Community Dietitian in Nottingham

Would you like an opportunity to develop your dietetic career as a Dietitian working in the community? We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our friendly team of innovative Community Adult Dietitians. The clinical element of this role will involve work clinically in the community adult dietetic service offering expert advice and support for adults including oral nutritional supplements and nutritional support to patients living with a long term health condition. It will involve seeing adults and their families/carers in community clinics and in their homes whilst also offering video and telephone support to patients if required. The service will provide support and specialist guidance to GPs and other community health professionals, including collaboration working with wider CityCare teams.

This permanent Band 5 post plays an integral role within the overall Community Dietetic team, supporting delivery of training, Band 4 dietetic assistant and other health care professionals. The role is suitable for those looking to start a career within community nutrition and dietetics. We will consider applicants who will become a registered dietitian this year (you would be working as a Band 4 until you receive your HCPC registration).

Main duties of the job

The role requires you to have good knowledge in nutrition and dietetics to gain experience and career development within the adult community nutrition and dietetics service. This role will involve working closely with the team leadership to develop the existing community service to ensure delivery of safe, efficient and effective services. You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage your own workload under pressure. We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about their speciality.

About us

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference every day to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in people's lives.

CityCare values the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation. We are proud to be a force-friendly organisation and are dedicated to supporting Veterans, Service Leavers, Reservists, and military spouses/partners. We value the unique skills and contributions you bring. CityCare is an equal opportunities employer. We are positive about employing people with disabilities.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

• To provide clinical nutrition and dietetic services in the community, to include community clinics, care homes and home visits.
• To liaise with health care professionals and General Practitioners.
• To promote evidence based dietary guidelines.
• To support the delivery of patient group education sessions.
• To provide training on food and nutrition related topics to other health professionals.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical

• Undertaking dietetic clinics within community settings, with referrals from GPs and other health professionals.
• Providing appropriate dietary counselling, therapeutic dietary advice and lifestyle advice to patients.
• Communicating relevant dietary and lifestyle advice effectively in an understandable form.
• Providing a clinical nutrition and dietetic services to Care Homes.
• Providing a domiciliary service to housebound patients and their carers, giving appropriate dietary counselling and lifestyle advice.
• Maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records.
• Undertaking data collection e.g. use of SystmOne and other packages to collect patient data statistics.
• Managing own clinical caseload and liaising with specialist community dietitians for more complex referrals as required.

Education and Training

• Supporting the delivery of patient group education sessions (e.g. diabetes education).
• Delivering evidence-based training on diet and nutrition-related topics, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials and evaluation.
• Deliver MUST training to City Care staff/teams.
• Supporting the training and assessment of dietetic students during their community placement.
• Responding to ad-hoc requests from patient support groups for dietary education sessions and displays on a variety of topics, which fall within the scope of the role.

Health Promotion

• Promoting evidence-based dietary guidelines to all age groups.
• Participating in health promotion events on a variety of nutritional topics and communicating with the general public.
• Acting as a source of unbiased, up-to-date information on nutrition to professionals and the public.

Professional Advice and Liaison

• Supporting the clinical dietetic team to work with CityCare's neighbourhood teams and other professional groups to ensure consistent and appropriate nutrition and dietetic advice is available throughout the community.

Competence to Practice

• Meeting the requirements of the Health Professions Council and maintaining professional registration.
• Working within the Health Professions Council, British Dietetic Association and local codes of conduct.
• Participating in clinical supervision as required.
• Participating in professional or nutrition-related research, evaluation and audit.
• A commitment to continuing professional development, including the undertaking of relevant formal and informal postgraduate training and collection of evidence of competency to practice.
• Participating in individual performance reviews.
• Involvement in risk management assessments as required.
• Complying with policies, procedures and statutory regulations.

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous clinical experience in a variety of therapeutic diets as part of practical placements or post registration experience.
• Experience of communicating effectively on a one to one or group basis.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary health care setting as part of practical placements or post registration experience.
• Community dietetic experience as a student.
• Involvement with development and delivery of training sessions on diet-related topics.
• Experience of using Systmone for record keeping purposes.

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian (Health and Care Professions Council).
• Degree in Nutrition and/or Dietetics (or equivalent diploma).

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of a variety of therapeutic diets.
• Demonstration of good written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of the nutritional requirements of different population groups.
• Appreciation of health inequalities relating to food.
• Awareness of communication needs of people from differing cultures and with differing physical and learning abilities.
• Accurate keyboard and IT skills for data inputting, word processing, internet access and dietary analysis.
• Evidence of ability to work unsupervised with good organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Experience of using behavioural change and counselling techniques to promote lifestyle changes with individuals and/or groups.
• Knowledge of national targets and reports relating to adults diet and nutrition.
• Time management training.

Special Requirements

• Right to Work in the UK.
• Ability to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service.
• Ability to work out of hours.
• Full driving licence and the ability to travel between locations.
• Will be required to transport, set up and use appropriate equipment e.g. display stands, flip chart stands, PowerPoint projectors, IT equipment, nutritional aids/resources, anthropometric equipment.

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.