Bank Primary Care Dietitian-ONW Job Purpose

Working closely with the Primary Care Dietetic Team, you will provide face-to-face and virtual clinical nutrition and dietetic services in the community (including outpatient clinics and domiciliary visits to housebound & care home patients). The post holder will have their own caseload of adult patients and will focus on a range of nutritional issues including malnutrition and chronic disease.
9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
Would consider reduced hours / part-time hours, The post holder will be responsible for:
· Provision of specialist Dietetic assessments and treatment to adult patients at health centres and a domiciliary service to patients in their own home and Care Homes within Brent.
· Management of specialist caseload of clients who are malnourished or enterally fed and to maintain associated patient records.
· Making recommendations to GPs on appropriate prescribing for their patients' dietary requirements.
· Liaising with Dietitians and other health care professionals to ensure clients discharged from secondary care are followed up appropriately and receive ongoing input as required following discharge
· Participating in clinical governance including Quality Improvement activities within Nutrition & Dietetics Brent., · To take a delegated lead on the development of service objectives or projects in liaison with colleagues.
· To assume delegated tasks as requested by Head of Nutrition & Dietetics, including participation in working groups and policy development groups.
· Organise and manage own caseload including clinical cases, health promotion and education.
· To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible in accordance with Trust policies whilst maintaining effective communication with the Head of Nutrition & Dietetics.
· To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment (eg wheelchair scales, hoist scales) ensuring standards of infection control and safety are complied with - including equipment loaned to clients and that used for community-based programmes.
· To be responsible for ordering and maintaining department supplies of nutrition support samples, associated enteral feed equipment and ensure current information is available for their use.
· To advise Head of Nutrition & Dietetics on issues of service delivery including clinical activity, service pressures versus service capacity.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

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