Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Acute Dietitian
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The Nutrition and Dietetic Service at Lister Hospital
The Nutrition and Dietetic Service at Lister Hospital have an exciting opportunity for a dietitian to join their acute team.
Role Description
Within this role, you will be providing dietetic care for the inpatient service in areas such as care of the elderly, surgical, oncology and general medicine as well as outpatient clinic within East and North Hertfordshire. Additionally, you will input into group education sessions such as the cardiac rehab programme.
As a member of this friendly and dedicated team, you will gain varied experience across inpatient and outpatient settings, develop strong links with health and social care professionals, and will act as a valuable resource for both patients and professionals.
This post joins a larger team of Dietitians working across Hertfordshire within a number of specialties including paediatrics, neurology, and home enteral feeding. We also work in collaboration with a number of other Trusts and stakeholders providing aspects of dietetic care to patients within Hertfordshire.
Support and Development
You will be well supported and continuing professional development is encouraged through appraisal, mentoring, and training. There will be opportunities to partake in shadowing specialties such as critical care and oncology. You will be supported in your position as a student educator for University of Hertfordshire student dietitians.
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The service is supported by a team of administrators as well as dietetic assistants, and there are IT facilities to enable mobile working.
The Successful Candidate Will
- Hold a clinical inpatient caseload as well as responsibility for designated outpatient clinic
- Undertake comprehensive nutritional assessments of patients, making clinical judgements on a range of complex dietetic problems resulting in individualized management and treatment plans
- Use a real-food (food-based) approach and, where indicated, provide appropriate advice around nutritional supplementation
- Liaise with other healthcare professionals such as speech and language therapy, nursing, medical teams, as well as others such as catering
- Undertake service development opportunities such as reviewing and creating patient literature and nutrition resources, audit, and contribute to clinical governance meetings
- Undertake professional and educational activities to develop knowledge and ensure maintenance of professional/clinical standards
- Provide supervision, feedback, and training to student dietitians
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A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.
You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff.
We put our patients, their families, and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities.
Our staff are proud to be Caring, Pioneering, and Inclusive in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds.
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Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Helen Arora
- Job title: Acute Team Lead Dietitian
- Email address: helen.arora@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07342062435
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