Prescribing Support Dietitian

3 weeks ago


Harlow, United Kingdom NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (468) Full time

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian with good nutrition knowledge and experience, to work mostly in West Essex. You will be managed by our Prescribing Support Consultant Dietitian and work within a small friendly & supportive team of dietitians covering the ICS geography of West Essex and Hertfordshire. The organisation encourages flexible working.

Our overall aim is to ensure that patients in the whole of Hertfordshire & West Essex are offered excellent NHS care that borrows and adapts the best work from elsewhere and that helps us in our ongoing quest to provide the best quality services that we can for our ICS population.

Key outcome areas include:

Supporting primary care to improve prescribing of oral nutritional supplements Supporting primary care to improve prescribing of Specialist infant formulas (CMPA) Working with community dietetics to support use of a 'whole care home approach' Working with GP practices to de-prescribe some vitamin supplements

There is scope for the right person to develop the role.

You will be working in a learning organisation and in a team that strives to support all staff to grow and to develop.

Main duties of the job

Able to assess and treat a specialist caseload, manages this through audit, assessment and training of champions in GP practices and beyond Acts as an advanced clinical dietitian, leading for several specialist areas Develops and implements local guidelines across nutrition and dietetics. This includes significant liaison with staff in acute services, community services and primary care - great influencing skills are a key part of the role Provides specialist dietetic advice to the PMOT team and ICB GP practices Undertakes training and research The post holder will support the Head of Department and their team to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery. The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the main responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

Knowledge, skills and behaviour

Essential

HCPC registered dietitian Qualifications equivalent to dietetic degree Undergraduate Degree/2 year Post-Graduate Diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics Evidence of continued professional development Demonstrated experience in an NHS Healthcare environment Concise and Clear communication Skills Highly developed presentation skills (using Powerpoint) Ability to analyse and reflect on very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.

Desirable

Student Clinical Educators Course Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
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