Community Dietitian

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload requiring dietetic intervention in the community, including care homes, supported living, clinics and patients' own homes.
• Provide dietetic assessment and intervention for a range of conditions including specialist interventions such as enteral feeding, patients with learning disabilities and those requiring complex nutrition support.
• Work as part of our team of dietitians and dietetic assistants.
• Maintain a patient‑centred approach in line with our Trust values.
• Work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
• Possess excellent communication/interpersonal skills to negotiate and build rapport with patients, carers and families.
• Work with key members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide individualised advice, support & care plans to patients.
• Demonstrate excellent time management, prioritisation & organisational skills.
• Participate in education & staff development, clinical supervision and the delivery of dietetic student training.

• Excellent team‑working, communication, organisational and time‑management skills.
• Commitment to continuing professional development (CPD).
• UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Contribution to the training of student dietitians.

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The post is varied and interesting, and we are looking for a Dietitian with the necessary skills and experience to be able to cover a range of community dietetics including community clinics, some complex nutrition support for people who are housebound and home enteral nutrition.

Our team is friendly and welcoming, supporting each other to provide the best nutritional care for the people of Barnsley.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high‑quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non‑clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.