Community Diabetes Specialist Dietitian
| Posting date: | 01 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2025 |
| Location: | Gloucester, GL1 2DB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9327-25-0408 |
Summary
In this role you will be an integral member of the Community Diabetes Service, providing evidence based dietetic care, responsible for managing your own caseload and working closely with members of our supportive multidisciplinary team. You will be delivering remote and face to face patient consultations and education to support patients, family, carers and other health and care professionals to improve outcomes for people with Type 2 diabetes. Your base will be at Southgate Moorings, Gloucester, and there will be an element of home working, virtual groups and meetings, plus telephone consultations. To provide specialist dietetic assessments, education and treatment programmes in community hospitals, GP surgeries, health centres, community venues, patients own homes and remotely. To use high level of specialist clinical knowledge and expertise to identify and address individual needs for patients who have complex medical, nutritional, psychological and social needs, based on a range of treatment options. To use advanced communication/ behaviour change skills and motivational techniques, tools and resources with patients who may have multifaceted dietary needs and/or barriers to communication. To support primary health care teams, community healthcare professionals and care staff and students with information to enable management plans to be put into practice, and develop / provide up to date nutritional information and resources. To work flexibly and have an understanding of the process of change; participating in service evaluation, audit, service and practice development, and training students. To take responsibility for identifying and meeting your own learning needs, using relevant internal and external training resources and opportunities, including conferences. KEY RELATIONSHIPS: Patient families and carers; Healthcare professionals, including GPs and Primary Care and Secondary Care (Acute Hospital) Teams, Allied Health Professionals, Nursing Staff, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Consultants; Care Homes and other Care Organisations / Providers, Patient Support Groups and Charitable Organisations; Council and Social Services; Social workers, Social Prescribers, and other services and agencies within and outside the NHS.