MAIN PURPOSE To provide a critical role as Nutritionist, working as a key member of Southwarks community based Service. This integrated service includes weight management services for adults, families and children. The post holder will In line with NICE guidance, be responsible and accountable for the delivery of high quality, evidence-based nutrition advice for children and adults, including those seeking weight loss interventions in one to one and group settings, within the Weight Management Service. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), provide expert advice and support, to ensure excellent patient healthcare and contractual outcomes. Play a pivotal role within an innovative, forward thinking and collaborative multi-disciplinary team and integrated service in Southwark. SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES Provide comprehensive assessment of nutritional needs and patient lifestyle in order to develop care plans to address nutritional needs. Evaluate nutritional needs and on-going support to patients in line with NICE guidance across Tier two to children, young people, adults and families in a group and one to one settings, implementing skills and knowledge of behaviour change theories. Support the nutritional development, delivery, evaluation and quality assurance of the integrated service and provide key nutritional expertise to the multidisciplinary team and other colleagues within the service, ensuring excellent service delivery. Facilitate and empower patients to change behaviour and adopt positive lifestyle changes by providing health education and high quality nutritional counselling regarding healthy eating, helping patients to address barriers to change. To attend multi professional meetings to provide nutrition input regarding management for patients/clients including discharge planning and on-going management whilst respecting professional roles to ensure a supportive and proactive multi-disciplinary team. Support community engagement: build a network of key contacts and undertake networking publicity and promotional activity to raise the profile of the service and to identify and engage with target populations. Accountable for ensuring programme delivery is monitored using validated tools to collect and analyse patient performance outcome measures and evaluation, to ensure that the contractual KPIs are achieved and an excellent service is demonstrated; critical and rigorous implementation of all validated anthropometric measures at key milestones across the services, in line with the Standard Evaluation Framework, ensuring excellent recording, monitoring and reporting on patient outcomes. Utilising iMPACT and other relevant systems and internal reporting procedures to ensure rigorous data collection processes are robust, to evidence service efficacy through generation of excellent health outcome data, contributing to an internal qualitative and quantitative evidence base, and demonstrate best practice and value for money. Keep accurate records and written reports, ensuring patient personal information is recorded in accordance with Everyone Healths and Local Authority policies; Caldicott Guardian, Information Governance, Data Protection and Data Sharing compliance. Assist the development of continual service improvement and client and patient-centred services in accordance with participant feedback, NICE guidance, national and local recommendations, professional competences and SLM policies and procedures, ensuring the service is delivered in line with CQC and HSCICs regulations. Be compliant with all relevant policies, procedures and guidelines; including the appropriate codes of conduct associated with this post; maintain awareness of safeguarding issues, report and acting on concerns in accordance with Everyone Health and Local Authority policies and procedures. Ensure the safety of all patients by undertaking risk assessments, health and safety checks, equipment checks etc., as directed by the Contract Manger and Clinical Lead. Respond to any relevant clinical and colleague issues or incidences to manage a mitigate risk, and maintain best practice. To be responsible and accountable for achievement of relevant contractual targets including referrals, uptake, completion percentage targets and effective outcome measures, through delivery of high standard nutritional care. Actively participate in community engagement to ensure services are delivered efficiently and effectively, targeting priority groups to ensure the successful recruitment and retention of patients within the service. Take responsibility for own CPD and synthesise new knowledge into the development of your own practice, participate in training and continual professional development as required; recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by professional body. To work within the requirements of the 6 Cs: care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment. Ensure that commitment to equality and diversity is reflected at all stages of project planning, delivery and evaluation, in line with agreed service standards. Support in administrative duties related to the patients where necessary, for example letters to referrers, follow up phone calls, motivational text messages as required. Be an ambassador for Everyone Health, promoting the Weight Management Service to members of the public and other stakeholders partners, where appropriate. Contribute to the growth of Everyone Health by working collaboratively with Managers colleagues to develop and have some responsibility for an expanding portfolio of services and products.