Eating Disorders Dietitian

_**Eating disorders dietitian**_

**Town ** Black Country

**Contract** Permanent **Hours** Full time - 37.5 hours per week

We are looking for an Eating Disorders Dietician to join our Eating Disorder Service. All Age Eating Disorder Service is forward thinking in developing care across the age range using evidence based treatments and providing quality, safe and prompt interventions.

We are in the process of delivering our all age model across the whole of the Black Country and are looking for a dynamic dietitian to join our team. The service is part of the FREED network to deliver care for early intervention in the treatment of eating disorders and we are ensuring all of the service will deliver on prompt access and waiting times across the service regardless of age. The service is building its existing pathways around severe enduring eating disorders, ARFID and physical health care.

**Main duties of the job**

Our dietitians provide 1:1 and group interventions to people with a range of eating disorders including ARFID. Dietitians provide a service across the age range and are a central part of the MDT. Offering consultation, training and advice to other professionals both internally and externally to other professionals.
- Providing a highly specialist dietetic service to people receiving treatment from the Trust’s All Age Eating Disorder Service and forming a key element of the treatment care pathways.
- Providing dietetic expertise on the dietary management of eating disorders to medical staff, nursing staff, other health professionals, GPs, external agencies such as local community mental health teams and the dietetic department.
- Supervising dietetic students within the Eating Disorders Service.
- Supporting the development of dietetics within the Eating Disorders Service.

**Working for our organisation**

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley

**Person specificationessentialEssential criteria**
- substantial transferable dietetic skills
- registered dietitian
- managing high risk patients
- awareness of MEED
- experience of delivering training

**Desirable criteria**
- substantial eating disorders experience

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £35,392.00-£42,618.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Childcare
- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Free or subsidised travel
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme
- Relocation assistance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Transport links
- UK visa sponsorship

**Experience**:

- managing high risk patients: 1 year (required)
- delivering training: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- qualification and registered dietitian (required)
- substantial transferable dietetic skills (required)
- awareness of MEED (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 285-9209B-CYPF