Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

To provide specialist dietetic assistant assessment and treatment programmes to adult patients in St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit (52 bed inpatient physical health rehab until) their own homes and care homes.
- To be able to justify and explain nutritional status and to formulate individualised treatment plans and deliver appropriate interventions.
- To follow local policies and guidance regarding appropriate prescribing practices
- To provide training, support and guidance on nutritional screening and prescribing practices
- To contribute to Nutritional Support and Enteral Tube Feeding service development, including the development of appropriate strategies, policies and guidelines.
- To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own clinical work and practice through the use of evidence-based projects, practice development work, audit and outcome measures.
- To be responsible for own delegated caseload of clients who are at risk of malnutrition, malnourished or enterally fed and maintain associated records.
- To provide dietetic support without supervision for delegated patients with ongoing nutritional needs requiring follow up and assessment of their compliance with recommendations and advice
- To support dietitians in treatment and management programmes to ensure the identified needs of the individual are met at all stages of the rehabilitation process or disease progression.
- To reiterate education and advice given to patients by dietitians in order to facilitate self-management of their condition and optimise their rehabilitation potential and quality of life.
- To provide organisation and management of the electronic ordering of home enteral tube feeding products, liaising with dietitians, patients, carer and nutrition nurses to provide the correct equipment promptly
- To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
- To support in the development of new initiatives within the community dietetic service.
- To be an active member of the multidisciplinary team working collaboratively with other members of the team and recognising the skills and expertise of others.
- To be proactive in personal professional development.
- To maintain clinical records as an autonomous practitioner.
- To maintain positive working relationships with counterparts at local acute trusts to support seamless transfer of care between organisations.

Camden Nutrition and Dietetics Service provides nutritional assessment, dietary advice and support to you and your family/carer.

We help you to manage your food intake and provide nutrition advice to help you understand the impact of diet on your health and wellbeing, helping people live longer, healthier lives.

We also deliver individual and group services, providing therapeutic diets to educate and promote lifestyle changes

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

Clinical
- To have responsibility for providing a dietetic support service including assisting in dietary assessment and treatment to adult residents in their own homes, nursing homes and intermediate care unit requiring food fortification advice, nutritional supplementation or enteral tube feeding support.
- To reiterate nutrition support advice (including enteral feeding, oral nutrition supplementation) to clients and their carers. This may involve explaining the dietitian’s nutritional diagnosis and assessment, use of evidence-based guidelines and treatment plans.
- To be able to recommend food fortification strategies to meet nutritional requirements or assess compliance with oral nutrition supplements or enteral feed regimes.
- To use electronic ordering system for enteral tube feeding equipment and feeds.
- To be first point of contact for changes to be made to electronic ordering system for enteral feeding regimes.
- To be competent to give advice to patients and their carers on recommended use of all enteral feeding equipment, trouble shooting advice and when further support is necessary, liaising with Abbott Nutrition Nurse as appropriate.
- To assess, identify clinical risks and make appropriate referral on to qualified clinical staff.
- To assist in the delivery of patient educational sessions to patient groups as directed
- To support patients who have received complex and sensitive information, to gain consent, ensure understanding of condition, treatment options, risks, acceptance and compliance with dietary treatment, which may include unwelcome or difficult to accept information e.g. life time adherence to artificial diet or limitations of treatment in terminal illness.
- To take part in multi-disciplinary / multi-agency collaborative workings to promote continuity of care.
- To use clinical judge

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