COMMUNITY DIETICIAN BAND 6

Job Description:

• To maintain a detailed knowledge of national and local standards (e.g. National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines) and the current evidence base in relation to nutrition and your area(s) of practice.
• You may be expected to provide cover cross site as clinical demand.
• The post holder will largely carry a gastro and general medical caseload, alongside some complex enteral feed patients. There will also be an expectation to support with the management and cover of HDU/ITU and TPN patients with training and support available as needed.
• To assess, monitor, and review patients nutritional care plans as appropriate to the patient group.
• To work in a coordinated multidisciplinary manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved with these patient groups to promote timely interventions.
• To work with the multidisciplinary team to implement protocols and treatment pathways for this group of patients.
• To interpret received information concerning medical and social history to ensure advice is given in a person centered and culturally specific way.
• To provide highly complex nutrition counselling and use of reassurance and motivational skills to overcome barriers to change particularly where there is non-compliance.
• To provide expert nutritional advice and education to patients, carers and relatives.
• To support the use of a nutrition screening tool for inpatients to ensure patients are appropriately referred to the dietitian.
• To undertake training to be deemed competent in the use of all equipment related to nutritional assessment and enteral feeding e.g. anthropometrics and feeding pumps.