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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) officially attained Teaching Hospital status on 1st April 2020; this is the start of our ambition to achieve University Teaching Hospital status. Supported by Edge Hill University, the University of Bolton and the University of Central Lancashire, with approval from regulators NHS Improvement/England and the Department of Health and Social Care, from the 1st April 2020, the Trust will now be known as Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL).
Attaining Teaching Hospital status enables WWL to further enhance education and training capacity, grow research capability and improve the recruitment and retention of high quality staff across all professions. Ultimately, this will result in a positive impact on the quality of care and outcomes for patients.
Specialist Community Dietitian
Accepting applications until: 11-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 11-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Parr Bridge Health and Wellbeing centre or Wigan Health Centre
- Address
- Mosley Common Rd
- Town
- Tyldesley
- Postcode
- M29 8RZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Dietitian
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
Are you looking to develop your dietetic career and really make an impact?
Are you an enthusiastic and passionate Band 6 Dietitian or a Band 5 Dietitian ready to progress?
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh foundation trust’s Community Dietetic department has a part time vacancy in our small, friendly, and supportive Adult Nutrition support team, and we are looking for the right person to fill it.
This role is to support the residents of Wigan who are at risk of malnutrition or those with enteral feeding tubes. You will provide supervision for Band 3-5 staff within the department and will also contribute to policy and service development within the department.
And the best bit is our flexibility. You will be able to mix working onsite in our community health centres as well as the opportunity for remote working. You will have home visits, outpatient clinics and work on our Community Assessment Unit.
You must have NHS experience and be an HCPC registered Dietitian with a degree in Nutrition & Dietetics.
This vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of quality applications.
For further information, contact Janette Banks, Adult Nutrition Support Team lead on 0300 707 7700
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You will work as a community Dietitian providing excellent, evidence based dietetic support within the Nutrition Support clinical pathway, including oral nutrition support, and home enteral feeding.
You will work in a range of settings – clinics, care homes, patients homes, community wards and admin / telephone support can be done in a community base or your own home.
You will be part of our small and friendly community team.
You will manage your own caseload autonomously, seeking support when needed.
You will provide supervision for junior members of staff and be involved in student training, and receive supervision and mentorship from the senior Dietitians.
You will support service development,
This is a part time post of 22.5 hours per week spread over 3-5 days Monday to Friday, although there may be an expectation for weekend work in the future.
Working for our organisation
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key results from the job holder
- To work as an autonomous practitioner within the Community Dietetic Team specialising in adult nutrition support whilst delivering remote and face to face assessments across the full range of Dietetic specialities within the community.
- To manage a defined caseload, working to agreed standards and protocols which reflect evidence-based practice and dietetic principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- To collect and assimilate information necessary to undertake nutritional assessment and determine nutritional needs of the patient including referral to other disciplines as appropriate.
- To develop, monitor and review appropriate care plans, to meet the needs of individuals using complex numerical calculations, interpretation of clinical, biochemical, and psychosocial information.
- To assess and interpret the medical diagnoses and changes in medical condition of individual patient and understands how this affects nutritional management.
- To monitor and review nutritional care plans against outcome measures and adjust care plan to facilitate achievement of goal
- To communicate effectively with patients, relatives, care staff, and health care professionals to negotiate and support decision making in relation to therapeutic management and evaluating outcomes.
- To be able to adapt the communication skills within a variety of settings using various approaches including knowledge of learning theories and barriers to learning.
- To take part in clinical supervision and seek advice around any complex situations from Senior Dietitians within the Nutrition Service.
- To attend dietetic meetings with the wider dietetic team and contribute to dietetic meetings with case studies, new evidence, and updates in own area of work.
- To provide clinical education, advice and support for junior therapy staff, support staff and students, adapting training to suit the learners needs and learning style.
- To provide specialist knowledge, skills, and advice to clients, and be a source of expertise for therapy staff, other members of the MDT and other agencies.
- To supervise, educate and assess the performance of therapy students.
- To contribute to service research and audit activities.
- To support the Team Lead with strategic planning and development of the service.
- To be flexible to meet the needs of the service and propose any service changes within own professional speciality area.
