To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own clinical caseload and to manage the clinical risk within own caseload. The post holder is wholly accountable for their practice in line with the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics. To be responsible for maintaining own capability and competency to practice through CPD activities and recognise the limits of individual competence and knowledge, undertake further training and academic qualifications as relevant to the role and service requirements, integrating new knowledge into current practice. Take responsibility for personal and professional updating and development, including mandatory training. To manage patients with complex nutritional needs along their clinical pathway, formulating expert clinical opinion in order to; recommend best course of nutritional intervention, to reassess and progress treatments accordingly in order to develop, inform and influence discharge plans, to advise and plan further nutritional management elsewhere. This will require the interpretation and analysis of complex clinical information and consideration of the suitability of various treatment options. To maintain highly developed physical skills where a high degree of precision and high levels of hand, eye and sensory co-ordination are essential. This may include procedures such as nasal gastric feeding tubes. To take action where patients fail to meet expected milestones in their recovery, and, escalate concerns where patients nutritional needs are not met, working with members of the MDT to create innovative, bespoke solutions in order to optimise patient nutrition. Participate in the appraisal process and maintain a professional portfolio which supports reregistration. To ensure that, as an individual practitioner, the post holder maintains timely and effective communication with the Head of Therapies e.g. changes that my impact the delivery of Dietetic services, including staffing levels