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Highly Specialist Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, City of Westminster

Highly Specialist Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian

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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, City of Westminster

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 26 Jun | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: c9057c502c944e028b17947b654ca866

Location ref: City of Westminster

Full Job Description

  • Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
    • The Highly Specialist Dietitian will be responsible for the integration and provision of a comprehensive and quality dietetic service for all service users. The post holder will use expert knowledge and experience to educate and support patients and their carers regarding their dietary management and sustaining behavioural change. The post holder will provide specialist nutritional and dietetic training, support, clinical assessment and education to nurses and other members of the multi-disciplinary teams. The Highly Specialist Dietitian will contribute to further service development, policy writing and lead on delegated service development projects. This role will work across the dietetic caseloads providing a co-ordinated dietetic service for patients registered with a GP in the Royal Borough of Greenwich who are allocated to the Home Enteral Nutrition, Food First and Primary Care dietetic caseloads., The Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian will be responsible for the delivery of a Highly Specialised Home Enteral Feeding dietetic service to patients referred for enteral nutrition via a tube. The dietitian will also be responsible for providing support and supervision to the Malnutrition service staff (Food first, Primary care and Home Enteral Feeding). The post holder may be operationally responsible for work that impacts on dietetic service provision and be able to advise appropriately. To deputise on the day-to-day operational management of the dietitians, assistants and staff working in the Greenwich Malnutrition service. This may include e.g. managing referrals and waiting lists, appropriate cover for clinics and home visits, creation of team rosters and timetables, authorising annual leave requests and regular local team meetings.

    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

Direct job link

https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/highly-specialist-home-enteral-feeding-dietitian-127022763
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