Community Dietician inSurbiton inSurbiton PUBLISHED
TUE 14 JAN 2025
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Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of community members, especially those with learning disabilities.
Collaboration with a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, enhancing professional development and teamwork.
Flexibility in working hours, allowing for a better work-life balance tailored to individual needs.
Chance to pioneer and run a new health and well-being intervention specifically designed for individuals with learning disabilities.
Access to ongoing personal development and training opportunities, fostering continual growth as a clinician.
Role involves providing specialized care to complex cases, allowing for the utilization and development of advanced clinical skills.
Your Healthcare CIC is seeking a Community Dietitian, based in Surbiton, to provide specialized dietetic services for adults with learning disabilities and complex nutritional needs. The role involves developing and implementing clinical pathways, delivering effective interventions, and offering specialist support within the Neurodevelopmental and Adult Community Services. The successful candidate will work independently and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, conducting assessments, managing weight management pathways, and ensuring effective communication with service users and caregivers.
This part-time position (15 hours per week) allows flexible scheduling and requires the postholder to support existing dieticians and work with patients referred from local hospitals and GPs. Candidates must exhibit strong clinical skills, emerging leadership abilities, and the capacity to contribute to multidisciplinary interventions. An Enhanced DBS check is necessary due to the role's contact with vulnerable adults.
This part-time position (15 hours per week) allows flexible scheduling and requires the postholder to support existing dieticians and work with patients referred from local hospitals and GPs. Candidates must exhibit strong clinical skills, emerging leadership abilities, and the capacity to contribute to multidisciplinary interventions. An Enhanced DBS check is necessary due to the role's contact with vulnerable adults.
Job Summary
We are looking for a specialist dietitian to continue to develop and provide evidenced based, collaborative and effective clinical pathways, interventions and processes for a number of key health conditions and presentations prevalent within the current dietetic learning disability and adult caseload . The postholder will work alongside our current dieticians and will focus on delivering outcomes for specifically agreed health conditions as well as offering more specialist support for those on the dietetic caseload presenting with highly complex nutritional needs. In the Neurodevelopmental service the successful candidate will also be responsible for setting up and running an exciting new health and well-being intervention that has been designed to meet the specific needs of people with learning disabilities.
In the Adult Community Service ( 6.75 hours a week) the post holder would primarily be offering a domiciliary service and also supporting the current postholder in duties associated with the Neurology Team and the 25 bed in-patient rehabilitation unit at Teddington Memorial Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The Neurodevelopment (NDS) service provides a service for adults with learning disabilities living in Kingston and Richmond boroughs. You would work independently in the community but also be an integral part of a well-established and dynamic multi-disciplinary team. We can offer flexibility in working schedule (15 hours a week).
In our Adult Community Service the postholder would primarily provide to patients referred from the local acute hospital, other community AHPs and GPs . These patients could present with the range of conditions of Care of the Elderly and of the general Adult caseload.
As specialist clinician within the both services you may also be asked to contribute more generally to multidisciplinary interventions and developments provided by our service and so excellent communication and clinical skills are required as well as emerging leadership skills.
The postholder would be supported by current postholders in each service and by the line management of each service. There would be joint working on personal development and training . Hours for this post can be flexible in discussion with the relevant services. The Organisation has a Flexible Working Policy and this post would be provided under this guidance in discussion with the Service Leads
About Us
The Organisation works as part of the NHS service provision , We support personal development and we actively link to other organisations that work with us locally to provide our services. .
If you would like to discuss any aspects of this role please contact: Deborah Green, Principal speech and language therapist ( NDS) , Tel: 02or or Andy Hamilton, Principal Therapist, Adult Community Services, Tel or email Due to the post including clinical contact with vulnerable adults the successful candidate will be required to undertake or evidence an Enhanced DBS check.
If you are successful at interview, please note we will take up references covering your last 3 years work history.
CLOSING DATE: 2nd February 2025
SHORTLIST: 3rd February 2025
INTERVIEWS: 13th February 2025
Your Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Date posted
09 January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£42,939 to £50,697 a year Inclusive of HCAS per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
B9811-25-0000
Job locations
Hollyfield House, 22 Hollyfield Road
Surbiton
KT5 9AL
Job Description
Job responsibilities
The post will contribute on the whole to the activity of their teams working across Richmond and Kingston boroughs.
