Nutritionist

This nutritionist post sits within Everyone Health's Lifestyle Service, running its Adult Weight Management programme for adults with serious mental illness across Staffordshire. The work centres on assessing nutritional needs, building care plans and running one-to-one and group sessions, delivered face to face or digitally, to help participants lose weight and keep it off. Travel across the county is required, mostly in the south, with some evening and weekend hours. Membership of the Association for Nutrition or BDA and an enhanced DBS check are needed.

What the job involves

• Carry out nutritional assessments and produce care plans for participants
• Deliver one-to-one and group nutrition interventions, face to face or digitally, in line with NICE guidance
• Give health education and nutritional counselling, using behaviour change techniques to address barriers to change
• Provide nutrition input at multi-professional meetings, including discharge planning, within a multidisciplinary team
• Support the development, delivery, evaluation and quality assurance of the integrated service and advise colleagues on nutrition
• Monitor programme delivery using validated tools and anthropometric measures to meet contractual KPIs
• Keep accurate records and reports in line with information governance, Caldicott and data protection requirements
• Maintain safeguarding awareness, report concerns and follow service policies and codes of conduct
• Carry out risk assessments and health and safety and equipment checks as directed by the Service Manager and Clinical Lead
• Take responsibility for own CPD and work within own competence and professional code of conduct
• Apply equality and diversity principles across project planning, delivery and evaluation
• Complete administrative tasks for patients, such as letters to referrers, follow-up calls and motivational texts

What’s required

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or postgraduate degree in nutrition, or at least 2 years' experience in the field

Registration & licences

• Membership of the Association for Nutrition (AfN) or the British Dietetic Association (BDA)

Experience

• At least 2 years working with adults with mental illness in community, primary care or inpatient settings
• Delivering nutritional support to adults over 18, one-to-one and in groups
• Devising and leading treatment programmes
• Working with patients of different cultures, genders and ages, particularly older people
• Working to time schedules and challenging performance targets
• Delivering health promotion at community events and within local community venues

Skills & knowledge

• Producing detailed, accurate nutrition care plans and translating complex information into patient-friendly advice
• Motivating and engaging individuals in groups and 1:1, working independently and within a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
• Computer literacy to maintain information systems in line with the national minimum dataset

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS check
• Full UK driving licence, with access to a car and business travel insurance
• Declaration on fitness to practise, including any investigations, removals or restrictions on registration

Other

• Respecting confidentiality and valuing people regardless of background or circumstances

Nice to have

• Knowledge of the complex needs of clients with serious mental illness
• Knowledge of nutrition requirements for specialist health improvement programmes for adults
• Knowledge of the stigma associated with obesity and its effects on wellbeing
• Knowledge of weight management, nutrition and physical activity in health improvement
• Knowledge of psychological and behaviour change theories and their application
• Knowledge of NICE guidance on the treatment of obesity
• Knowledge of confidentiality and data protection law
• Sound knowledge of clinical governance

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