Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Dietitian

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Job summary

Are you a dietitian looking for a new experience?

We have a unique opportunity to work for the Leeds & West Yorkshire ME/CFS Service and for the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine.

The Leeds & West Yorkshire Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue (ME/CFS) Service is an outpatient service based at the Newsam Centre. We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietician to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.

Working as part of a collaborative, holistic MDT in this fascinating clinical field, you will have the opportunity to use and develop a wide range of dietetic knowledge and skills in face-to-face and remote consultations. You will support patients experiencing unwanted weight loss and gain, IBS symptoms and food hypersensitivity, and provide healthy eating and supplement advice for fatigue management.

You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.

The National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine is a specialist service that receives referrals from anywhere in the UK for people with Persistent Physical Symptoms/Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Long-Term Conditions. We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietitian to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.

Main duties of the job

To develop, provide and maintain a clinical dietetic service within Liaison Psychiatry services at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Act as a lead source of expertise on dietetics and nutrition for other staff, and service users including the provision of education and training and relevant research.

You will be joining a well-established MDT and you will have the opportunity to use a range of dietetic skills with a diverse caseload such as disordered eating; enteral feeding; diabetes; weight management; nutritional support; food intolerance and allergies; IBS; re-feeding syndrome.

You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.

Both services have well established MDTs, and the dietitian will form an integral component to this.

Mental health experience is desirable but not essential as the trust has an established management and clinical support structure including 12-month preceptorship trust wide programme (for all new graduate nurses and AHPs) to address all development needs. We also have regular clinical and management supervision, monthly trust wide dietetic meeting and access to peer support and other development opportunities.

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Date posted

01 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

173-40724-LPS

Job locations

Newsam Centre and Leeds General Infirmary

Some remote working

Leeds

LS1 3EX

Job description

Job responsibilities

To offer 1:1 treatment to patients under both services ensuring that their dietic needs are assessed and treated.To demonstrate knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within ME/CFS Services and psychological medicine and implement appropriate treatment interventions/dietary advice.To plan, coordinate and deliver nutrition/ dietetic training for professional and support staff.The primary but not exclusive clinical focus for this role will be working with service users requiring dietary advice following nutritional screening.To undertake an assessment of service users nutritional needs including the calculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition, and other physical and social parameters.To monitor, evaluate and adjust specialised dietetic treatment to service users.

Please note that you can apply for a 2 day a week secondment or permanent position across both the ME/CFS Service and the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine. OR 1 day a week in either service on a secondment or permanent basis. Candidates are asked to specify their preferred option on their application form.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc Hons degree in nutrition and dietetics or post graduate diploma in dietetics
HCPC registered Dietitian

Experience

Essential

Experience/ interest in working in a mental health and physical health setting
Knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within ME/CFS Services and mental health
Experience in at least TWO of the following clinical areas Diabetes Weight management Eating disorders ME/CFS Gastroenterology Food allergies / intolerances Enteral feeding

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc Hons degree in nutrition and dietetics or post graduate diploma in dietetics
HCPC registered Dietitian

Experience

Essential

Experience/ interest in working in a mental health and physical health setting
Knowledge of the common dietary difficulties seen within ME/CFS Services and mental health
Experience in at least TWO of the following clinical areas Diabetes Weight management Eating disorders ME/CFS Gastroenterology Food allergies / intolerances Enteral feeding

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.

UK Registration

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

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newsam Centre and Leeds General Infirmary

Some remote working

Leeds

LS1 3EX

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newsam Centre and Leeds General Infirmary

Some remote working

Leeds

LS1 3EX

Employer's website

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