Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Dietitian to work in York on a part time or full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Dietitian job is £38,000 per annum.
Duties:
- Provide a specialist dietetic service to inpatients as a source of expertise on the dietary management of eating disorders to the multi-disciplinary team, community health professionals and others involved in the care of our patients
- Provide a specialist dietetic service to inpatients with eating disorders
- Working with patients and the multi-disciplinary team to identify and address complex psychological and social factors that affect compliance with dietary treatment, thus facilitating permanent lifestyle changes
- Provide specialist advice to patients with eating disorders deemed to be at high risk of medical or physical complications, including re-feeding syndrome
- Undertake comprehensive assessments of individual patient’s diets and lifestyle to formulate individualised management and treatment plans ensuring optimal outcomes whilst minimising risk
- Assessment will include interpretation of anthropometric, biochemical and clinical indicators, weight history and dietary analysis
- Prescribing replacement plans using supplements and overseeing NG feeding replacement plans
- Communicate effectively with patients
- Giving advice to patients with emotional, physical and psychological difficulties where acceptance can be challenging and patients can become distressed
- Occasionally involve working in conditions requiring the ability to react sensitively where patients have a history of abuse
- Provide a motivating force for patients, utilising high quality communication skills – this would involve a behavioural therapy approach
- Communicate with referring agents and other agents as necessary, through personal, written, telephone or email contact
- Develop and run group education sessions covering all relevant nutrition topics, to allow patients to use this information in their recovery
- Work with an awareness of the Eating Disorders guidelines (NICE, MEED) for the treatment of eating disorders, using evidence-based practice and outcome measures to inform service development
- Work with all disciplines and the catering department to prescribe dietary intake for each patient throughout their admission
- Provide dietary advice to patients and their families to enable them to manage their leave breaks from the unit, and to accommodate changes made at multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings regarding exercise and dietary intake
- Attend and contribute to MDT meetings and CPA review meetings
- Lead discussions during these meetings, about possible changes in diet
- Develop and continually review the unit menus to reflect current nutrition recommendations, taking into account specific clinical problems that may be encountered such as reduced frequency of bowel opening and subsequent avoidance of pharmacotherapy where possible
Requirements of the Dietitian:
- Be aware of patients at high psychiatric risk (for example, suicide) and liaise with the multi-disciplinary team regarding the management of these patients
- Demonstrate awareness of safeguarding principles in all dealings with young people and their families
- BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or BSc in relevant science plus post-graduate diploma in dietetics
- Registered Dietitian with Health Professions Council
- Knowledge of current best practice in eating disorders
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities and relevant legislation
- Evidence of CPD
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Ability to give and receive feedback constructively
- Conflict resolution skills
- Knowledge of equality and diversity issues
- Experience of effective MDT working
- Training and teaching skills, including presentation skills
- Experience of audit and service development
- Report writing skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to prioritise tasks
- Good time management
- Leadership skills
- Excellent communicator
- Self-motivated
- Adaptable
- Previous dietetic experience post qualification NHS experience
Contact:
This Dietitian job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
