Primary Care Dietitian

OverviewWe are seeking a dietitian with good clinical knowledge and a commitment to progress within our innovative team to establish a career in community dietetics. This role will provide you with a wide portfolio of clinical experience in nutrition support, chronic disease management and preventative medicine. You will be joining an award-winning team of highly experienced community dietitians who hold regular peer support meetings and provide 1:1 Practice supervision to facilitate clinical excellence and personal development.

You will participate in our annual audit programme, student training and encouraged to develop innovative service changes alongside senior colleagues. You will be managing your own clinical caseload and will see patients at outpatient clinics (both face to face and virtually). You will be supported to develop your clinical competencies for nutrition support and long term conditions.

You must be able to demonstrate enthusiasm for working in a community setting. Communicating evidence-based personalised dietetic advice to the diverse population of Brent in an engaging style is a key component of this position.

Responsibilities

Provide a dietetic service including appropriate dietary assessment and treatment in the outpatient clinic setting (face-to-face and virtual).

Manage your own clinical caseload and see patients at outpatient clinics (face-to-face and virtual).

Liaise with the Specialist Primary Care Dietitians when additional guidance is required or a patient has complex clinical needs.

Work autonomously to calculate energy requirements and to recommend food fortification to meet nutritional requirements or an appropriate prescription for oral nutrition supplements.

Apply communication, negotiation and counselling skills to empower patients to achieve long term lifestyle and behavioural changes, taking into account emotional, physical, social and psychological barriers as well as influences on change such as depression, dementia, language difficulties, resistant attitudes, aggression, behavioural problems, and mental illness.

Qualifications / Requirements

Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm for working in a community setting and to communicate evidence-based personalised dietetic advice to a diverse population.

Experience in nutrition support, chronic disease management and preventative medicine is desirable.

Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within an award-winning team of community dietitians; ability to participate in audits, student training and service development.

Strong communication, negotiation and counselling skills to empower long-term behavioural change.

Equality, Diversity and InclusionAt CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH has active BAME and LGBTQI networks: Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN), Race Equality Network, Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff. Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH. The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our website.

BenefitsJust as we care about our patients'' well-being, we care about yours! We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role

Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up)

Flexible working options

Annual travel card loan

Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

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