Highly Specialist Dietitian

Job description

Job responsibilities

Rampton Hospital is one of three High Secure hospitals in England and Wales caring for 300 adults who have been admitted for treatment under the Mental Health Act (1986). The Hospital's mission is to work with commissioners, patients, carers and staff to lead the development and provision of high quality, cost effective, secure forensic health care.

This role provides a wonderful opportunity to develop clinical and professional skills working as a key member of a highly specialised multidisciplinary team. You will work closely with a team consisting of speech and language therapists, specialist mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, and social workers. You will be encouraged to participate in training, service development and clinical meetings. A flexible attitude, good interpersonal and team working skills are essential along with an excellent knowledge of various nutritional interventions.

We are looking for someone to join our team on a fixed term of 12 months, providing dietetic assessment's and interventions. If you are looking for a challenge and opportunities to learn and develop dietetic service within the mental health setting, please do get in contact; we are looking forward to hearing from you!

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Person Specification

Physical Requirments

Essential

• Physical skills in line with MVA Breakaway where applicable
• Covering large distances walking around the site.
• Prolonged use of VDA equipment.

Qualifications

Essential

• Master's Degree or equivalent post grad Qualification leading to registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Dietitian
• Membership of British Dietetic Association (BDA).
• Appropriate range of post registration specialist professional knowledge and experience acquired through recognised academic study and practical clinical education.

Desirable

• Professional body Special interest group

Training

Essential

• Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD highly including specialist knowledge of dietetic interventions and evaluations.
• Leadership training
• Clinical education

Desirable

• Post-graduate training specific to client group and specialist areas of eating disorders and disordered feeding.

Experience

Essential

• Working experience of assessing and managing a complex adult caseload in specialist areas of Mental health and or forensics
• Experience of enteral tube feeding.
• Experience of working with eating disorders and disordered eating.
• Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Experience of designing and delivering different learning and development opportunities for staff teams.
• Experience in developing evaluation / audit tools and resources as part of profession/multi-professional team
• Experience of leading the clinical and professional development of others including students

Desirable

• Experience of leading / managing project work
• Experience of research, audit, service evaluation and/or quality improvement projects - setting up, evaluating, reporting and application
• Identifies clinical risks and carries out MDT/ Trust Risk assessments and formulation for individuals, groups or services highlighting needs
• Experience of collaboration across teams, services, and other stakeholders outside of the Trust

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly specialist applied clinical knowledge
• Applied knowledge of risk assessment within field of clinical practice
• Knowledge of National Policy and guidance and impact on local practice.
• Applied leadership knowledge.
• Facilitation of learning Course
• Knowledge of Risk Assessment and ability to ensure effective risk management strategies within specialism.

Desirable

• Highly specialist knowledge of how mental and physical health contribute to risk assessment and support management.
• Contributed to regional and national clinical projects and/or strategic work
• Advanced Facilitation of learning Course

Skills

Essential

• Empathetic and psychologically minded
• Advanced behaviour change skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for a variety of audiences, and in situations
• Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload
• Excellent clinical reasoning skills
• Leadership skills
• Extensive experience of supporting other staff and students
• Motivated and a motivator
• Team builder and team member Autonomous and able to work without direct supervision
• Reflective practitioner
• Ability to manage own wellbeing with access to supervision to sustain this.
• IT skills - to support clinical and service needs and developments

Values & Behaviours

Essential

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Values - Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork.
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role.

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel between sites

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rampton High Secure Hospital

Rampton Hospital

Retford

DN22 0PD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)