Dietician

**Job Title**:Dietician

**Grade**:Opportunities for Band 5 and Band 6

**Department**:Nutrition and Dietetics

**Location**: Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Mandeville Rd, Aylesbury HP21 8AL

Covering Adults General & Acute Med / Surgical ward

**Trust**:Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

**Shift Pattern**:Mon-Friday working - can be flexible on hours. (e.g 3-5 days per week)

**Pay rate**:£17.69-£21.80 excluding Holiday Pay

Are you an experienced dietitian looking for an exciting new opportunity? Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust are currently providing these opportunities within the dietetics team. The trust is delighted to offer the opportunity to a motivated individual who will work with a range of patient including those with adult diabetes and weight management

Working in Buckinghamshire, you will be part of a 6,000-person team of highly trained clinical staff, working with a Trust whose goal is to Collaborate with each other, aspire to be the best, respect everyone, and enable people to take responsibility. The care for a population of 500,000 patients across their 3 hospital sites, local bases and the community. Their stroke service is one of the best in the region, and are a centre for burns and plastics, along with a world famous National Spinal Injuries Centre.

**Main duties of the job**
- To provide dietary advice to patients and carers referred in the acute and community settings, with particular focus on the specialist condition of the patient.
- To make dietary recommendations after calculation of nutritional requirements based on interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, anatomy and physiology, clinical condition/prognosis and other physical parameters. To develop effective dietetic care plans with patient centred goals, and advise on use of prescribable nutritional formulations. To provide appropriate treatment, monitoring and review of patients’ dietary needs.
- To accurately record all assessments and interventions in medical notes, nursing documentation and dietetic records in line with Trust and departmental policies. To communicate in writing with other agencies including GPs, community nurses and dietitians about patient care e.g. prescription requests for nutritional products, home enteral feeding forms.
- To provide dietary advice in dietetic and consultant led clinics
- To work autonomously to effectively time manage and prioritise individual workload, balancing patient caseload and non-patient related work demands. Prepared to work flexibly as a member of multidisciplinary teams.
- To use interviewing and negotiating skills to communicate advice appropriately and effectively to patients, families, carers and health professionals.
- To liaise with home enteral feeding dietitian for patients being discharged with artificial nutrition.
- Working with the dietetic and multidisciplinary teams, to be an educator in diet and nutrition. Communicating appropriately and effectively to plan, deliver, evaluate and develop projects, education sessions, health promotion activities and group activities with patients, carers, families, staff, student and other professionals medical and non-medical. To provide up-to-date dietary information and training, to help improve evidence based and best practice
- To contribute to the planning and provision of relevant clinical support and training for dietetic assistants.
- To be actively involved in the delivery of the under and postgraduate student dietetic training.

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**Person Specification**

**Qualifications**

**Essential**

HCPC Registration & Enhanced DBS

University Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics

**Experience**

**Essential**

Experience of working within the NHS

Experience in assessment and treatment of malnutrition, artificial nutrition support, interpreting anthropometrics and biochemistry; MDT working, discharge planning and onward referral/signposting

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of
- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable.

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