The post holder will work for Whittington Health’s well established Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service and autonomously manage a diverse caseload within a variety of settings and provide nutritional assessment, dietetic treatment and advice.
The post holder will be required to travel and work across Whittington Health community sites (clinics, nursing homes, patient’s homes, virtual settings and groups) within the Islington and Haringey borough. The service sees predominantly adult patients, however the Haringey sites will also see a smaller caseload of non-complex paediatric patients ( >18 months old). Appropriate support and training will be provided where needed.

The post holder will act as an effective member of the dietetic team, working flexibly and supporting colleagues.

• Autonomously manage a varied and complex caseload of patients requiring nutrition support
• To provide patient centered approach for patient who require oral nutrition support, either in their own homes, dietetic clinics or within residential care homes
• To provide clinical nutrition and dietetic advice to patients, on a one-to-one basis within a clinic setting providing specialist dietary advice in the management of long term conditions (including but not limited to obesity, diabetes, IBS, gastrointestinal disorders and malnutrition)
• With adequate support and training; provide clinical nutrition and dietetic advice to paediatric patients (including fussy eaters, obesity, faltering growth, single food allergy, non complex patients 18 months or older).
• Using evidence based approach; Nutritional assessment of patients, including the calculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry and clinical condition resulting in the formulation of a dietetic treatment plan

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For full details of the job, please see attached job description.

• To review routine home Enteral feeding (HEF) patients as needed.
• To educate patients and their carers on complex dietary interventions for enteral and/or oral feeding as required, ensuring compliance with dietary treatment.
• To actively participate in the promotion of good health through promoting healthy eating, in line with government policies and local priorities, liaising closely with the public health departments;
• To be part of setting up and delivering health promotion and patient education groups.
• To be competent in the use of information technology including the formulation of databases for research and audit purposes as well as the use of nutritional packages for assessment of patients nutritional requirements and dietary adequacy as directed by service lead.
• Freedom to act interpreting the Health and Care Professions Council Code of Conduct and working to all agreed standards, policies and procedures within the Dietetic Department and Whittington Health.
• To line manage the Band 4 dietetic assistant or any other junior staff members as needed.

Please refer the Job description for details