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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

To manage a caseload of complex paediatric patients – includes home enteral tube feeding, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). Providing dietetic reviews in community clinic, day centres, home visit, special needs schools and jointly with consultants/other healthcare professionals.

To undertake comprehensive assessments for patients, including anthropometrics, biochemistry, clinical condition, diet history and social circumstances and to use advanced clinical reasoning skills to interpret data.

To provide appropriate evidence based intervention and evaluate outcomes. 

To prioritise and plan the day-to-day provision of dietetic services within your own caseload.

To contribute to the development and implementation of protocols and guidelines for your specialist areas within the service as well as nutrition-related Trust-wide policies.

To work autonomously with little day to day supervision.

 To make timely and appropriate direct referrals to other healthcare professionals and specialist services

 To liaise with dietetic colleagues locally and nationally and other experts to ensure nutritional care, standards, advice and information are consistent with the current evidence base. 

 To work jointly with the other home enteral feeding dietitians and provide cover for the community paediatric dietitians or home enteral feeding team lead in their absence, as required. 

 To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of professions across a variety of locations and agencies. 

  To challenge professional and organisational boundaries in the interest of patients. 

To organise and co-ordinate the process of setting up a home enterally fed patient on the home delivery service following discharge from hospital.

 Contribute to department continuous professional development (CPD) sessions, home enteral tube feeding meetings and MDT caseload meetings. 

 To give expert opinion on complex nutrition related issues where a number of social, ethical, psychological and medical factors have to be considered and where there may be conflicting ideas within the multidisciplinary team

To be responsible for the provision and development of dietetic services in your specialist areas across the Trust, and to be responsible for service change in those specialist areas in response to service requirement.

To be professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.

  To maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records in line with the British Dietetic Association (BDA), HCPC and trust guidelines.

To act promptly in response to any safeguarding concerns identified during patient care.