This 12-month post leads dietetic input within TUNE-UP, a specialist weight management and metabolic health service run in partnership by South London and Maudsley and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trusts. The role centres on nutritional assessment and individual care plans for adults with severe mental illness. Work is mainly with an outpatient caseload, delivered one-to-one and in groups, face-to-face or virtually, and includes support for people on GLP-1 medicines. Current HCPC registration and mental health dietetic experience are essential.
What the job involves
- Lead dietetic input within the specialist multidisciplinary weight management and metabolic health service
- Manage a complex, predominantly outpatient caseload of adults with severe mental illness
- Undertake comprehensive nutritional assessments and develop individualised care plans
- Deliver and review weight management interventions through individual and group sessions, face-to-face or virtual
- Deliver dietary care for overweight, obesity, metabolic syndrome, disordered eating and nutritional needs linked to mental illness and psychiatric medication, including people on GLP-1 receptor agonists
- Work with service users, carers and colleagues in medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and psychology, and with partner dietetic services at Guy's and St Thomas'
- Contribute to developing and refining dietetic pathways, resources and educational materials
- Provide information, education and training to service users, carers and healthcare colleagues on nutrition, hydration and dietary management of disease
- Contribute specialist advice on food provision and nutritional supplements, respecting cultural, religious and personal preferences
- Lead or contribute to research, audit, service evaluation and quality improvement
- Support student placements and supervise junior dietetic colleagues as agreed with the Head of Nutrition and Dietetics
Qualifications
- BSc, postgraduate diploma or MSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Strong evidence of continuing professional development
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration as a dietitian
- BDA membership or other body conferring professional indemnity insurance
Experience
- Significant post-registration clinical dietetic experience, including in mental health services
- NHS experience
- Nutrition support, including managing patients at risk of refeeding syndrome, and oral nutritional supplements
- Dietetic experience in food provision and catering
- Clinical practice in disordered eating, weight management and metabolic syndrome
- Working in a multidisciplinary team
Skills & knowledge
- Training or experience in motivation, behaviour change or counselling skills
- Excellent knowledge of clinical nutrition and dietetic care
- Knowledge of clinical dietetics in mental health, including side effects of psychiatric medication
- Excellent knowledge of overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome and its management
- Excellent knowledge of disordered eating, its drivers, and dietetic assessment and support
- Knowledge of cultural diversity in food choices, cooking and eating practices
Nice to have
- Clinical supervision training
- Student training course
- Membership of relevant special interest groups, such as the BDA Specialist Mental Health Group
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act
- Research skills
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