4.1. Clinical
To provide a specialist dietetic service to the Neurodevelopmental service for adults with learning disabilities and Adult Community Therapies which includes the independent provision of specialist dietetic assessment and interventions for a complex caseload. Within the Neurodevelopmental service to take a designated lead on managing the weight management pathway for adults with a learning disability.
To provide a community service in liaison with other related dietetic posts in partner organisations e.g. Kingston Hospital, Home enteral feeding services, Nutricia, GPs
To communicate effectively with service users and carers to maximise specialist advice taken by the service user including information that is both complex or sensitive. This includes, where necessary, using interpreters for service users where English is not a first language and methods of effective communication adjustments for people with learning disabilities and expressive and receptive communication needs
To provide a specialist dietetic service to the clients on their caseloads with clinical needs that maybe distressing in nature including end of life care, disease progress
We are looking for a specialist dietitian to continue to develop and provide evidenced based, collaborative and effective clinical pathways, interventions and processes for a number of key health conditions and presentations prevalent within the current dietetic learning disability and adult caseload . The postholder will work alongside our current dieticians and will focus on delivering outcomes for specifically agreed health conditions as well as offering more specialist support for those on the dietetic caseload presenting with highly complex nutritional needs. In the Neurodevelopmental service the successful candidate will also be responsible for setting up and running an exciting new health and well-being intervention that has been designed to meet the specific needs of people with learning disabilities.
In the Adult Community Service ( 6.75 hours a week) the post holder would primarily be offering a domiciliary service and also supporting the current postholder in duties associated with the Neurology Team and the 25 bed in-patient rehabilitation unit at Teddington Memorial Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The Neurodevelopment (NDS) service provides a service for adults with learning disabilities living in Kingston and Richmond boroughs. You would work independently in the community but also be an integral part of a well-established and dynamic multi-disciplinary team. We can offer flexibility in working schedule (15 hours a week).
In our Adult Community Service the postholder would primarily provide to patients referred from the local acute hospital, other community AHPs and GPs . These patients could present with the range of conditions of Care of the Elderly and of the general Adult caseload.
As specialist clinician within the both services you may also be asked to contribute more generally to multidisciplinary interventions and developments provided by our service and so excellent communication and clinical skills are required as well as emerging leadership skills.
The postholder would be supported by current postholders in each service and by the line management of each service. There would be joint working on personal development and training . Hours for this post can be flexible in discussion with the relevant services. The Organisation has a Flexible Working Policy and this post would be provided under this guidance in discussion with the Service Leads
About Us
The Organisation works as part of the NHS service provision , We support personal development and we actively link to other organisations that work with us locally to provide our services. .
If you would like to discuss any aspects of this role please contact: Deborah Green, Principal speech and language therapist ( NDS) , Tel: 02or or Andy Hamilton, Principal Therapist, Adult Community Services, Tel or email Due to the post including clinical contact with vulnerable adults the successful candidate will be required to undertake or evidence an Enhanced DBS check.
If you are successful at interview, please note we will take up references covering your last 3 years work history.
CLOSING DATE: 2nd February 2025
SHORTLIST: 3rd February 2025
INTERVIEWS: 13th February 2025
Your Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Date posted
09 January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£42,939 to £50,697 a year Inclusive of HCAS per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
B9811-25-0000
Job locations
Hollyfield House, 22 Hollyfield Road
Surbiton
KT5 9AL
Job Description
Job responsibilities
- Job Purpose
- Dimensions
The post will contribute on the whole to the activity of their teams working across Richmond and Kingston boroughs.
4.1. Clinical
To provide a specialist dietetic service to the Neurodevelopmental service for adults with learning disabilities and Adult Community Therapies which includes the independent provision of specialist dietetic assessment and interventions for a complex caseload. Within the Neurodevelopmental service to take a designated lead on managing the weight management pathway for adults with a learning disability.
To provide a community service in liaison with other related dietetic posts in partner organisations e.g. Kingston Hospital, Home enteral feeding services, Nutricia, GPs
To communicate effectively with service users and carers to maximise specialist advice taken by the service user including information that is both complex or sensitive. This includes, where necessary, using interpreters for service users where English is not a first language and methods of effective communication adjustments for people with learning disabilities and expressive and receptive communication needs
To provide a specialist dietetic service to the clients on their caseloads with clinical needs that maybe distressing in nature including end of life care, disease progress
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