Dietitian – Community
Job Description
Job title: Dietitian – Community
Company: Sanctuary Personnel
Job description: Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 600+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Dietitian to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Location: Ipswich
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Dietitian Pay Rate: £25 per hour (assignment rate)
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus – Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Duties of the Dietitian:
- To be a lead dietitian responsible for the delivery of a high quality, evidence-based dietetic care to a complex case load of patients in a variety of care settings, which could include acute and community settings e.g. wards, outpatient clinics and patients’ homes.
- To manage a caseload of home visits and where need home enteral feed patients
- To supervise junior member of staff including band 4 assistant practitioners.
- To promote the MUST and Food First projects, as well as, support the promotion of cost effective prescribing of oral nutritional supplements.
- To provide education and training for professional colleagues on aspects of nutritional and dietary care as required.
- To contribute to the dietetic service in the community providing a source of expertise to patients, carers, medical practitioners and allied health professionals and social care professionals as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- To provide specialist input into the planning, development and evaluation of dietetic services within your team and for defined projects.
- To manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in a range of settings using evidence- based, client-centred principles to assess, plan and evaluate specialised dietetic interventions.
- To undertake nutritional assessments, taking into consideration biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and dietary intake.
- To work with patients and carers to identify nutrition-related goals as part of an overall care plan.
- To plan, implement and evaluate interventions in partnership with patients using a range of treatment techniques to meet individuals’ nutritional requirements.
- To work in a holistic way and participate in patient care meetings to ensure that dietetic outcomes influence any decision regarding overall care plan.
- To provide support, education and advice to patients and carers regarding aspects of diet therapy e.g. dietary modification, food fortification, nutritional supplementation, enteral and parenteral nutrition.
- To ensure that any treatment plan is compatible with the patients lifestyle, religious and cultural beliefs functional ability and health outcome.
- To plan and prioritise own clinical caseload and that of dietetic students and support staff on a daily basis.
Requirements of the Dietitian:
Expected salary: £25 per hour
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk
