Specialist CAMHS Dietitian (Aquarius Ward)
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £56,276.00 to £63,176.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56276.00 - £63176.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 August 2025 |
| Location: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9294-25-0387 |
Summary
To provide a specialist dietetic service to young people admitted to CAMHS inpatient services. This involves working with service users and multidisciplinary team members to identify and address the complex psychological and social factors that affect compliance with dietary treatment, thus enabling long term / permanent lifestyle changes. To undertake clinical assessments and appropriate dietetic intervention for service users. This may include formulating individualised management and treatment plans ensuring optimal outcome whilst minimising risk; and complex enteral feeding (PEG and nasogastric feeds). To communicate effectively with service users, carers and families. This involves giving dietary advice with multifaceted emotional, physical and psychological problems where acceptance is potentially difficult. This will also occasionally involve working in conditions requiring the ability to react sensitively where service users have a history of physical, sexual and / or mental abuse. To work autonomously within the dietetic team with little or no daily supervision To run group teaching and menu planning sessions on dietetic issues for service users, carers and families to aid recovery To write, implement and monitor guidelines for management of service users admitted to the acute hospitals and advise junior staff responsible for their care To promote awareness of the role of the dietitian within the services, negotiating priorities where appropriate. To work effectively as a team member of the dietetic service, providing a flexible service, covering as appropriate other dietetic services. This will include complex enteral feeding (PEG and nasogastric feeds) and emergency cover i.e. new unplanned admissions or enteral feeding Support the delivery of the Dietetic team strategic priorities and goals, whilst aligning to the Trust strategy and values.