ARFID Specialist Dietitian

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Specialist ARFID Dietitian to work across our Mental Health services in Lincolnshire.
We’re looking for a motivated, enthusiastic individual with good leadership skills to provide specialist Dietetic support across a range of services within LPFT.
The post holder will be professionally accountable for their own complex caseload and also responsible for overseeing an effective, high quality specialist Dietetic service across the Trust.
This is an outstanding opportunity for career development, in an area of highly specialised clinical practice.
Regular line management and clinical supervision will be offered.
The post holder will provide dietetic expertise and will be an integral participant in the ARFID Service development project.
The first year will involve supporting the strategic development of the service including to co-create and deliver ARFID training packages.
Offer support to patients, carers and staff within LPFT CAMHS services.
Support future development and expansion of the service
Clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients - to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
Undertake comprehensive specialist assessment, treatment and discharge of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations.
Engage patients in treatment planning decisions, in line with their individual goals.
Write clear plans of care for both the patients, carers and multi-disciplinary teams to follow.
Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required, using standardised outcome measures. Encourage and support staff in the use of appropriate outcome measures.
Provide specialist advice, teaching, training and instruction to patients, relatives, carers and professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of treatment, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
Promote integrated working and contribute to the delivery of holistic care by actively participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
To provide management and clinical supervision for junior dietetic staff.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
To support delivery of the ARFID pathway and deliver interventions in accordance with best practice.
To provide therapeutic care and health promotional /educational activities across the county within LPFT CAMHS Services.
To act as a source of specialist clinical advice and guidance for patients, families, carers and the multi-disciplinary team.
To provide a Specialist Dietetic perspective in complex multidisciplinary assessments and treatment programmes.
To hold and manage an ARFID Dietetic caseload.
To inform the diagnosis of patients as part of the wider multidisciplinary team.
To be responsible for devising the nutritional treatment plans of patients on caseload.
To be involved in legal decisions relating to mental capacity linked to the implementation of dietary recommendations.
To inform decision making and planning around Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. To be involved in decision making around child protection safeguarding.
To effectively influence and contribute to service development.
To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to patients, other healthcare professionals, carers and families, within the bounds of confidentiality, agreeing decision making relevant to the patient management.
Provide highly specialist advice to senior colleagues and other health professionals, both internal and external to the Trust

Please refer the Job description for details