Job overview

Are you looking to develop your skills and knowledge to build a career? Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a Band 6 Senior Community Dietitian on a part time basis of 22.5 hours per week. Flexible work options can be considered.

The responsibilities within this role include delivering a dietetic service to housebound patients and Care Home residents at risk of malnutrition in the Frimley South area.

The post holder will work closely with the wider relevant multi-disciplinary teams and provide support to Medicine Optimisation team.

You will lead on various projects such as Appropriate prescribing of Sip Feeds and Quality Improvement projects in care homes.

Our department is a well-established team of dietitians working across various specialities. Our department values every individual within the team, and is passionate about supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, in order to create a supportive team environment. We are keen to support continued professional development through access to internal and external opportunities for learning.

Main duties of the job

• To provide individualised nutrition assessments and review for patients requiring oral nutrition support in care homes and those who are housebound across Frimley South Place
• To be a source of expertise for FHFT and Frimley ICB on issues relating to oral nutrition support in the community 
• To support team lead and Frimley ICB medicines optimisation team in ensuring appropriate use of oral nutritional supplements in the community to treat malnutrition 
• To educate, train and disseminate information to health and social care professionals including clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, dietetic colleagues, care home staff and students about the dietetic management of malnutrition in the community 
• To undertake regular audit and service development projects 

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. 

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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