Planning and Organisational Duties
- To be responsible for designated area of work and prioritise workload in line with Dietetic standards and priorities.
- To accurately record all assessments and interventions on electronic systems in line with Trust policy.
- To record and submit clinical and professional activity using manual and electronic means according to departmental standards.
- To contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda by representing the Nutrition and Dietetic service on subgroups, undertaking audit projects as part of clinical practice and engaging in CPD and departmental appraisal system.
- To contribute to and comment on the department policies, resources and matters relating to nutrition and dietetics.
- To promote safe standards of care and service.
- Interpret and follow the Trust and professional policy/clinical guidelines.
- To communicate and liaise with other agencies appropriately, e.g., members of the MDT, acute Dietitians, nurses, social care.
Communications and Key Working Relationships
- To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise Dietetic effectiveness and to ensure understanding of condition and the Dietetic care plan. Use communication skills such as persuasion and motivational interviewing to produce a person centred, patient specific Dietetic care plan.
- To use communication tools (verbal and non-verbal) to gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to effective communication e.g., loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain, fear etc.
- To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- To communicate complex patient-related information (as well as non-patient information) effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service
Responsibility for Human Resources
- To attend and contribute to Nutrition and Dietetic Service meetings as required.
- To assist in the clinical supervision and assessment of Band 5 Dietitians, support staff and student dietitians including planning and evaluation.
- To assist in delivering formal and informal training to other health care professionals and staff groups.
- To participate in clinical supervision.
- To attend Dietetic Meetings and be an active member of the in-service training programme.
Responsibility for Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 – the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Responsibility for Teaching
- To educate patients, relatives and carers in conditions, their effects and dietetic treatments in order to improve compliance.
- To receive, plan, deliver and evaluate in-service training for own profession and others.
- To participate in the planning, evaluation and audit of practices, clinical pathways, and protocols within your clinical area.
- To participate with other team members in measurement of and evaluation of work and current practice through use of outcome measures and audit.
Work Circumstances & on-call
Monday to Friday with no on-call
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Recruitment Information for Candidates
Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on 01942 244000 if you have difficulty applying online.
The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.
We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.
Guidance on Completing Your Application
Applications are scored against the person specification, therefore we recommend that you use the supporting information section of your application form to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role, providing illustrative examples where possible.
On-Call
Please note that some roles may require you to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
Continuous Service
WWL has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. and will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester Local Authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority; giving you access to our service-related benefits.
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
- Diploma/Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC Registered
Desirable criteria
- Relevant clinical courses
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and an understanding of team dynamics
- Experience of service evaluation; clinical audit, patient engagement, national guidelines to inform service improvements
- Evidence of, and the importance of a range of, ongoing CPD
- Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate clinical treatments
- NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a variety of Community specialities
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post graduate experience and skills across range of clinical areas and specifically within relevant clinical area of specialism
- Evidence of the ability to manage complex clinical presentations
- Excellent awareness of the needs of the client groups you will be working with, along with their significant others, and evidence of consideration of these within practice
- Effective organisational skills / time management skills; effective prioritisation and caseload management skills.
- Excellent communication / interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to modify communication for different audiences and for different purposes and communicate specialist advice and knowledge effectively.
- Evidence of flexibility and ability to adjust plans at short notice or in response to changing clinical / patient or service needs.
- Ability to reflect and appraise own work and performance.
- Self-motivation: i.e. uses own initiative to seek CPD, recognise needs of the service and areas to develop.
- Ability to manage patient / relatives who are distress or upset
- Good IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Able to carry equipment of up to 5kg
- Proactive
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Dietetic interventions within a range of clinical conditions
- Relevant national guidelines and policies
- Awareness of different safeguarding (adult / children) issues.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of audit
Additional
Essential criteria
- Able to work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team.
- Committed to personal and team development.
- Able to pass on skills and knowledge.
- Able to maintain judgement under pressure.
- Clear vision of role.
- Able to recognise and work within own personal limitations.
- The ability to travel independently across the Trust.
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation.
Desirable criteria
- Member of BDA
- Member of relevant specialist interest group
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janette Banks
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Dietitian and Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 707 7700
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