CAMHS Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Bury

Full time
Permanent
Onsite working

Posted 1 day ago, 4 Jan | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 9c64b106d4f445b4a655f6710857cd54

PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

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To work autonomously managing highly specialist complex clients with eating disorders, identifying, planning and delivering highly specialist dietetic interventions, demonstrating expertise in this area of clinical speciality.
To provide a highly specialist nutrition advisory and dietetic service as part of the CAMHS Community Eating Disorders Service, and as part of the CAMHS Inpatient Service.
Provide advanced nutritional and dietetic advice in a specialist area to medical, health care professionals and other agencies.
Act as the lead dietetic specialist for the CAMHS Acute Pathway services , managing a highly specialist caseload.
To provide a highly specialist nutrition advisory and dietetic service across the Trust.
Participate in service development within own clinical area and contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development.
To provide strategic direction to the Trust to ensure that it meets its requirements as laid out by the CQC.
To provide an active role in ensuring that mental health staff within the Trust are able to undertake assessments to determine malnutrition appropriate to the age of the service
To act as an independent practitioner for a highly specialist clinical caseload.
To use highly developed communication skills for patients/carers and the team.
To develop effective working relationships across all agencies.
To communicate and liaise effectively with other members of the MDT, including attendance at CPA/MDT meetings if required.
To provide expert assessment, and advice to patients and carers, providing evidence based highly specialised nutritional care plans.
To act as a source of highly specialist information and advice on current best practice in mental health dietetics for colleagues, other health care professionals and clinicians.
To work with patients with complex needs, including communication impairment and lack of capacity.
To make recommendations about the safe and appropriate use of nutritional supplements, drug prescriptions and interactions relating to nutritional intake.
To be responsible for advising on the procurement of suitable enteral feeding products and equipment for the service.
To devise, monitor and review highly specialised care plans against outcome measures to facilitate the achievement of goals.
Gain valid consent to treatment and negotiate change with patients by breaking down barriers, using motivational skills, to enable them to achieve dietary targets set.
To ensure safe and timely discharge of patients, liaising with appropriate internal and external agencies.
To provide accurate clinical recording.
Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
To plan and prioritise own workload including responsibilities for patient care, training and other professional responsibilities.
To be able to work using a high level of skill and knowledge as an independent practitioner.
Decide daily on priorities for own work area balancing patient related and professional demands.
Contribute to task and finish groups as required.
Complete allocated projects and meet deadlines.
Record patient activity data.
Provide supervision for band 6 Mental Health Dietitians working across the directorate, including agreeing annual leave and cover for the team and travel claims.
Deliver training to mental health staff on nutritional issues as required.
Contribute to the training of pre-registration dietetic students on clinical placement (subject to six months post-registration experience) by:
Contribute to the development of educational resources, which are evidence based and acceptable to patients and carers.
Contribute to the development of mental health dietetic care pathways, assessment tools, care plans and other resources that support patient care.
Plan, deliver and evaluate formal and informal training within specialism to audiences of
Work within the Health and Care Professions Council's Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency.
Attend Trust induction training and mandatory training programmes.
Identify personal training needs through participation in regular continuous professional development activities and individual performance review.
Maintain a personal portfolio as evidence of competence to practice.
Undertake defined audit projects as part of clinical practice.
Contribute to the development of mental health dietetic evidence based treatment policies, protocols, standards and guidelines.
To ensure data collection is robust to enable outcome measures and service evaluation can be monitored.
To undertake any other reasonable duty, which is appropriate to the band, when requested
To be familiar with and comply with all Trust and departmental policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines.
To be aware of and work towards the Trusts strategic goals.

CAMHS Specialist Eating Disorder Dietitian | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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