2025 |
| Location: | Wakefield, WF1 4DG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9377-ATS4454 |
Summary
To assist the service lead in the delivering of service strategy and objectives on a day to day basis, planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the service provided To manage and lead the designated team, offering clinical and management support and advice To provide, leadership, supervision, training and appraisal for the designated team of staff To assist in the planning, development and evaluation of the service, holding responsibility for defined projects to develop services for patients using the service as set by the service lead To contribute to the Trust and nutrition and dietetic service clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda, including the setting and monitoring of practice standards To investigate incidents recorded in designated team / area of work. To take responsibility as lead investigator to action plans as a result of incidents. To escalate outcomes of incident investigation to the service lead To input risks to the risk register for designated team / area of work, formulate action plans and escalate to service lead as and when required To investigate and formulate first draft responses to complaints in designated team / area of work with support from the service lead, governance manager and DDO for Therapies and Clinical Psychology Ensure as team leader that their designated staff implement policy and service development changes To be responsible for the sickness management of designated staff in line with the trusts policy and procedures. To escalate to service lead as per trust policy and assist the service lead and HR manager in the management of sickness for the designated team To lead the teams annual audit plan and assist the service lead and clinical specialists in the delivery of audits in line with the service strategy and objectives. To ensure staff participation and completion of actions in a timely manner in the designated team To deputise for the service lead as required in their absence Interpret and analyse complex clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention and develop comprehensive treatment & discharge plans Undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical & advanced skills and devise individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care Demonstrate highly developed advanced skills for assessment and treatment of patients Provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of interventions e.g. nutritional support, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care Communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise outcomes and / or rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation and explanation to encourage patients to undertake their treatment programme Use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive or receptive dysphasia, pain, fear, confusion, critical illness, pain, memory loss Clinical caseload will be determined by the service lead with the team leader relevant to the service needs and requirements