Elysium Healthcare
Part time Dietitian
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Job Opportunity: Dietitian at Dunnock View
Join the team at Dunnock View, a service providing treatment for men and women who may have suffered trauma and are affected by mental health disorders. You will support service users within the hospital's secure mental health services with a range of conditions working as part of a uni-professional and multi-professional team. This position is part-time, working 22.5 hours per week.
Role Overview
As a Dietitian, you will manage a complex caseload, creating individual rapports with service users as you learn about their health concerns, goals, and dietary restrictions and preferences to create a healthy nutrition plan. You will deliver and offer contributions to the development of the specialist treatment plans and pathways as you maintain close contact with local community teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Assessing service users' weight and advising regarding weight, calories, and special meal plans.
- Working as an autonomous dietetic practitioner to carry a complex inpatient and outpatient caseload, using evidence-based and people-focused principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions.
- Conducting pre-admission screenings for new referrals while laying out the plan for future interventions.
- Liaising with the hospital's catering department to ensure that the menu is reviewed regularly, the allergen list, portioning sizes, and special menus are up to date.
- Supporting in the development and co-facilitation of any group or activity and staff training.
- Providing a weekly progress review and feedback to the multi-disciplinary team in ward rounds.
- Carrying out one-to-one nutrition counseling sessions to determine eating behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes about food and health, rationale for food choices, factors affecting eating behavior, and nutrition status.
- Carrying out one-to-one family support, helping families understand the complex relationship between food and health, as well as strategies for supporting the patient to eat at home.
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Requirements
- HCPC registered.
- BSc in Dietetics or postgraduate diploma in Dietetics.
- Post-qualification training.
- Post-qualifying experience of working with people with disordered eating, ideally in an inpatient setting.
- Knowledge and understanding of patients with mental illness.
- Commitment to maintaining knowledge and skills at a high level of professional competence.
Location
Address: Dunnock View, Tendring, Clacton-on-Sea, CO16 0BX.
What You'll Get
At Elysium Healthcare, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:
- Annual base salary of up to £50,000 pro rata.
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals.
- Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
- Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts.
- Life Assurance, for added peace of mind.
- Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
- 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be.
- Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time.
- Pension contribution, to help secure your future.
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About Your Next Employer
Elysium Healthcare has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
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