Bank Dietitians Band 7

To manage a caseload of patients requiring home enteral feeding and supporting with oral nutritional support and obesity caseloads as required. This will include domiciliary visits to patients and care homes in the borough of Barnet as well as undertaking face to face and virtual clinics.

To provide expert clinical and appraisal support to members of the Nutrition Support Team promoting, influencing and enabling transferable skills to provide resilience in accordance with service demand.

To provide expert nutrition support care to people on Home Enteral Feeding or identified at risk of malnutrition, including those prescribed oral nutritional supplements, to enable their dietary and nutritional rehabilitation and refer for non-nutritional underlying factors to other appropriate health and social care services.

To identify underlying contributory factors for malnutrition and refer to partner services as appropriate.

To develop tailored best practice standards and protocols in the management of home enteral feeding and service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Lead on the Nutrition Support Care Pathways for home enteral feeding in collaboration with CLCH and NCL partners

Utilise project management skills and work in partnership with service users, other agencies and professionals to plan, develop, implement and evaluate enteral feeding intervention programmes

Take into consideration Trust Strategic Objectives, national policies such as NICE guidelines for Nutrition Support in Adults, NHS England, Care Quality Commission fundamental standards of care and NHS London Procurement Partnership's Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Procurement.

Work with Acute trusts, Primary Care Networks, North Central London (NCL) enteral feeding consortium group, and medicines optimisation teams to further develop prescribing guidelines. engage gp's and provide best practice to improve prescribing practices the implementation of best practice care plans.

Lead on the development and implementation of clinical standards, policies and procedures for home enteral feeding and nutrition support.

Work in conjunction with the Clinical Lead Dietitian in developing appropriate prescribing initiatives for development of the teams strategic direction, objectives and business plans in line with the Trust Objectives.

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

£26.30 an hour Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay