Dietetic Service Clinical Service Lead for Adults and Children

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Dietetic Service Clinical Service Lead for Adults and Children NHS AfC: Band 8a Main area: Dietitian
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Job ref: 333-G-ECP-0602

Site: Mattock Lane Health Centre
Town: London
Salary: £59,490 - £66,239 per annum incl. HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/04/:00

Job overview Ealing Community Partners has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Nutrition and Dietetics Team Leader to join a team of Dieticians and support practitioners, working with the Head of Children's and Specialist Adult Services to manage a large, diverse and dynamic Nutrition and Dietetics Service. This service is part of Ealing Maximising Independence Service to provide holistic care to adults, children, young people and their families. The service is part of Ealing Community Partners which hosts most of the community health services for the Borough.

This post is a permanent, full time post and would suit a progressive clinician who would like to further develop their leadership and management experience within a supportive team.

The role will involve working with the Head of Service, The Service Manager for Long Term Conditions in West London and the other clinical service leads for adults and children's services within Ealing Community Partners.

The post will focus predominately on the Service development and delivery of Nutrition and Dietician Service.

Main duties of the job

1. To be responsible for the day-to-day planning, management, development, of the dietetic service within Ealing Community.
2. To manage the dietetic service.
3. Lead recruitment and retention within assigned area, monitor absence and deal with performance issues.
4. To provide leadership, support, clinical supervision and develop the members of the Dietetic team.
5. To produce, disseminate and evaluate multi-disciplinary Trust-wide policies, strategies, guidelines, standards and protocols in the area of Nutrition support.
6. To lead in the area of dietetic prescribing and ensure the dietitians are providing feeds appropriately.
7. To lead in the development and provision of specialist training packages; on screening and nutritional support to Trust and other staff, student dietitians, community groups, and health professionals including district nurses, nursing home staff and care workers.
8. To be an exemplary role model to staff.
9. To lead, develop policies, and support advanced clinical decision-making in formulary decisions or setting guidelines for Off FP10 use.

Working for our organisation Central and North West London (CNWL) Trust has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.

Our dieticians give advice on food and nutrition choices. They assess, diagnose and treat dietary and nutritional problems for children and adults who are registered with a GP in the London Borough of Ealing.

The service completes face to face, clinical and care visits to the community of Ealing for children and adults.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities MAIN DUTIES:

1. Clinical

1. To be professionally, legally accountable, and responsible for all aspects of your work.
2. To work autonomously to provide expert dietary advice to patients, carers, nurses, clinicians, dietitians and other health professionals/agencies within and across the Trust regarding nutritional support and the appropriate use of nutritional products.
3. To assess and diagnose nutritional problems including malnourishment, taking anthropometrical measurements, interpreting blood biochemistry results, analysing dietary intake, and calculating nutritional requirements.
4. To develop, deliver and review complex treatment plans.
5. To be responsible for ensuring appropriate authorisation/prescribing of nutritional sip feeds and enteral feeds for patients and recommend products to GPs and medical staff.
6. To communicate complex scientific and sensitive medical information in an understandable form to patients from a wide range of backgrounds, carers and families, tailored to their needs, gain consent, ensure understanding of the condition, treatment options, risks, acceptance and compliance with dietary treatment.
7. To apply highly developed communication, negotiation and counselling skills to facilitate behavioural changes, investigating and accommodating emotional, physical, social and psychological barriers.
8. To be an expert source of information and advice to patients/carers and nursing staff on the use of artificial feeding, care of feeding equipment, stoma site, complications and problem-solving.
9. To promote multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working to ensure continuity of care.
10. To refer to other health professionals/social services when appropriate.
11. To network and work in partnership with established clinical networks.
12. To keep contemporaneous, accurate and comprehensive notes and records for each patient using electronic patient systems.
13. To support, advise and provide clinical supervision to your team members regarding complex patients.

2. Professional

1. To review, critique, develop and advise on up-to-date, accurate nutrition education materials.
2. To work as a team member and attend and contribute to regular departmental meetings, clinical updates and practice supervision.
3. To work under minimal supervision, as a lone worker in the community including at a clinic or, patients' homes, hospitals, community and primary care sites, and nursing and residential homes.
4. To be responsible for managing time effectively, planning, prioritising, assessing risk and organising your own workload.
5. To lead in the area of dietetic prescribing development for Ealing.
6. To respond accurately to nutritional enquiries from the Media and other non-NHS organisations.
7. To be accountable for the effective use of oral nutritional supplements in Ealing.

3. Teaching/Nutrition Education

1. To lead in identifying, assessing, planning and coordinating the delivery of nutritional support training/education.
2. To induct new members of the nutrition support team, Diabetes Education Service and dietetic team.
3. To plan, assess and deliver student training to student dietitians and to other students.
4. To plan, deliver and evaluate health promotion sessions to prevent malnutrition in vulnerable community groups.
5. To provide peer supervision, training and development for your team members and dietetic staff in nutritional support.

4. Management

1. To develop, implement and oversee compliance with the local standard operational procedure's (SOP's) within the Department.
2. To lead the Nutrition and Dietetic service, and line manage the Diabetes education service.
3. To recruit, select and retain your team members including specialist dietitians, nutritional support workers and administrative staff.
4. To provide clinical leadership, supervise, train and develop nutritional support specialist dietitians and nutrition assistants.
5. To work in conjunction with the Ealing Service leads to develop the strategic direction for the service.
6. To monitor absence, and sickness monitoring and deal with performance issues for the Team members.

5. Clinical Governance

1. To lead in the development of audit and research activity within the nutrition support service.
2. To produce and establish updated, evidence-based packages of care, protocols/policies/guidelines/standards/resource materials for the management of nutritional support.
3. To be responsible for equipment in your care.
4. To be responsible for allocating operational and clinical governance tasks to the team.

Person specification Education/ Qualifications

• Health Care Professions Council Registration
• Evidence of post registration education and training and maintaining developmental portfolio
• MSc in Nutrition/Advanced Dietetic Practice or equivalent

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of line management, recruitment and retention . click apply for full job details