Highly Specialist Community Nutrition Support

3 weeks ago


Rochdale, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced dietitian to join our dynamic and friendly community Nutrition Support Team in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, which sits within the Integrated Neighbourhood Team. The senior managers in the care organisation in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale are inclusive, friendly and encourage innovation.

You will work as an autonomous practitioner within in a variety of settings including community clinics, care and nursing homes and patients own homes. Leading on clinical governance and service development would be part of this role.

You will provide supervision for staff within the community dietetic team and will also undertake the role of lead for student training.

As an organisation we encourage flexible working and there are opportunities within this role to work from home.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will work with patients across a range of specialities including enteral tube feeding, gastro -intestinal cancers (head and neck, oesophageal, gastric, pancreatic), complex respiratory conditions, motor neurone disease, adverse symptom management and severe malnutrition.

We are involved in the training of student dietitians and staff development is a high priority. We are committed to work-based education and training to improve clinical skills and we actively encourage CPD and audits.

**Working for our organisation**:
Rochdale Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place destined to be
different. Rochdale puts co-operation and co-design at the forefront of its health and social care. This is the place with community based
integrated care at its heart. Rochdale Infirmary, and the adult and children’s community services across Heywood Middleton and Rochdale,
consists of professionals from health, social and voluntary sectors. A place leading the way in life-enhancing, integrated care.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Education / Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered as a Dietitian with the HCPC

**Desirable criteria**:

- Membership of the BDA

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Relevant clinical experience of enteral feeding and oral nutrition support
- Awareness of the HCPC Standards of conduct, performance and ethic and standards of proficiency
- Experience of dietary management within a defined area
- Well - developed communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
- Ability to convey complex information in an understandable way

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Understanding of clinical governance
- Knowledge of different ethnic cultures and religions
- Excellent knowledge of enteral feeding
- Health and safety risk awareness

**Skills and Abilities**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Good team working skills
- Well-developed communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
- Computing Skills (word processing, internet, data inputting, dietary analysis)
- Ability to convey complex information in an understandable way
- Anthropometric measurement skills
- Ability to work autonomously within code of practice with peer support
- Evidence of service and project development

**Work Related Circumstances**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to travel across Northern care alliance sites to meet patient need, access training and attend meetings
- To understand and adhere to relevant Trust policies and procedures including data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety

**Desirable criteria**:

- Membership of relevant professional groups

**COVID-19 Vaccination Information**
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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.


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