Specialist Community Dietitian - Paediatrics
Are you a Dietitian who has a passion for Paediatrics? If you have not worked in Paediatrics before, you will be fully supported with relevant learning and development opportunities. The trust also has an in-house leadership programme for your leadership development.
With this being a new post, this is an exciting time to join a growing team and shape the Paediatric services for the future in the St Helens and Knowsley region. You will contribute to the development of the service, with a focus on patient experience, quality and evidenced based practice.
The St Helens and Knowsley Dietetics team is a friendly, supportive and integrated team of 14 Community Dietitians and Assistants. You will join a Paediatric Dietetic team of 1 Band 7 Highly Specialist Dietitian, Band 6 Specialist Dietitian and a Dietetic assistant manage a caseload of community outpatient clinics, group sessions, virtual and domiciliary appointments.
The post is based at Whiston Primary Care Resource Centre in Prescot with hybrid working considered. Please do not hesitate to contact the team if you are interested and would like to discuss the role further.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide Dietetic treatment for paediatrics based in community settings with an emphasis on faltering growth, fussy eating, nutrition support and home enteral tube feeding, cow's milk protein allergy, other allergies and general clinics.
The successful candidate will manage a caseload along with the other specialist dietitians and be supported by the highly specialist Paediatric lead. You will have the opportunity to consolidate and develop clinical skills needed to manage nutritionally complex patients requiring both enteral and oral nutrition support. You will have regular clinical supervision and support in your role an opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills and career pathway.
The role involves the ability to work autonomously and flexibly across Knowsley and St Helens, prioritising your caseload appropriately. You will help with triaging referrals and be able to be involved in key projects and service developments within the team.
Job responsibilities
1. Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team.
2. Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders etc., to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
3. Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
4. Contribute to working groups across Mersey Care lead by the AHP professional lead to develop the home enteral feeding service.
5. Attend quarterly home enteral feeding contract meetings to review KPIs and service delivery of home enteral feeding contract.
6. Have line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client care.
7. Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
8. Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
9. Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
10. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
11. Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
12. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
13. Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex situations.
14. Manage a caseload of complex oral nutrition support and home enteral feeding patients.
15. Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
16. Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
17. Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
18. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
19. Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
20. Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
21. Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.
22. Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested.
23. Participate in audits and research, as required.
24. Participate in individual and group supervision.
25. Implement mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
26. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
27. Initiate training and development of team members.
28. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery, including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping.
29. Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service lead.
30. Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
31. Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidenced based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.
32. Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
33. Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
34. Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
35. Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement, and development.
36. The post holder shall, as necessary, provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
37. The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person Specification
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Qualifications
* BSc. Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant degree with postgraduate diploma in Dietetics
* Current Health and Care Professions Council Registration for Dietetics
* Full member of the British Dietetic Association
* Completion of parenteral and enteral nutrition group (PENG) course
* Management and clinical leadership course or qualification
Knowledge / Experience
* Experience of successful multi-agency working
* Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
* Understanding of partnership working
* Understanding of the principles of care management
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
* Work based experience
* Management and clinical leadership experience
Skills
* Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries
* Self-management and motivation skills
* IT literate
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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