HCRG Care Group is recruiting a dietitian to its Community Dietetics Service in Wiltshire. The post covers specialist nutritional assessment and monitoring for adults on long-term home enteral feeding, with the holder managing their own caseload. It is a 22.5 hour week with flexible working available, within an Adult Dietetics Service that has clinical leadership. A UK driving licence is required to travel across the service area.
What the job involves
- Deliver specialist dietetic assessment, treatment and monitoring for adults on long-term enteral feeding in community settings
- Assess suitability for gastrostomy feeding and coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams
- Interpret and communicate complex nutritional interventions and feeding regimens
- Advise healthcare professionals on enteral feeding equipment, tube care, stoma care and nutritional management
- Manage own caseload, working with specialist dietitians, dietetic assistants and multidisciplinary colleagues
- Deliver evidence-based, patient-centred care
- Participate in developing clinical policies, pathways and evidence-based practice guidance
- Maintain clinical records in line with HCPC, BDA, information governance and local standards
- Monitor clinical outcomes and contribute to performance reporting
- Support safe, effective and cost-efficient community nutrition services
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent qualification recognised for HCPC registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
- NHS dietetic experience in inpatient and/or outpatient settings
- Broad dietetic experience in nutritional support and enteral feeding
- Use of MUST or an equivalent nutrition screening tool
- Working within multidisciplinary teams
- Supervising students and supporting workforce development
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Communicating complex information to patients, carers and professionals
- Understanding of clinical governance, audit and evidence-based practice
- Computer literacy, including electronic patient records and reporting systems
Checks & eligibility
- Full UK driving licence and ability to travel across the service area
Nice to have
- Community dietetics experience
- Clinical supervision skills or training
- PENG qualification or equivalent
- Membership of the British Dietetic Association and specialist interest groups
- Experience in service improvement and audit
- Leadership experience or formal leadership training
What’s offered
- NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- My Reward Hub membership with discounts, cashback and vouchers
- Access to earned wages as you work, to cover emergencies without overdraft fees
- Online and face-to-face wellbeing support, including legal, debt and career coaching
- eLearning, career pathways and continuing professional development through The Learning Enterprise
- Flexible working arrangements
- Ideas encouraged, backed by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding a year
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
