Job summary North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare are looking to recruit a Band 6 Dietitian to work in the Specialist Adult Eating Disorder Service.£35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum, hours per week - full time.You will provide a specialist dietetic assessment of patients with diverse clinical presentation and pathology to determine a clinical diagnosis and provide treatment via therapeutic interventions as indicated and develop effective treatment plans.
Main duties of the job To work as an autonomous practitioner to perform a specialist dietetic assessment of patients with diverse presentations.To use clinical reasoning to provide a diagnosis and develop, deliver and adapt individualised dietetic treatment programmes.To be responsible for organising and planning own and junior member of staff's caseloads and to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations or changes arise and to provide specialist dietetic reports as requested About us As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS ( As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers.
In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan.
As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels.
We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Job description Job responsibilities To identify and carry out Clinic reviews and Home Visits in accordance with Trust and Professional standards and to assess patient condition and suitability for discharge and where appropriate supervise dietitians and dietetic assistants in this tasks.To implement monitoring and evaluation of treatment in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of interventions and service delivery.To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and that of supervised dietitians and assistants, and hold responsibility for own caseload for a specialist area of the service, working without direct supervisionTo develop robust effective communication with all CWP staff and other relevant agencies GPs and other medical staff, nursing staff, social care staff, carers and users etc.
and support junior and assistant staff to communicate effectively.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Degree in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent Membership of professional body Experience Essential Demonstrable post graduate experience Knowledge Essential Evidence of post-graduate learning Knowledge of recommended current practice