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Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).
The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff.
An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.
We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
Home Enteral Feeding/Community Dietitian
Accepting applications until: 29-May-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-May-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Modular building Leighton Hospital
- Address
- Middlewich Rd
- Town
- Crewe
- Postcode
- CW1 4QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Cheshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Dietetics
Job overview
Is home Enteral Feeding /community dietetics the career pathway you are looking for ?
The successful candidate would be part of an enthusiastic and dynamic expanding Home Enteral Feeding (HEF)/ community dietetic team and enjoy strong MDT working with the wider community team including community nurses, specialist nurses and medicine management team.
You would be based at Leighton Hospital working across Mid Cheshire providing clinical intervention, patient and health care professional training and education to patients in their own homes, nursing homes and community clinics. This post offers the opportunity for a dietitian to further develop their clinical skills primarily in enteral feeding and nutritional support whilst maintaining core therapeutic dietetic knowledge.
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To deliver specialist dietetic services to adults requiring enteral feeding, prescribing support or therapeutic dietary intervention across South Cheshire and Vale Royal, as part of the Home Enteral Feeding Team. To provide regular home visits, virtual clinics and community dietetic clinics for this patient group, this will include the placement of enteral feeding tube following competency based training.
To formulate, deliver and monitor nutritional care plans for patients. This would include complex clinical conditions and diet therapy, within the community setting, including in patient’s own homes and continuing care establishments.
To be recognised as an expert source of knowledge in the field of enteral tube feeding and Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) contributing to development of clinical guidelines, resources and education packages.
The post requires developed communication and interpersonal skills for MDT working, patient education on a one to one and in a group setting and health care professional training. Ideally you will have a broad dietetic experience, including enteral feeding.
Competency based training will be provided in all aspects of community dietetics and HEF as required. Our service is committed to the training of student dietitians and other health care professionals.
The department encourages innovation and supports continuous professional development. We have embraced paperless working and are supported with enhanced IT facilities.
Working for our organisation
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.
We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.
The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To practice safely within the professional code of conduct and level of competency for all aspects of work, including the management of patients in your care.
To contribute to the delivery of the dietetic service to the adult community patients including therapeutic diets, malnutrition and enteral feeding which requires specialised nutritional knowledge of enteral products alongside tube care, PEG site management and transitional feeding. Managing and prioritising a defined patient caseload within the community setting.
To promote the role of the dietitian within the multidisciplinary team and develop competency to undertake associated procedures with full consultation with community team leader such as replacement of balloon retained gastrostomy tubes
To work closely with speech and language therapists to assess community patients, prior to referral for PEG placement, against MCHFT criteria and directly refer to the consultant physician as appropriate.
To work closely with MMT on cost effective prescribing in the community
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered as Dietitian
- Competencies in enteral Nutrition
Desirable criteria
- PENG course
- Experience community enteral Nutrition
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience in general dietetic intervention
- one years NHS clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in community dietetic
- Clinical experience in HEF
skills
Essential criteria
- clinical skills in management of enteral feeding tubes
Desirable criteria
- Clinical skills in enteral feeding tube placement
Documents
- Job Description Community/HEF Dietitian (PDF, 437.8KB)
- JS Band 6 Community Dietitian (PDF, 243.3KB)
- Guide to completing the Application (PDF, 518.8KB)
- Recruitment Process & Timescales (PDF, 240.7KB)
- Recruitment Process & Timescales (Bank Vacancies) (PDF, 249.3KB)
- DBS Checks and Ex-offender Guidance (PDF, 146.4KB)
- Welcome to MCHT (PDF, 1.1MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Brown
- Job title
- Community /HEF Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01270 612428
- Additional information
Jacqui Stocker
Dietetic and Adult Speech Therapy Manager
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Leighton Hospital
- Middlewich Road
- Crewe
- Cheshire
- CW1 4QJ
- Telephone
- [email protected]
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