Site: Northfield House, Kettering General Hospital
Town: Kettering
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 05/12/2024
Job overview
The work will involve supporting the dietitians who work on the adult wards at Kettering General Hospital. You will support referral management and triage, complete nutritional assessment of patients and review care plans put in place by the dietitian. You will work closely with the dietitians and there will be an opportunity for you to support student and staff training in the MDT and become involved in dietetic promotions and campaigns.
This role is within our large, friendly, motivated countywide dietetic service. We provide a clinical dietetic service to patients and health and social care professionals across Northamptonshire. Within this, we have a service within Kettering General Hospital, providing direct care for inpatients that have been identified at nutritional risk.
Main duties of the job
1. Leading on the management of the referral for patients requiring dietetic intervention using the established referral process. This will include accepting the referral and when indicated communicating back to the referrer, registering the patient onto the system and prioritising based on level of nutritional risk. Clinical decision making without direct supervision is required but you will have access to advice and support from senior staff.
2. Discussing and documenting the individual’s treatment plan and their related condition/illness without supervision from the dietitian. You will liaise with the care team and deliver specific interventions and/or treatments within the plan and plan for safe and effective discharge. You will identify specific precautions or contraindications to the proposed interventions/treatments and take the appropriate action.
3. Communicating with nutritional companies and the hospital procurement to request products.
4. Supporting service evaluations, audit, and service improvement work.
5. Being involved in promoting the dietetic department and supporting themed weeks on nutrition to promote learning and engagement across the hospital.
6. Inputting patient diet history records for computer dietary analysis, using knowledge of food portion sizes and calorific values of foods to ensure accurate results are achieved on a daily basis. Store new foods into dietary analysis program for further use.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development, and growth.
Person specification
1. Experience of dealing with the public, especially when need to adapt practice to meet complex needs.
Professional and communication skills
1. Demonstrates a competent range of communication skills and ability to organise own time, prioritise, show initiative, and commitment to learning.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
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