Job summary
- Main area
- Community HEF Dietician
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (0.52wte Starting 25.03.2024)
- Hours
- Part time - 19.5 hours per week (19.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 216-AM-C5855193
- Employer
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Estover Health Centre
- Town
- PLYMOUTH
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Community Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian
Band 6
Job overview
To deliver specialist dietetic clinical care to adult patients requiring home enteral tube feeding within Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and the community it serves.
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
Main duties of the job
The post holder manages own caseload of adult HETF patients within their home setting including nursing and residential homes
Working for our organisation
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We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.
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If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100.
We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams.
It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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o To be professionally responsible and accountable for the management of own clinical caseload and to organise this effectively with regards to clinical priority and effective use of time in a variety of settings.
o To work autonomously to provide highly complex advice to adult patients with highly complex medical and surgical conditions that are reliant on artificial nutrition support in the community. This will involve nutritional assessment (based on interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition and dietary history) and development of nutritional care plans which are both realistic, practical and evidence based (based on assessment of medical, social, economic, cultural and psychological factors).
o To assess and interpret the medical diagnoses and changes in medical conditions and treatment plans of individual patients requiring artificial nutrition support and understand how it affects nutritional management.
o To formulate feeding regimens based on medical condition, fluid management, biochemical and anthropometric monitoring.
o May be required to undertake an extended role that uses specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and experience in the care of enteral feeding tubes. This may involve removal and replacement of balloon retained gastrostomy tubes as required.
o To have an awareness of tube site complications and to alert appropriate health care professionals to these complications if detected.
o To respond to urgent complex problems with enteral feeding tubes e.g. accidental removal or blockages. Where possible to provide or arrange emergency replacement of balloon retained gastrostomy devices or emergency assistance to clear blocked enteral feeding tubes in order to prevent hospital admissions.
o To provide training to patients and carers on the correct procedures of care for their enteral feeding tube.
o To maintain knowledge and awareness of guidelines for correct administration of medicines via enteral feeding tubes and where appropriate to liaise with the medicines management pharmacist for patient medication review.
o To attend relevant multidisciplinary meetings in order to provide expert advice to clinicians regarding provision of appropriate nutrition support interventions based on clinical evidence.
- For further details please see attached JD&PS.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Human Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent qualification
- HCPC registered
Desirable criteria
- Completion of validated post registration training e.g. PENG course
Aptitiude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to communicate with all levels of healthcare personnel as well as patients and their carers
- Demonstrable expertise in the practical skills of nutritional support
Desirable criteria
- Ability to lift feeding equipment / deliver feeding supplies to patients
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration dietetic demonstrable experience in home enteral feeding
- Training/supervisory demonstrable experience.
Desirable criteria
- Extended Role competencies in enteral tube care.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Hill
- Job title
- Community Team Lead Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01752 433228
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