Senior Community Dietitian
Job Description
Job summary
Are you looking to develop your skills and knowledge to build a career? Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a Band 6 Senior Community Dietitian on a part time basis of 22.5 hours per week. Flexible work options can be considered.
The responsibilities within this role include delivering a dietetic service to housebound patients and Care Home residents at risk of malnutrition in the Frimley South area.
The post holder will work closely with the wider relevant multi-disciplinary teams and provide support to Medicine Optimisation team.
You will lead on various projects such as Appropriate prescribing of Sip Feeds and Quality Improvement projects in care homes.
Our department is a well-established team of dietitians working across various specialities. Our department values every individual within the team, and is passionate about supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, in order to create a supportive team environment. We are keen to support continued professional development through access to internal and external opportunities for learning.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
- To provide individualised nutrition assessments and review for patients requiring oral nutrition support in care homes and those who are housebound across Frimley South Place
- To be a source of expertise for FHFT and Frimley ICB on issues relating to oral nutrition support in the community
- To support team lead and Frimley ICB medicines optimisation team in ensuring appropriate use of oral nutritional supplements in the community to treat malnutrition
- To educate, train and disseminate information to health and social care professionals including clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, dietetic colleagues, care home staff and students about the dietetic management of malnutrition in the community
- To undertake regular audit and service development projects
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for further details about the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Nutrition based course post registration
- Student supervision training
- Member of BDA
Experience
Essential
- Post registration clinical dietetic experience including community oral nutrition support
- Audit experience
- Training and education of healthcare professionals and patients
- Multidisciplinary team working
Desirable
- Leadership
- Research
Skills
Essential
- Organisational and prioritisation skills
- Problem solving
- Good communication skills
- Computer skills
Desirable
- Presentation skills
- Group skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Frimley Park Hospital
Portsmouth Road
Frimley
GU16 7UJ
