Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Community Dietitian Nutrition Support
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About the Role
Are you passionate about nutrition support and keen to extend your skills in managing complex patients? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced dietitian to join our friendly community nutrition support team.
Our Band 6s provide specialist assessment & intervention for community patients requiring home enteral feeding and/or complex oral nutrition support, acting as a resource for junior staff and other health professionals in the management of undernutrition across Birmingham.
What We Are Looking For
We are seeking dietitians with some experience of nutrition support, with excellent communication and time management skills, and a patient-centred and solution-focused professional practice.
What We Offer
We offer a flexible working environment in a supportive team, with the opportunity to build fulfilling relationships with your patients and colleagues.
Job Responsibilities
You will manage a caseload of home enteral feeding and complex oral nutrition support patients in your own defined geographical area in Birmingham – this includes visiting patients in their own homes and care homes, and carrying out community clinics via telephone or in health centres around the city. We try to arrange this practically to avoid excessive travel time for our team members.
After a comprehensive induction you will have a high degree of autonomy in managing your caseload but we are a welcoming supportive team – there is always someone available to message or call, and we meet regularly face to face for clinical supervision and service development.
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You will give clinical supervision to our Band 4 and 5s, who see the majority of our oral nutrition support patients, supporting their development by giving them graded exposure to the more complex patients on your caseload. We are also proud to provide highly rated supervision to dietetic learners and apprentices.
Key Skills and Qualities
The most important skills and qualities for success in this role are:
- The ability to communicate with a diverse range of people and build strong working relationships
- The willingness to build on and share your clinical knowledge in nutrition support and the medical conditions our patients live with
- Developing the ability to take complex, evidence-based decisions both in the management of individual patients and prioritisation of your overall caseload.
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sinead Walsh
- Job Title: Service Clinical Manager
- Email Address: sinead.walsh@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 0121 683 2300
Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us for an informal discussion. We would be delighted to facilitate a visit to the department, shadowing with the team, and/or put you in touch with current team members to find out more about our work.
While this post is advertised as full time, we welcome applications from dietitians seeking flexible and/or part-time working.
To discuss any of the above, please contact:
- Kellie Thursfield, Nutrition Support Team Leader, kellie.thursfield1@nhs.net
- Lydia Reebye, Highly Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian, lydia.reebye@nhs.net
- Sinead Walsh, Service Clinical Manager, sinead.walsh@nhs.net
All can be reached on 0121 683 2300.
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