Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
• To provide expert clinical and appraisal support to members of the Nutrition Support Team promoting, influencing and enabling transferable skills to provide resilience in accordance with service demand. • To provide expert nutrition support care to people on Home Enteral Feeding or identified at risk of malnutrition, including those prescribed oral nutritional supplements, to enable their dietary and nutritional rehabilitation and refer for non-nutritional underlying factors to other appropriate health and social care services. • To identify underlying contributory factors for malnutrition and refer to partner services as appropriate. • To develop tailored best practice standards and protocols in the management of home enteral feeding and service delivery. • To support planning, delivery and review of the strategic objectives of the Nutrition Support Service. • To coordinate placement timetables and support supervision and development of dietetic students. Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential Criteria
Degree in Dietetics Current AHP with UK HCPC registration Evidence of other post-registration education and training in nutrition support and enteral feeding Desirable Criteria
Membership of the British Dietetic Association Member of Specialist Interest Group related to Nutrition Support Experience
Essential Criteria
Post-registration and previous experience in a range of clinical areas including nutrition support. Experience of recommending the use of oral nutritional supplements in line with NICE guidelines and ACBS criteria Experience in conducting nutrition support audits, quality improvement and / or research Desirable Criteria
Experience in demand management of oral nutrition support working with medicines management and GPs Experience in home enteral feeding Skills and Knowledge
Essential Criteria
Advanced skills in the assessment & treatment of clients with nutrition related disease. Ability to problem solve, prioritise, demonstrate clinical reasoning & professional curiosity. Highly developed communication & reports writing skills, in verbal & written format Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification. Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job. Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date. At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks: Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN) Race Equality Network Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff. Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH. The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk) We work Flexibly Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Documents to Download
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• To provide expert clinical and appraisal support to members of the Nutrition Support Team promoting, influencing and enabling transferable skills to provide resilience in accordance with service demand. • To provide expert nutrition support care to people on Home Enteral Feeding or identified at risk of malnutrition, including those prescribed oral nutritional supplements, to enable their dietary and nutritional rehabilitation and refer for non-nutritional underlying factors to other appropriate health and social care services. • To identify underlying contributory factors for malnutrition and refer to partner services as appropriate. • To develop tailored best practice standards and protocols in the management of home enteral feeding and service delivery. • To support planning, delivery and review of the strategic objectives of the Nutrition Support Service. • To coordinate placement timetables and support supervision and development of dietetic students. Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential Criteria
Degree in Dietetics Current AHP with UK HCPC registration Evidence of other post-registration education and training in nutrition support and enteral feeding Desirable Criteria
Membership of the British Dietetic Association Member of Specialist Interest Group related to Nutrition Support Experience
Essential Criteria
Post-registration and previous experience in a range of clinical areas including nutrition support. Experience of recommending the use of oral nutritional supplements in line with NICE guidelines and ACBS criteria Experience in conducting nutrition support audits, quality improvement and / or research Desirable Criteria
Experience in demand management of oral nutrition support working with medicines management and GPs Experience in home enteral feeding Skills and Knowledge
Essential Criteria
Advanced skills in the assessment & treatment of clients with nutrition related disease. Ability to problem solve, prioritise, demonstrate clinical reasoning & professional curiosity. Highly developed communication & reports writing skills, in verbal & written format Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification. Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job. Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date. At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks: Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN) Race Equality Network Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff. Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH. The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk) We work Flexibly Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Documents to Download
JD (PDF, 616.3KB)
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