This Dietetic Clinical and Operational Lead post sits in the kidney dietetic service at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. The postholder leads nutrition support for kidney patients across inpatient and outpatient caseloads and manages the kidney dietitians day to day. It is a permanent, part-time role of 28 hours a week, working alongside assistant practitioners and specialist dietitians. Candidates need HCPC registration and a track record of leading a specialist service.
What the job involves
- Provide clinical leadership on dietetic management of kidney patients needing nutrition support, including specialist inpatient and outpatient caseloads, working autonomously
- Lead the daily operational management of the kidney dietitians
- Conduct in-depth nutritional assessments and clinical reasoning to decide diagnosis and intervention, with the MDT as needed
- Calculate nutritional requirements and tailor advice and choice of nutritional management
- Manage artificial feeding through regular monitoring, recalculation and adjustment of enteral feeding regimens and oral dietary advice
- Manage complications including electrolyte and fluid imbalances
- Provide expert opinion, education, advice and guidance to other professionals, including dietetic colleagues, on kidney disease and nutrition support
- Lead discussions on emotive and ethical issues, including artificial nutrition in palliative care and withdrawal of nutrition at end of life
- Communicate complex nutrition information to patients, staff and carers, including where there are barriers to understanding
- Lead clinical audit and research within nutrition support
- Contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, guidance development and service improvement
- Support kidney patients and caregivers
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree in nutrition and dietetics
- Postgraduate master's level qualification, or equivalent evidence of specialist clinical development
- Documented specialist CPD and clinical supervisory training for students
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration
Experience
- Leading and developing a specialist clinical service, using activity and performance data to plan improvement
- Operational management of staff, workload, capacity and competing priorities
- Supervising, mentoring and appraising colleagues; developing, delivering and evaluating education for patients, carers and professionals
- Leading quality improvement, audit or service change, with evaluated outcomes; clinical governance and risk management
- Advanced nutritional assessment and management of complex renal conditions, with autonomous decisions in complex cases
- Significant multidisciplinary team experience and influencing senior stakeholders on service development
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced specialist dietetic knowledge, current research, national policy and evidence-based management across the renal pathway
- Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal and presentation communication, adapted to different audiences; ability to work through interpreters
- Organisation, prioritisation and time management, with clinical risk identification and management
- Competent with digital systems and IT for clinical and operational practice; commitment to CPD and up-to-date knowledge
Checks & eligibility
- Immunisation and vaccination report from occupational health or GP
Other
- Evidence of Trust values and behaviours in practice; promoting equality, diversity and inclusion (managerial posts)
Nice to have
- BDA membership, including a relevant specialist interest group
- Teaching qualification
- Advanced communication and presentation skills training
- Leadership training
- Healthcare assessment module and prescribing (only if role has an identified need)
- Experience of workforce planning, business cases and financial or resource planning
- Experience in research
- Post-registration training in behavioural change and motivational interviewing
What’s offered
- Learning and development opportunities
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
