Adult Clinical Community Dietitian

at  Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Main Duties and Responsibilities To deliver dietetic services provided by the Adult Clinical Community Team. Delivery of services includes assessment, treatment and ongoing management of community patients including community clinics and domiciliary visits. To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients, including biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition, diet history and social circumstances. To use clinical reasoning skills to interpret data and implement appropriate patient centred nutritional aims and plans including timely onward referrals as appropriate.
To utilise prioritisation skills and plan the day-to-day provision of dietetic services within your own caseload. To ensure your own nutrition and dietetic knowledge is up-to-date and evidence-based including the current developments for nutrition in community dietetics. To act as an autonomous practitioner to provide expert nutritional advice. This may involve seeking advice from peers within and outside the Trust.
To be professionally and legally accountable, and responsible for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care. To evaluate and review your own work, seeking the views of others and adopting the principles of evidence based practice to ensure maintenance and development of clinical and professional standards. To contribute to the development and provision of education and training on a range of dietetic issues to health and social care professionals. To work independently and undertake lone working in the community.
To represent the team and department at exhibitions, events, and local meetings. To be involved in undertaking development work within the Team, this could include clinical audits, service improvement, resource development, newsletters, and updates to social media/websites. To contribute to the training of student Dietitians. To ensure work is in line with departmental, trust and national dietetic standards.
To understand any other Band 5 Dietetic duties identified by the team or Team Lead

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