Senior Dietitian and Nutrionist

Quest Prehab Project - JOB PROFILE

D ESIGNATION Time Bank Senior Dietitian (Part Time)

C ommitment (2 hours per week)

D EPARTMENT Kent and Medway Prehab Project

RESPONSIBLE TO Clinical Director

Salary £12-15/hour negotiable based on experience

1. MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

To guide and deliver multimodal Prehabilitation programme to newly diagnosed patients with cancer.

The role will provide a dietetic service to newly diagnosed cancer patients triaged and referred across the service. Allocated areas of work will depend on experience.
Our service is a dynamic, well-established team with support from clinicians, physiologists, counsellors and academic colleagues.

Duties comprise but are not exhaustive: o Following the Kent and Medway Prehabilitation guidance and protocols of exercise planning and delivery. o Competence and familiarisation with digital health tools is essential. o Delivery of sessions via Telehealth. o Delivery of group-based live sessions via tele health. o Deliver dietetic support for patients triaged and referred via Prehab Physiologists.

Attendance when requested by Senior Exercise Physiologist at local meetings and events to promote Kent and Medway Prehabilitation.

The post holder will be expected to deliver live stream of small group-based education classes, requiring group facilitation skills as well as excellent engagement, IT and verbal communication skills. Tasks will also include contacting patients to arrange suitable appointment and session times and if necessary, data collection around the sessions. These sessions will be delivered by Zoom though may move to face-to-face delivery in the next year.

2. ACCOUNTABILITY

Answerable to the Operations Lead of the Kent and Medway Prehab Project.

3. PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

A degree or postgraduate qualification in dietetics or human nutrition, accredited by t he British Dietetic Association
Evidence of recent continuous professional development

Desirable o Experience working within a multidisciplinary team. o Excellent team working o Experience of delivering specialist programmes such cancer rehabilitation.

**Skills**:
Essential o Excellent communication skills o Excellent group and one-to-one Telehealth exercise facilitation skills o Excellent ability to manage time effectively, planning own workload and setting appropriate objectives and deadlines o Ability to think about alternative ways of doing things and being open to new work practices and responsive to change o Experience using video conferencing services (i.e zoom) and spreadsheets (i.e

Microsoft Office suite of software)

Personal Qualities

Essential o Ability to understand of how teams work with other services and takes a proactive approach towards helping other in the team o Commitment to equality and diversity, accepting differences and treating everyone fairly o Demonstratable experience of coping well under pressure and difficult situations, able to identify and act on own development needs

4. ORGANISATION

I. HOW AND BY WHOM THE POST IS MANAGED

The Operations Lead will line manage the post holder.

II. LEVEL OF INITIATIVE AND/OR INDEPENDENCE EXPECTED OF THE POST HOLDER

The post holder will be predominantly expected to work independently, in accordance with the project guidance making clinical judgements on individuals’ clinical needs. They will have weekly contact with the Supervising Operations Lead to have clinical discussions and feedback on work patterns but the Managing

Director will be available for consultation.

Attendance at Weekly sessions with Managing Director for operations and strategy meetings is expected.

III. SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

They may have supervisory responsibility for volunteers who may assist the programme and academic interns but no management responsibility for team members

5. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

They will have no financial accountabilities.

6. WORKING ENVIRONMENT

The post holder will be working part time 2 hours a week. These hours may be in the evenings and weekends. Any aberrations or deviations with the agreed work pattern will have to be agreed in advance.

7. SAFEGUARDING AND PROTECTING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS

All Staff are required to complete mandatory safeguarding adults training relevant to their position and role and take ownership of ensuring this is kept updated.

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 2 per week

**Salary**: £12.00-£15.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

**Experience**:

- Registered Dietitian: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- HCPC (preferred)

Work Location: Remote

Reference ID: PT D&N