Home Enteral Feeding Specialist Dietitian
Job summary
We have an exciting and rare opportunity for an experienced Dietitian to join our Home Enteral Feeding team.
We would love to show you our department. Follow us on social media at Instagram cddftdietitians, X (Twitter) @CDDFTDietitian.
We are a proactive department with a strong focus on service improvement, digital advancement and staff development. We have a preceptorship programme for new staff, regular clinical supervision and lots of CPD opportunities to support career progression.
The Home Enteral Feeding team are previous winners of the Trust sustainability award for work around reducing use of plastic items. They also hold extended scope for feeding tube related procedures.
County Durham is an excellent place to live. With beautiful countryside and coastlines alongside interesting towns and cities. There are excellent transport links to Newcastle (30 minutes via train from Darlington, 12 minutes via train from Durham) and York (30 minutes via train from Darlington) as well as having rail links to other UK cities and international travel from Newcastle and Teesside International Airport
Main duties of the job
The Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian provides dietetic care pre and post feeding tube insertion. The post holder will provide troubleshooting advice. All Dietitians within the team hold extended scope for tube related procedures. Care is provided to patients via a telephone service, home visiting, , ward visits, clinics and joint MDT appointments. The service is provided via an of FP10 model - this means the Dietitian is responsible for ordering tube feeds directly from the 3rd party company.
The Home Enteral Feeding team enjoy close working relationships with our 3rd party company who provide enteral feeding, the hospital based gastroenterology team and community nursing colleagues.
The post holder will be based at University Hospital North Durham but will be required to undertake home visits within the allocated geographical area. At present this is likely to include the North of County Durham.
About us
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You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks
We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented
From April 1 2024 we are unable to offer sponsorship for healthcare roles that do not meet the minimum salary £23,200, to apply you must have Right to Work in the United Kingdom. If you are in the UK on a VISA please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post
Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for a their own caseload referred to the Home Enteral Feeding service by various healthcare professionals. Patients will be seen in a variety of settings including hospital wards, outpatient clinics, telephone clinics and home visits. The post holder will work closely with other Dietitians and members of the Home Enteral feeding team and wider multidisciplinary team.
The department trains dietetic students (A, B and C placement) and the post holder will have an active role in student training planning, co-ordination and assessment
The Nutrition and Dietetic service is structured into teams; secondary care (incorporating nutrition support and critical care), bariatrics, primary care (incorporating care home training), adult & paediatric diabetes, adult Home Enteral Feeding, paediatrics (incorporating Home Enteral Feeding and paediatric weight management). the nutrition and dietetic service comprises of 6 teams, with 49 Dietitians, 1 Specialist Nurse, 4 Dietetic assistants and we are supported by central administration. We are based on 4 sites in the County, at Darlington Memorial Hospital, University Hospital North Durham, Bishop Auckland Hospital and Shotley Bridge Hospital.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- BSc(hons) / BSc / Diploma/ Msc Dietetics Clinical supervisory skills
- Working towards or hold a Masters Degree. Leadership Training
Special Requirements
- Good time management, ability to work as part of a team, flexible approach to work, able to meet the travel requirements of the post
Experience
- Significant post registration experience
- Previous experience of working in a variety of clinical settings Experience of working within MDT environments Experience of working within the field of Nutritional Support
- Previous experience of audit and research including submission / presentation to journals / conferences
- Previous experience of working within MDT
- Previous experience of extended scope work - tube related care
- Previous experience of enteral tube feeding
Special Skills & Knowledge
- IT skills
- Completion of post-graduate specialist education e.g.PENG course or other.
- Ability to plan, initiate and evaluate new services and manage change Has a highly developed understanding of the changing NHS environment and its impact on service provision and staff.
- Experience of using SystmOne and Cerner or other electronic patient record system
Statutory Registration
- Current registration as Dietitian with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Member of British Dietetic Association
- Member of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Group
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University Hospital Of North Durham
North Road
Durham
DH1 5TW
https://www.cddft.nhs.uk/
- Company
- County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom DH1 5TW
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom DH1 5TW
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year
- Posted