Adult Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The HEF team has a caseload of adults and children and this post is to work with our adult caseload. You would work closely with the dietitians in the HEF team, MDTs at Northampton General Hospital, Kettering General Hospital and community teams. The service provide face to face home visits, outpatient appointments, telephone and video consultations depending on patient need. As well as a sound knowledge of enteral nutrition some experience in primary care is desirable, but not essential. Our Enteral Feed provider is Abbott Nutrition and you will work closely with the Abbott Nutrition Nurse Advisers. You will be supported by the team leader for HEF and the professional lead for dietetics.
You will have a sound knowledge of enteral feeding, experience of working with HEF patients and ability to work across different teams. You will be working as an autonomous practitioner but be a team player, will have excellent dietetic assessment skills and be able to create dietetic interventions that are linked into the wider MDT care plans. You will be involved in developing care pathways. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use different approaches flexibly to meet the needs of our patients and promote engagement.
You will be involved in the supporting the assistant practitioner and in student/apprentice training.

• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations and multiple medical conditions
• Formulating and reviewing individual management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning
• Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans, evaluating patients’ progress and measuring outcomes. This will include patients who have difficulty with understanding and/or communicating
• Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the dietetic treatment, to ensure a consistent approach to patient care
• Managing clinical risk within own caseload
• Contributing to and implementing service improvement work
  NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
  NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
  For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document