Nutritionist

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Service**

1. To provide individual, group and psychoeducation nutrition services in line with service specifications.

2. Provide comprehensive assessment of nutritional needs and management of a case work of service users by assessing their health, sleep, exercise levels and relationship with food.

3. To evaluate and make decisions collaboratively with service users and explain the effects of nutrients on overall health to help shape the individuals developmental needs.

4. Offer counselling and suggest positive alterations in nutrition to address service users eating disorder behaviours.

5. Create full and personalised nutrition plans that benefits the individual taking regard for the socioeconomic and cultural requirements.

6. Set clear objectives and provide support to clients to help them in their progress.

7. To exercise professional responsibility for the treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans, including communication with the referral agent and others involved in the care team.

8. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with other NHS services to safeguard and ensure the quality of care of the service user and where appropriate care givers.

9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to work in collaboration with other services to manage risks identified.

10. To work with the Clinical Programme Manager to manage a case load of service users.

11. To coach and mentor a team of Specialist Support Officers, Peer Support Workers.

12. To communicate and give feedback in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress and reporting requirements.

13. To provide consult and advise on service user progress through attendance at team referral and multidisciplinary review meetings.

14. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice through a recognised governing body, as well as organisation policies and procedures.

15. Delivering nutrition education and materials in schools and building relationships with our support agencies.

16. To work as a full and active member of the multidisciplinary team.

**Training, and Supervision**

1. To receive regular clinical, professional, and managerial supervision and where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues and line managers as appropriate.

2. To attend post-qualification training (CPD) opportunities and contribute to the coaching of trainee counselling students attached to the service, as appropriate and in consultation with the Clinical Programme Manager.

3.To undertake training and provide training (e.g., CBT, peer support) for other qualified and unqualified staff, user groups and volunteers as required and commensurate with experience.

4. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional competencies.

**Management, policy and service development**

1. To contribute to the evaluation and monitoring of organisational practices and policy within the service.

2. To provide and maintain adequate statistics and records of work as required by the organisation.

3. Exercises delegated responsibility for the safe, appropriate use of care plan material and other equipment deployed in the post holders area of duty. Inform managers of equipment and resources needed to maintain work undertaken and any shortcomings with these.

4. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists and nutritionists.

5. To contribute to the development of Services in discussion with the Clinical Programme Manager.

6. To represent your field and attend relevant meetings and professional activities by agreement with the Clinical Programme Manager.

7. To inform the Clinical Programme Manager of those aspects of the service where nutrition and/or organisational matters need addressing.

**Research and service evaluation**

1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature to support evidence-based practice in individual work with other team members and colleagues within supervision groups.

2. To undertake service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.

**General and Professional**

1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).

2. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by