Dietetic Assistant Practitioner

2 days ago

Bedford, Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the oncology dietetics team at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Dietetic Assistant Practitioner. The successful candidate will play a vital role in supporting the team to deliver high-quality patient care.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage a caseload of non-complex oncology patients, providing comprehensive assessments and developing personalized nutrition plans.
  • Support service improvement projects, working closely with the dietitians and team lead to drive positive change.
  • Contribute to the effective running of the oncology dietetics service, ensuring seamless communication with healthcare professionals and patients.
  • Act as the first point of contact for patients, health/social care professionals, and members of the public with queries regarding oncology dietetics.
  • Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, organizing workload effectively and efficiently.
  • Work as an autonomous practitioner, prioritizing own workload and developing a basic knowledge of evidence-based practice.
  • Undertake comprehensive assessments, using clinical reasoning skills to set nutritional goals and negotiate dietary interventions with patients and their carers.
  • Make recommendations for appropriate prescription of nutritional products, ensuring adequate monitoring and review of patients.
  • Communicate effectively with healthcare professionals, inputting referrals onto the oncology electronic patient record system and making follow-up arrangements.
  • Support dietitians in making suitable arrangements for patients requiring home enteral feeding, including ordering feed products and ancillaries.
  • Recognize and act appropriately if vulnerable patients are at risk or deemed to be in need.
  • Maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records, providing statistics of patient contacts in a timely fashion.
  • Liaise with healthcare professionals within the oncology service, the wider community, and across the network.
  • Communicate non-complex, specialized, and sensitive information with empathy and understanding to patients and their carers or other family members.
  • Take appropriate action using problem-solving skills to assist patients, health, and social care professionals, and members of the public with queries relating to oncology.
  • Work as an integral part of the oncology dietetics team, supporting other dietetics teams and working alongside the wider multi-disciplinary team.
  • Plan, deliver, evaluate, and develop training and education sessions to patient and multi-disciplinary staff groups.
  • Work within Trust, departmental, HCPC, and BDA clinical and professional guidelines, policies, and procedures.
  • Support the clinical lead in ensuring guidelines relating to oncology are fully implemented across the department/MDT.
  • Report information required for managing and monitoring the service, including referral numbers, key performance indicators, waiting list management, prioritization of caseloads, DNA rates, outcome measures, and user satisfaction surveys.
  • Participate in audit, research, and service evaluations to help deliver improvement in service delivery and clinical practice.
  • Work with colleagues to help the Trust meet the CQC standards for nutrition.
  • Be responsible for maintaining own development and competency to practice through CPD activities.
  • Participate in and contribute to the organizing and delivery of the department's CPD programme.
  • Be an active member of the department by attending and presenting at staff meetings, attending tutorials and training sessions.
  • Participate in the department appraisal scheme and be responsible for complying with agreed Personal Development Plans to meet knowledge and competencies.
  • Participate in regular supervision.
  • Support the induction and recruitment of new staff members within the oncology dietetics team.
  • Be responsible for the supervision of students during their placement.
  • Comply with the lone worker policy.
  • Work flexibly to support the oncology dietetics team.
  • Provide cover for other wards/departments at short notice to cover unplanned and planned absences within the post holder's competency and skill level.
  • Undertake any other duties as identified by the team lead as required for the successful delivery of the oncology dietetics service.

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