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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, 6 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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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
    • We are looking for a proactive and friendly Band 7 Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) Dietitian to join our fast-paced Greenwich community dietetics team. You will provide highly specialised dietetic care across community settings, mainly managing adults requiring enteral nutrition, whilst supporting housebound patients at high risk of malnutrition. Car driving is essential to travel across the borough. This role suits an experienced clinician who thrives in a dynamic environment, works autonomously, is a strong team player and enjoys responsibility. We are seeking a proactive problem-solver with excellent clinical reasoning, organisational skills, adaptability and a passion for service development. The post holder will maintain high standards of patient care and documentation as per HCPC standards. Our Malnutrition Dietetics Service is collaborative so we value colleagues who demonstrate flexibility, share responsibility, support colleagues and maintain a wider service perspective. Alongside expert clinical care, you will support patients and MDT colleagues, lead HEN service development and quality improvement initiatives, supervise junior staff and deputise for the Team Manager. The successful candidate will demonstrate leadership, accountability, initiative and contribute to the needs of the HEN and wider Malnutrition Dietetics Service., 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. As a senior member of the team, the post holder will help shape the future direction of the Malnutrition Dietetics Service by leading service development, quality improvement and innovation initiatives, supported by audit, service evaluation and collaborative working with internal and external stakeholders.

    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

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