Employer: Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Camborne Redruth Community Hospital
Town: Redruth
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Dependent on experience
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59
Band 6
Job overview
If you are a compassionate and caring individual, with a strong desire to maximise the quality of life for people in the community with an artificial feeding tube, then this could be the role you are looking for!
Our small team is dedicated to providing expert dietetic support & advice to adults with enteral tubes in situ across the beautiful county of Cornwall. Within the role there is the opportunity to obtain competencies for care of feeding tubes and stoma sites, enabling a practical level of dietetic input.
Main duties of the job
The adult HEF dietetic caseload comprises of around 135 patients, with a wide range of clinical conditions. You will be responsible for providing a responsive & competent dietetic service, working closely with multi-disciplinary teams as and where possible, to ensure a holistic, collaborative, and all-encompassing approach.
You will be expected to complete face to face, telephone or virtual assessments to gather nutritional and other information to enable you to create suitable feeding regimens appropriate for that individual patient. Monitoring progress and making relevant adjustments depending on clinical presentation but also considering practicalities and other factors is key to ensuring a successful feeding care plan and achieving a happy service user!
For all of the caseload we aim to provide a streamlined service that best meets peninsula and local HEF dietetic standards. Communication between various healthcare professionals both within the community and acute services is essential to provide our service, thus is a key skill required for the role.
Liaising with the contracted feed company via the online registration system to place and monitor feed/equipment orders as well as linking directly with feed company nurses is an important part of the daily tasks.
We work closely with the gastrostomy specialist dietitian and have the opportunity to work towards obtaining competencies with gastrostomy tubes and stoma sites, thus extending our dietetic role.
Working for our organisation
Sustainability is integral to the Trust achieving the NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
* Identity Checks
* Professional registration and qualification checks
Minimum Requirements
* Degree in Nutrition/Dietetics or equivalent
* Health Professions Council (HPC) Registration as a Dietitian
* Current UK Drivers License
* Advanced certificate in counselling skills or counselling experience
* PENG course in clinical nutrition
* Member of the British Dietetic Association
* A teaching qualification or experience teaching groups
* Attendance of the BDA course of Advancing Dietetics in Learning Disabilities
Experience
* Extensive and wide range of post registration dietetic experience in a health care setting.
* Experience of delivering dietetic service to complex enteral tube feed patients.
* Experience of delivering dietetic services in the community.
* Experience of providing a dietetic service to clients with learning disabilities.
Practical & Intellectual Skills
* Evidence of being able to demonstrate best dietetic practice for a range of conditions.
* Evidence of being able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, using differing medias.
* Evidence of being able to work effectively within teams & independently where appropriate.
* Evidence of being able to evaluate and report on complex data.
* Evidence of knowledge of and participation with Clinical Governance.
* Evidence of having the ability to assess success and write reports.
* Car driver with the ability to travel between sites and to patients’ homes in a timely manner and as required by role.
* Advanced skills in creating enteral feeding regimens for complex patients in challenging situations.
* Experience and knowledge of a range of feeding tubes.
* Experience and knowledge of how to manage different feeding tubes.
* Experience and knowledge how to care for gastrostomy stomas.
* Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and application of it to dietetic practice.
* Ability to be flexible as role requires.
* Able to prioritise effectively.
* Able to work independently, seeking support as required.
Thank you for your application. If you have not received a reply within 21 days of the closing date, you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please be aware that your application and related documents will be retained confidentially for a period of 12 months.
It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require a visa - we may be able to provide sponsorship, but this is not guaranteed.
Benefits include optional pension and life assurance and a dedicated Childcare Co-ordination Team.
We are committed to ensuring our staff are developed, engaged and supported to work in different ways to support the ever-changing environment in which we operate.
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is a non-smoking organisation.
Should you require an alternative format of this application form (such as Braille, audio or large print), please telephone 01872 255755.
In submitting an application form, you authorise Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority.
Royal Cornwall Hospital is an Equal Opportunities employer.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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