ADULT DIETICIAN BAND 5

Job Description:

• To provide a high-quality specialist dietetic service to patients on medical and elderly wards, including clinical areas of gastroenterology, renal, diabetes, cardiology, haematology, oncology, gynaecology and urology.
• To deliver group sessions i.e. maternity healthy weight group, gestational diabetes and cardiac rehab
• To support management in strategic planning and ensure thorough, timely, safe, evidence based and cost-effective nutrition and dietetic service in these specialist areas.
• To liaise, support, inform and work with the multidisciplinary team for elderly care, GPs, practice nurses, district nurses, special interest groups of the British Dietetic Association home enteral feeding services, nursing homes and other Allied Health Professionals.
• Formulate, deliver and review individual dietetic treatment plans for patients based on evidence-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of a wide range of dietetic treatments
• Assess patients understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload with the support of more senior staff.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of work in compliance with standards of conduct, performance and ethics set out by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and BDA code of conduct set out by the British Dietetic Association (BDA).
• To demonstrate flexibility in providing cover in times of staff shortage within the rotational areas with senior support and training.
• To undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as requested by the Head of Dietetic Services.