Additionally, the role includes responsibilities such as prescribing enteral or parenteral nutrition, writing diet sheets and meal plans, and communicating complex nutritional information to healthcare team members. The position offers opportunities for professional development and could be considered at a Band 5 developmental level, with progression to Band 6, depending on the applicant's experience and needs.
To provide specialist nutritional advice alongside the band 7 Macmillan dietitian's and support to patients with a diagnosis of cancer within South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust as part of the multi-professional Cancer Support Team. To be a source of expertise on nutrition and cancer issues within the Trust and South Devon. We are committed to supporting our teams and the individuals that join cancer services to develop and to thrive within their career pathways offering excellent opportunities for professional and personal development.
A Band 5 developmental positional may be considered ( Band 5 £25,655-£31,534 per annum progressing to Band 6 £32,306 - £39,027 per annum).
To work alongside the Macmillan dietitians to deliver a nutrition service and provide support and advice to patients with cancer.
This is a patient facing post with daily presence within the acute ward setting.
To assist in the formulation and integration of specialist dietetic care into overall cancer care as required by the clinical need of the patient.
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To provide evidence based, comprehensive and holistic nutritional and dietetic support to patients, carers and families who are referred to the service.
To be responsible for the assessment of the patients current nutritional intake and status, calculation of the patients nutritional intake and status, calculation of the patients nutritional requirements and providing advice on achieving and maintaining optimum nutrition.
To be responsible in collaboration with the Specialist lead cancer dietitian for providing appropriate and continual follow up throughout the patients cancer care pathway to ensure advice is followed and its aims are being achieved and that advice is altered according to the patients changing situation.
To be responsible for all aspects of the dietary treatment prescribed, which will be for enteral or parenteral nutrition as indicated by the patients clinical condition.
To formulate feeding regimes and prescribe a wide range of artificial feeds based on medical condition, fluid management and biochemistry.
To write individual diet sheets, meal plans and recipes to support verbal advice and support change.
To provide appropriate emotional support to patients and their families/carers as required and to identify any other problems and issues (eg. symptoms, financial, mobility) an individual patient is experiencing and refer on to the appropriate cancer support team member.
To be responsible for communicating complex clinical and nutritional information to other members of the Cancer Support Team, Upper GI MDT, Haematology MDT and other relevant health care professionals.
To be responsible for the training, support and follow up of patients with cancer going home with enteral tube feeding after complex upper GI cancer surgery.
To identify patients are moving from active treatment to palliative care and change your dietetic aims and planned input accordingly.
To identify when a received dietetic referral may not be appropriate and to document reasons for not seeing patient.
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