Specialist Renal Dietitian

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a Dietitian to join our team of renal dietitians in Northamptonshire. We have had received new investment from the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire to expand our acute dietetic team and are recruiting to this new post. You will predominantly work at Kettering General Hospital but will also spend some time at Northampton General Hospital. Working in the renal team offers a fantastic opportunity to be an integral part of both a dietetic and multidisciplinary teams. Your input will really make a difference, both to the patients, the MDT and dietetic team.
You will predominantly be working with CKD outpatients and you will also spend some time working within Kettering General Hospital to provide a service to renal inpatients. The post offers a good variety of clinical work and an excellent opportunity to work in an established MDT. There are 3 experienced renal dietitians working within NHFT and you will be managed by the renal dietetic team lead. It is an exciting time to be working within chronic kidney disease and you will be able to make a significant contribution to the health of people suffering with CKD.
Renal dietetics is a rewarding specialty to work within, so if you are looking for a change, or career progression this might be your prefect job. There will be good dietetic clinical support and supervision, especially for those who have not worked within the speciality before.
You will predominantly deliver a service to out-patients who have chronic kidney disease stages 4-5 across the county and there may be opportunity to provide an inpatient service to KGH for dialysis patients who have been admitted. You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team on inpatient wards, and work with the Nephrology team with both inpatients and outpatients

• Telephone clinics for advanced kidney care, some clinics may be attended in person and off main site.
• Providing in-patient care for dialysis patients and advanced kidney care patients who may require specialist nutrition advice
• Undertaking comprehensive assessment of patients with complex presentations, multipathologies within acute inpatient and outpatient settings and provide effective monitoring.
• Training for staff, including dietitians, nurses and doctors.
• Formulating individual management and treatment plans for patients using advanced clinical reasoning and developing comprehensive discharge plans including advice on appropriate ACBS prescribable enteral feeds and supplements to be used. This includes secondary prevention
• Evaluating patients’ progress and measuring outcomes and contribute to and implement service improvement work
• Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
  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.
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  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