Band 6 Community Dietitian Nutrition Support

You will manage a caseload of home enteral feeding and complex oral nutrition support patients in your own defined geographical area in Birmingham - this includes visiting patients in their own homes and care homes, and carrying out community clinics via telephone or in health centres around the city. We try to arrange this practically to avoid excessive travel time for our team members. After a comprehensive induction you will have a high degree of autonomy in managing your caseload but we are a welcoming supportive team - there is always someone available to message or call, and we meet regularly face to face for clinical supervision and service development. You will give clinical supervision to our Band 4 and 5s, who see the majority of our oral nutrition support patients, supporting their development by giving them graded exposure to the more complex patients on your caseload. We are also proud to provide highly rated supervision to dietetic learners and apprentices.

Are you passionate about nutrition support and keen to extend your skills in managing complex patients? Several of our valued team members are moving on to Band 7 roles both internally and externally, resulting in an exciting opportunity for experienced dietitians to join our friendly community nutrition support team. Our Band 6s provide specialist assessment & intervention for community patients requiring home enteral feeding and/or complex oral nutrition support, acting as a resource for junior staff and other health professionals in the management of undernutrition across Birmingham. We are seeking dietitians with some experience of nutrition support, with excellent communication and time management skills, and a patient-centred and solution-focused professional practice.,

• the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people and build strong working relationships
• the willingness to build on and share your clinical knowledge in nutrition support and the medical conditions our patients live with
• developing the ability to take complex, evidence-based decisions both in the management of individual patients and prioritisation of your overall caseload.
  
  Key things our team members tell us they appreciate about working in the community nutrition support team are the greater opportunities for flexible working and maintaining work-life balance (our patients also benefit from our increased flexibility and responsiveness), and the hard-working, kind and supportive ethos of the team. Team members have diverse backgrounds and experience in clinical areas such as oncology, neurorehabilitation, paediatrics and diabetes, and we love to share our knowledge to ensure the best outcomes for our patients.
In terms of the wider department, Birmingham Community Nutrition provides a comprehensive community citywide service and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic students from two higher education institutions (A, B & C placements). We actively participate in clinical audit and service development. Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking, excellent access to IT equipment to work flexibly, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service. The department has a structured approach to Clinical Governance and your personal development via preceptorship, annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust, whose goal is to be a truly inclusive organisation and a great place to work