Band 7 Specialist Intensive Care and Nutrition Support Dietitian

Have responsibility for providing advanced and highly specialised dietetic support within critical care and parenteral nutrition team services.

- Be a key member of the multidisciplinary team
- Support line management responsibilities for other junior Dietitians/Dietetic Assistants
- Work closely with the other dietetic leads/specialist Dietitians at UHB to continue to develop the dietetic service
- Contribute to the training of student Dietitians on clinical placement
- Based at Heartlands and Good Hope Hospital (Employees will be expected to demonstrate a flexible working approach and move across sites as required to deliver care based on organisational and service need).

- To participate in 7 days working when appropriate service delivery allows and commences,

• To be responsible for and lead on a day-to-day basis the provision of Dietetic services within the critical Care and nutrition support team at HGS.
• To be an integral member of the Multidisciplinary and Dietetic Team structures within the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
• To lead the provision of service to specialist clinical areas using a high level of knowledge, skills and experience as an independent practitioner.
• To deliver a high quality, evidence-based Nutrition and Dietetic service to designated areas.
• To act autonomously and competently in the management of an adult caseload with a varying degree of nutritional complexity. This involves nutritional diagnosis (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition and diet history) and the development of suitable feeding plans/regimens. This necessitates the knowledge and use of the evidence base, assessment, counselling skills, motivational interviewing and other behavioural therapies in order to formulate an individualised care plan/programme, followed by education and support of the patient, monitoring, reviewing and reassessment over time.
• To be responsible for a complex caseload of patients with a broad range of conditions throughout their inpatient pathway and progression onto outpatient care., Please Note :
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  Job Description
  Evidence of relevant GCSE, NVQ, GNVQ, AS and A levels
• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
• Registration with HCPC, MSc or equivalent experience e.g. advanced level of clinical practice / relevant postgraduate, professionally accredited courses, Relevant post registration experience relevant to clinical area i.e critical care and parenteral nutrition- at least 12 months
• In depth for nutritional assessment / nutritional screening tools.
• Knowledge of all types of nutritional support.
• Up to date with clinical developments, with evidence of contributions to clinical meetings / journal clubs.
• Working knowledge of computer programmes e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, power point, dietary analysis, data collection and patient information programmes.
• Evidence of clinical audit and/or research.
• Evidence of multi-disciplinary team work.
• Knowledge of standards of record keeping and medico-legal issues.
• Experience of training Dietetic students., Evidence of teaching groups pf professionals and patients
• Evidence of ongoing regular attendance on post-graduate training courses and clinical development.
• Evidence of attendance at national conferences.
• Attendance at specialist group meetings of BDA and accredited specialist training course.
• Attendance at relevant multi-disciplinary courses/conferences, Ability to work through interpreters and use visual aids
• Able to use a range of communication skills
• Presentation / teaching skills
• To work independently & as part of a team.
• Manage and organise own work load.
• Use equipment relevant to speciality e.g. skin fold callipers, enteral feeding equipment, weighing scales, stadiometers.
• Plan and deliver a clinical audit programme.
• Deputise as appropriate
• Report writing skills
• Complete home enteral feeding discharges competently.
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills.
• Ability to absorb, interpret and summarise complex verbal information.
• Ability to cope with a variety of personal and professional approaches to patient care.
• Ability to discuss and influence with healthcare professionals across multidisciplinary teams and other agencies.
• Ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding in addition to any communication impairment e.g. psychological resistance to change, hostility, extreme distress and grief.
• Ability to analyse, interpret and explain complex…