Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Dietitian
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Dietitian
We are excited to offer an opportunity for a skilled dietitian to join our collaborative team, leading nutritional support, specialist interventions and pathway optimisation across the Mental Health Care Division.
This exciting post is based across inpatient mental health services. You will manage a diverse caseload of patients requiring weight management support, including those with co-morbidities and patients requiring nutritional support. You will also support colleagues with their caseloads, provide supervision and develop confidence and competence as a team leader.
- Deliver daily ward-based clinics to assess and review patients
- Attend MDT meetings to communicate treatment plans and monitoring requirements
- Work closely with a range of health professionals
- Deliver nutritional screening training
- Support audit activity
- Contribute to the Nutrition and Hydration Strategy
Evidence-based practice and working within the British Dietetic Association Professional Code of Conduct are essential.
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The role may be considered as a Band 6 to Band 7 development post, offering experienced Band 6 practitioners the opportunity to progress once competencies are achieved. Competencies are expected within 3–6 months of commencement.
To provide specialist evidence based clinical care (and expertise and team leadership) to ensure an effective dietetic service which aims to maximise the nutritional status of service users within in-patient areas of the Mental Health Care Division.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Natalie Sutton
- Job title: Modern Matron - Physical Health
- Email address: natalie.sutton@merseycare.nhs.uk
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