Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Specialist Adult Inpatient Dietitian
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Have you ever wondered what happened to your patients once they transferred to a community hospital ward? Would you enjoy seeing how their dietetic care continues in a community setting? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has a vacancy in our high profile and dynamic community hospital inpatient team. This role can be flexed to nurture individuals at or near the start of their career or can build on and develop skills for more experienced dietitians.
This unique post is part of a multi professional community hospitals’ dietetic team with good support from dietetic assistant practitioners. The team leads enteral feeding and supplement prescribing and provides high quality nutritional care at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital in Birmingham. Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role. You will also have opportunity to work alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding knowledge and practice.
Key Responsibilities
- To work as part of the Inpatient Dietetic Team and through this contribute to the development of nutrition support initiatives such as outcome measures, nutritional assessment and care pathways. This involves taking particular responsibility for initiatives and issues relating to enteral feeding in wards, such as the maintenance of the Trust Enteral Feeding Policy.
- To manage a complex and diverse caseload of inpatients which includes liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely and cost effective nutrition support for patients who are enterally fed or on oral nutritional supplements.
- To communicate effectively with colleagues within and outside the department to facilitate effective patient care, service development and multidisciplinary working. This includes attending relevant meetings regarding the patients to represent their nutrition and dietetic care.
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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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- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully.
- Please be aware that BCHC utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC and any correspondence will be sent via TRAC. We advise that you check your junk/spam email
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Lucy Davis
- Job title: Service Clinical Manager
- Email address: Lucy.davis23@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0121 683 2300
Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Lucy Davis – lucy.davis23@nhs.net / 0121 683 2300 or Matt Keogh matthew.keogh@nhs.net 0121 466 6388
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