Job overview

Stroke Rehabilitation dietetics working across acute and community teams, is this the role for you ? A unique opportunity has arisen to support the patient journey from acute inpatient admission to community intervention and discharge.

The successful candidate would be part of an enthusiastic and dynamic integrated  dietetic team and enjoy strong MDT working with the wider community team including the stroke MDT, community nurses, specialist nurses and medicine management team.

You would be based at Leighton Hospital working  across acute wards and Mid Cheshire community footprint providing clinical intervention, education and training on the acute stroke ward and following up the patient to their own homes, nursing homes or via  virtual contacts. This post offers the opportunity for a dietitian to further develop their clinical skills in enteral feeding and nutritional support whilst maintaining core therapeutic dietetic knowledge.

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous practitioner to deliver specialist dietetic services to the acute stroke unit at Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, as part of the acute adult dietetic team and home visits to review patients as part of the community stroke rehabilitation team across South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs.

To formulate, deliver and monitor nutritional care plans for referred patients. This would include highly complex clinical conditions and diet therapy, across the acute stroke unit and community stroke rehabilitation settings.

To be recognised as an expert source of nutritional knowledge in the field of stroke care, contributing to development of clinical guidelines, resources and education packages.

The department encourages innovation and supports continuous professional development. We have embraced paperless working in the community and are moving forward with a digital clinical system project for acute services. We are supported with enhanced IT facilities.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.