Diabetes Specialist Dietitian

There will be opportunities to deliver diabetes structured education for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and to train other healthcare professionals. The post holder will be trained as an X-PERT educator if you do not already hold the accreditation. As part of an exciting collaboration in place with the Modality primary care network we are delivering a low carbohydrate diet programme, and the post holder will contribute to this innovative and exciting area of practice.

We would consider Band 5 applicants as a development post progressing to Band 6 upon meeting development targets.

Part time hours also considered.

The diabetes team within the Nutrition and Dietetics Service provides dietetic support to adults with pre-diabetes and diabetes. We work in hospital and community settings throughout Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven. We are committed to providing a comprehensive and patient centred service to our patients. Structured education programmes are available to all people with diabetes and these are co-delivered by Diabetes Specialist Dietitians & Diabetes Specialist Nurses. The service operates core hours of 08.30 - 16.30 however some clinics and education groups operate outside of these times.

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our ‘Right Care’ behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

Job Summary
- To prioritise, plan and deliver clinical case work within diabetes dietetic services
- Provide a key role in partnership working with patients, carers, the MDT, and wider statutory, private and voluntary sector services.
- To support team members in ensuring the effective functioning of the team
- To actively participate in quality improvements to improve dietetic services for adults with diabetes
- Provide support to the team leader deputising for them as required
- Provide effective student training and development

In pursuing these duties the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and the Trust’s Right Care strategy.

**Principle Duties and Responsibilities**:
1. Clinical
- Provide timely and efficient diabetes dietetic services to patients according to clinical protocols and service priorities.
- Ensure patients receive a high standard of clinical care and that you meet the standards expected from the British Dietetic Association and Health Care Professions Council.
- Use investigative and analytical skills to undertake a comprehensive, specialist dieteticassessment of the patient.
- Reflect on complex facts gathered or situations presented and use analysis

and judgment skills to consider options for interventions, and outcomes.
- Formulate individual management and treatment plans, using advanced clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills
- Plan and implement specialist dietetic interventions/care packages in partnership with the service user, with the carer as necessary and in consultation with colleagues.
- Plan and organise to carry out assessment and interventions in the most appropriate setting.
- Monitor and evaluate the outcome of specialist interventions in partnership with the service user if possible, with the carer if necessary and in consultation with colleagues.
- Collaborate with the MDT to develop and improve patient pathways.
- Respond to unforeseen situations that take precedence over planned work.
- Provide advice, teaching and instruction for relatives, carers, and other health professionals to promote understanding of the aims of the Nutrition and Dietetics Service and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
- Provide specialist advice to therapy and dietetic colleagues working within other clinical areas across the Trust.
- Train and supervise other dietitians, dietetic assistants and students. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation.
- Use highly developed communication skills to establish good working relationships with colleagues, service users and carers.
- Use verbal and non-verbal communication skills and sensitivity with patients, relatives and carers to overcome barriers to communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain, anxiety, tracheotomy, problems with cognition.
- Deal effectively with complex, sensitive or contentious communications
- Specific
- To provide a dietetic service into GP practices
- To attend multi-disciplinary team meetings in diabetes as required
- To provide structured