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Highly Specialist Dietitian | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | Sidcup, DA14 6LT |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7130412/277-7130412-ALD |
Summary
A dynamic, innovative and forward-thinking dietetic department is now expanding. Are you ready for a new challenge and to become part of this team?
We are looking for a compassionate dietitian to join our team, providing expert nutritional care to adults with a learning disability. This is a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals who require tailored dietary support. As an autonomous dietitian, you will assess, plan and deliver personalised nutrition care, ensuring that their dietary needs are met in a holistic and practical way. You will collaborate closely with the wider multidisciplinary team, including consultant psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, other allied health professionals, carers and family members.
You will also provide education and training to staff and carers, empowering them with the knowledge and skills to support nutritional needs effectively. A full staff training programme is currently being developed, and you will have the opportunity to play an active role in the development of the training resources and delivery ongoing.
The successful candidate will have excellent leadership, organisation and communication skills. Your clinical experience and knowledge will contribute to both guideline and service development. You will have the opportunity to attend the annual Oxleas Therapies Conference with Allied Health Professionals and Psychological Therapists in the Therapies Directorate.
The Highly specialist dietitian working in adult learning disabilities (ALD) will beaccountable for own caseload, working autonomously across the three boroughs of Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley, alongside the Directorate Lead Dietitian. Service users have a variety of highly specialist dietetic needs, diverse presentations, and a range of mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities. Dietitians, along with others in the community learning disability team, have a primary role in facilitating access to universal health and care services.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• The Highly Specialist Dietitian will be responsible for the integration and provision of a comprehensive and quality dietetic service for adult clients with learning disabilities (ALD), living in the community.
• The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of adult clients who have a learning disability and able to work and travel independently.
• The post holder will use expert knowledge and experience to educate and support patients and their carers regarding their dietary management and sustaining behavioral change.
• The post holder will provide specialist nutritional and dietetic training, support, clinical assessment and education to members of the multi-disciplinary teams (MDT).
• The Highly Specialist Dietitian will contribute to further service development, audit, policy writing and lead on delegated service development projects.
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Apr 2025
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