Band 5 Community Dietitian Nutrition Support | Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This post is open to applicants who are qualified Dietitians who hold current registration with the Health Care Professions Council in the UK or those who have recently completed their degree and are awaiting their professional registration as a Dietitian.

Have you wondered what happens to your patients once they leave the hospital ward? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has a vacancy in our high-profile team and is looking for someone like you to help start your career and develop your skills.

This role will work across our community hospitals, with support from senior colleagues. You will support patients mainly in the areas of malnutrition and enteral feeding, working alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding skills. There are also opportunities to observe our other specialist teams.

Community working is its own specialism; you will develop communication, negotiation, networking and promotion skills, liaising with GPs and specialist MDTs across care sectors. As you progress there will be a high degree of autonomy in your practice and day-to-day organisation, supported by colleagues.

BCN provides a comprehensive citywide service for the Birmingham ICB and employs over 70 staff. We support dietetic A, B & C placements from local higher education institutions.

This post is likely to involve working in all aspects of nutrition support over the period of the post, including ensuring the prescribing of oral nutritional supplements is as clinically appropriate and effective as possible, providing a dietetic service to our bedded units, nutrition support clinics and some domiciliary caseload work with supervision from a senior dietitian. The post will also involve staff training around the use of MUST in a variety of settings and participation in the Trust’s innovative work on Nutrition & Hydration.

This role will actively promote the prevention of under nutrition within a community setting.

Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all sites, access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.

The department has a structured approach to Clinical Governance and your personal development via preceptorship, annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5,000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

• Adhere to the standards of conduct, performance and ethics and the dietitians standards of proficiency of the Health Professions Council.
• Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients within your care.
• Be aware of your level of responsibility and accountability within the service, guided by policies, procedures and the support of peers.
• Remain aware of the limitation of own knowledge and experience and seek advice and guidance as required.
• Act in a professional manner promoting the organisation, the role of the dietitian and the importance of nutritional care.
• Be responsible for maintaining and demonstrating own competence to practice through participation in appraisal process and CPD within the framework of the professional portfolio,…