Adult Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian

The HEF team has a caseload of adults and children and this post is to work with our adult caseload. You would work closely with the dietitians in the HEF team, MDTs at Northampton General Hospital, Kettering General Hospital and community teams. The service provide face to face home visits, outpatient appointments, telephone and video consultations depending on patient need. As well as a sound knowledge of enteral nutrition some experience in primary care is desirable, but not essential. Our Enteral Feed provider is Abbott Nutrition and you will work closely with the Abbott Nutrition Nurse Advisers. You will be supported by the team leader for HEF and the professional lead for dietetics., You will be involved in the supporting the assistant practitioner and in student/apprentice training. The role involves:

• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations and multiple medical conditions
• Formulating and reviewing individual management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning
• Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans, evaluating patients' progress and measuring outcomes. This will include patients who have difficulty with understanding and/or communicating
• Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the dietetic treatment, to ensure a consistent approach to patient care
• Managing clinical risk within own caseload
• Contributing to and implementing service improvement work, Applications will be transferred to the TRAC system, by completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account. Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications. We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds. At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you. Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible. All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position. Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.

You will have a sound knowledge of enteral feeding, experience of working with HEF patients and ability to work across different teams. You will be working as an autonomous practitioner but be a team player, will have excellent dietetic assessment skills and be able to create dietetic interventions that are linked into the wider MDT care plans. You will be involved in developing care pathways. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use different approaches flexibly to meet the needs of our patients and promote engagement.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.