Dietetic Support Worker - Care Homes

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This role involves leading on the management of the referrals and waiting list and communicating to care homes. It will also involve completing dietetic reviews and speaking to the team leaders in the care home and give first line advice, under the support and direction of the dietitian. The consultations are predominantly by telephone; therefore the work can be completed both in the dietetic office or home working.

• Supporting referral management. This involves accepting the referral and when indicated communicating back to the referrer, registering the patient onto the system and prioritising based on level of nutritional risk. Leading on the waiting list management and communicating to the care homes to ensure information for reviews are submitted. You will have access to advice and support from more senior staff.
• Supporting the dietitian on the management of dietetic interventions for patients residing in care homes throughout the county. There will be some face-to-face work, but the role is predominantly remote by telephone. Clinical decision making without direct supervision is required but you will have access to advice and support from a registered dietitian.
• Discussing the individual’s treatment plan and their related condition/illness with the care home team and deliver specific interventions and/or treatments within the plan. You will identify specific precautions or contraindications to the proposed interventions / treatments and take the appropriate action.
• Liaising with nutrition companies to arrange samples of oral nutritional supplements to be delivered to the care homes.
• Complete and maintain patient records and data collection in line with trust policy and information governance requirements.
  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