Dietitian - Community

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 600+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Dietitian to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Location: Ipswich

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Dietitian Pay Rate: £25 per hour (assignment rate)

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties of the Dietitian:

• To be a lead dietitian responsible for the delivery of a high quality, evidence-based dietetic care to a complex case load of patients in a variety of care settings, which could include acute and community settings e.g. wards, outpatient clinics and patients’ homes.
• To manage a caseload of home visits and where need home enteral feed patients
• To supervise junior member of staff including band 4 assistant practitioners.
• To promote the MUST and Food First projects, as well as, support the promotion of cost effective prescribing of oral nutritional supplements.
• To provide education and training for professional colleagues on aspects of nutritional and dietary care as required.
• To contribute to the dietetic service in the community providing a source of expertise to patients, carers, medical practitioners and allied health professionals and social care professionals as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• To provide specialist input into the planning, development and evaluation of dietetic services within your team and for defined projects.
• To manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in a range of settings using evidence- based, client-centred principles to assess, plan and evaluate specialised dietetic interventions.
• To undertake nutritional assessments, taking into consideration biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and dietary intake.
• To work with patients and carers to identify nutrition-related goals as part of an overall care plan.
• To plan, implement and evaluate interventions in partnership with patients using a range of treatment techniques to meet individuals’ nutritional requirements.
• To work in a holistic way and participate in patient care meetings to ensure that dietetic outcomes influence any decision regarding overall care plan.
• To provide support, education and advice to patients and carers regarding aspects of diet therapy e.g. dietary modification, food fortification, nutritional supplementation, enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• To ensure that any treatment plan is compatible with the patients lifestyle, religious and cultural beliefs functional ability and health outcome.
• To plan and prioritise own clinical caseload and that of dietetic students and support staff on a daily basis.

Requirements of the Dietitian:

• Degree or equivalent in dietetics
• Recent UK experience working as an Dietitian
• Registered with the HCPC to work in the UK

Contact:

This Dietitian job is advertised by Ale3x Blackwell; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Band 5, Band 6 & Band 7 Dietitians with a passion in nutrition, experience working with nutritionists & health nutrition as we have many dietitian roles that could be suitable.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Dietitian role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.