Clinical Lead Dietitian Community Integrated Care

Job overview

This is a fixed term/secondment post until 30/06/2027.

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic dietitian to join our well respected community dietetic team in Carmarthenshire as a clinical lead for community and integrated care. This post is a fixed term, 2 year opportunity and offers an ideal opportunity for a dietitian looking to develop their clinical leadership skills or an experienced clinical lead that would like to specialise in community dietetics. The post-holder will fully embed themselves as part of a wider MDT, supporting embedding nutrition/hydration as part of models of care and driving forward innovation.  The post-holder base is to be confirmed and we welcome applicants who would like to discuss part time and/or flexible working opportunities in terms of the hours worked.

Working for us means you will join a rapidly growing, supportive and innovative team. You will be supported in your role and will have the opportunity to access training /education as well as higher education opportunities. 

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Acting clinical dietetic lead for the community integrated care team, working collaboratively with proximal community multidisciplinary services to strengthen communication and clinical delivery across community settings.  

Autonomously manages a varied and complex caseload of adult dietetic referrals with nutritional support needs working as part of the multi-professional integrated care team , community dietetics team and wider multi-professional team to provide specialist dietetic advice in relation to nutritional management and to produce a coordinated care plan of care.   
   
Leads on embedding and strengthening nutritional screening at the ‘front door’ and as part of rapid response pathways and models of care including providing training and education, including accredited training to therapy assistant practitioners and others working as part of the front door model to de-escalate risk. 

Supports the wider community nutritional support team by providing operational  leadership alongside other community leads, ensuring effective prioritisation of referrals and that dietetic pathways and processes are fully embedded. 

Delivers dietetic care in a variety of settings to meet the needs of the patient including undertaking home visits, attending care home/residential settings, community hospitals and providing group education and working across virtual platforms.  

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest.

Five community hospitals: Amman Valley Hospital and Llandovery Hospital in Carmarthenshire,  Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire.

Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion).
Community facilities, including:

48 General Practices (GP surgeries), 49 Dental Practices, 98 Community Pharmacies (chemists), 44 General Ophthalmic Practices (including eye health and low vision services), 38 sites providing mental health and learning disability services, care within your own homes

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.