Job summary
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Dietitian - Infectious Diseases
Band 7
Job overview
Highly Specialist Dietitians - Band 7 - Infectious Diseases
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Full time (37.5 hours) - permanent
We are looking for a dietitian for our Infectious Diseases service based within the Royal Liverpool Hospital. The post holder will provide a dedicated dietetic service to our Regional Adult Unit for Tropical and Infectious Diseases (ID). The post holder will assess and advise patients being treated in the infectious diseases unit. This patient group includes patients with HIV, TB and C. diff infections and are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition because of increased nutritional requirements and reduced appetite. An experienced Dietitian is required as this patient group are often particularly challenging because of complex lifestyles and social circumstances.
Main duties of the job
Clinically the post holder will be responsible for covering a busy in-patient caseload providing specialised dietetic support for ID patients. The post holder will be expected to attend MDT meetings and ward rounds and will work closely with our medical, AHP teams and specialist nurses. The postholder will be part of a wider medical team comprised of Specialist Dietitians for Nephrology, Diabetes, Nutrition Support, Gastroenterology, Gerontology and Haematology and will provide support for band 6, band 5 rotational staff and assistants working within medicine.
We are looking for a Dietitian with excellent communication skills, the ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Operational responsibilities include monitoring referrals and activity, prioritising caseload as necessary, evaluating activity, responding to service demands. The Dietitian will work with the team contributing to service improvement, training, supervision of junior staff, assistants and students, development of protocols, policies, resources, standards and audit.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details see the Job Description attached.
Job Summary
To provide factually accurate, unbiased evidence based nutritional advice appropriate to the needs of individual. Advice will be provided using a patient-centred approach, in the context of multidisciplinary, multiagency delivery plans.
Job Purpose
To be a clinical lead in the Trust for nutrition and dietetic services to your own specialist area. This involves:-
Personally providing the dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients.
Educating/training other members of the multi-disciplinary team in specialist area.
Clinical supervision of newly qualified staff and Band 5/Band 6 dietitians on rotation.
Training of Student Dietitians.
Development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to clinical speciality.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics/PhD Nutrition and Dietetics
- Current registration with HCPC
- Membership of BDA or equivalent professional indemnity insurance
- Post registration validated training in specialist area – (BDA validated or MSc equivalent
- Supervisory Skills training, minimum introductory level
Desirable criteria
- Supervisory Skills training advanced level
- Member of specialist interest group
- Educated to masters level or equivalent
- Attended leadership/management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad clinical experience, including post registration experience in speciality.
- Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of supporting learning of other healthcare professionals
- Experience and evidence of continuing personal and professional development in practice
- Experience in the training of student dietitians
- Previous experience of conducting audits and or research.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of service review/development.
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Experience of influencing others to improve patient care
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Establish effective communication methods to convey specialist knowledge to patients individually and in groups in a variety of settings
Desirable criteria
- Post registration credited learning in enhanced communication skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates good presentation skills
- Accurate anthropometry skills.
- Implements behavioural/counselling techniques to constructively overcome barriers to change.
- Able to work autonomously within area of specialism using critical thinking and expert practitioner level judgement.
- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritise tasks and support others to do the same.
- Demonstrates confidence and motivation to work autonomously using clinical judgement in environments with little direct support.
Desirable criteria
- I.T. skills – keyboard, email, Powerpoint
Other
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates holistic patient centred approach
- Commitment to maintain dietetic profile within the multidisciplinary team
- Self-reliant and self-motivated but willing to seek advice and support of others
- Supportive approach to learners
- Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns
- Enhanced CRB Disclosure
Desirable criteria
- Collaborative and constructive
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Beverly Sheaf
- Job title
- Lead Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 706 2761
- Additional information
Alex Schenker, Department Lead on 0151 706 2120 or [email protected]
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