Bank HENS Dietitian Band 6

An exciting opportunity has arisen, for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian, to join the well-established Leicestershire Home Enteral Nutrition Service (HENS) on a Bank contract.

The post holder will manage a caseload of patients receiving enteral nutrition in the community, including at home, school, day care and care homes.

We have both adult and paediatric HENS dietitians in our team and are there for looking for dietitians with either experience in one of these areas or both.

This friendly, forward thinking and supportive team consists of Dietitians, Dietetic Assistant Practitioners, Dietetic Support Workers and administrative staff.

The HENS team is involved in pre-discharge training and preparation, post-discharge monitoring, coordination of supplies of feed and equipment, maintenance of enteral feeding tubes, and provision of a trouble-shooting service for families and professionals.

We have close working relationships with the wide network of healthcare, social care and education professionals involved with our patients, such as Leicestershire's community nurses and acute trust services.

Due to the nature of the role, you must be a car driver and have access to a vehicle during working hours.

The HENS team is part of the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) Nutrition and Dietetic Service, and provides services to adult and paediatric patients resident in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland who require Enteral Nutrition at home.

The LPT Nutrition and Dietetic service as a whole covers a broad scope of dietetic work in addition to Home Enteral Nutrition, including adult and paediatric outpatient clinics, domiciliary visits, inpatients, mental health and learning disabilities, specialist weight management services, and work with nurseries and schools.

Previous experience in clinical home enteral nutrition is desired, however, if you can demonstrate an interest in home enteral nutrition but do not yet have the required experience, training and development opportunities or a development position can be agreed. You will also need excellent communication skills.

We operate a proactive hands on working style with enteral feeding tubes, equipping you to work collaboratively with patients, carers, and professionals.

There may be the opportunity in the future to support the adult team with community balloon tube and/of Nasogastric tube changes if desired, after suitable training has been provided, but this is not an expectation of this role.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

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• Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.