Dietetic Clinical Lead for Care Homes

Job summary

Dietetic Clinical Lead for Care Homes - Band 7 - 18.75 hours per week.

Contract: Fixed term - 1 year

Base: Wokingham Hospital

Location: Berkshire-wide

This exciting new post will work as part of the Care Home Support Team to sustain and improve the quality of patient care by supporting care home staff across Berkshire. You will help raise awareness and understanding of supporting residents with their nutritional needs and reduce attendances and admissions to hospital. You will have access to IT equipment to enable you to work remotely from home and a range of office bases across Berkshire, as well as working face to face within the care homes.

You will be integrated within the core Berkshire wide dietetic team. We strongly value continuing professional development and offer an employee-led appraisal process and personal development plan. We will support you to develop your ideas for research and audit and offer collaboration and training with our Research & Development and Clinical Effectiveness teams. We also engage in student training and facilitate teaching opportunities.

We are continually striving to improve the service we offer our patients and embrace new ways of working via the QMIS system.

We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and committed dietitians to join this forward-thinking team.

The post holder would ideally have a valid UK licence and access to a car or ability to travel to multiple locations across Berkshire West

Main duties of the job

• To ensure care home residents are receiving optimal nutrition and hydration care by delivering a locally developed training programme, to health care professionals in Nursing Homes and Residential Homes within Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
• To lead on the development and delivery of dietetic educational programmes on nutritional care for care home staff, GPs, other health care professionals and members of the Care Homes MDT
• To lead on development of dietary protocols and guidelines for the service and contribute to the policies for the team as a whole.
• To take an active role within the general functioning of the Dietetic Department, including contributing to student training
• To support community colleagues and Care Home staff in the management of complex dietetic scenarios including dysphagia and dementia.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites