Specialty Dietitian

This post will deliver high quality care to patients treated in the 23-bedded hyper-acute stroke unit and the early supportive discharge service. The OUH stroke service has been awarded SSNAP Level A for the past 2 quarters demonstrating quality of care and commitment to excellence.

This post supports the general medical caseload, including the complex medical, respiratory, infectious diseases, specialist surgery and trauma, and is key to developing and clinically supporting our rotational Band 5s.

**As a valued member of our team, you will receive**:
Flexible working, including opportunities for home working
Clinical supervision and support from experienced and specialist dietitians
Dedicated time for professional and service development
Regular appraisals and personalised development plan
Access to a range of CPD opportunities, the Oxford AHPs Research & Innovation Unit, and Bodleian Library collection.
Support for further academic study related to speciality and/or service delivery

To have responsibility for providing a dietetic service to patients treated within the OUH. This involves working as an integral member of the dietetic team to provide a flexible, prioritised service based on clinical need.

To contribute to the provision of a specialist, evidence based dietetic service to:

- Hyper-acute Stroke Unit inpatients
- Patients under the Early Supportive Discharge service
- Complex inpatients on the general medical dietetic caseload, including patients on the complex medical unit, trauma, respiratory, infectious diseases, specialist surgery and ambulatory care.
- General outpatient clinics

To contribute to the broader dietetics service provision by delivering dietetic care/cover to other clinical areas when required.

To perform nutritional assessment and consider clinical diagnoses of patients, who may have complex and/or chronic presentations, determine dietetic treatment indicated, monitor and evaluate treatment and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.

To provide tailored dietetic advice, teaching and training for all members of the MDT, dietitians, students, healthcare providers, patients and carers in all aspects of nutrition and dietetics.

Develop and clinically supervise the band 5s on rotation, and the Stroke Dietetic and Nutritional Assistants.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To provide a high quality and comprehensive nutrition and dietetic service to the acute stroke and complex medicine units (and in patients homes, where appropriate, for those under the early supportive discharge service).

2. To support the provision of General Outpatient clinic cover by triaging referrals, delivering clinics when required and supervision of the Band 5 cover for the general clinics

3. To liaise closely with other members of the multi disciplinary teams - actively contributing to a coordinated, evidence based and multidisciplinary approach to patient care.

4. Contribute to the delivery of the stroke care pathway in Oxfordshire. Work closely with other dietitians working in this clinical area across the county linking in closely with other specialist stroke dietitians

5. To be a resource/contact for other dietitians/nurses in the areas of nutrition support in medicine, elderly care / frailty and stroke.

6. To contribute to the development of the nutrition policy, protocols and guidelines for this clinical area.

7. To clinically supervise the Stroke Nutritional Assistant, Therapies Assistant and Band 5 Dietitians, along with other dietitians and S

8. To audit practice, produce progress reports and make recommendations for the future development of the clinical areas.

9. To be actively involved in teaching / training sessions to medical/nursing staff and other health professionals.

10. To be actively contribute to the delivery of dietetic student training

11. To actively participate in reflective practice.

12. Attend regular ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings and clinical governance meetings.

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