Job summary
Are you looking for a change, an opportunity to try another role or skill set? A fantastic opening has arisen to join our nationally renowned Home Enteral Feeding Service in Bristol - Home Management Services (HMS). This is a maternity cover position until November 2024. We are proud to be part of the wider Nutrition and Dietetic team at UHBW.
You will join the supportive team of experienced and friendly Dietitians, Assistants, and administrative staff, who support a large caseload of people enterally feeding in the community - currently 730 patients across the full age spectrum. We work in close partnership with Nutricia, through the enteral feeding contract. Based at Central Health Clinic in Bristol, we cover an area of 500 square miles, stretching from Weston-Super-Mare to Bath and Thornbury, however with fantastic IT infrastructure we support remote working, meaning you will not have to travel into the city centre on a daily basis.
You will need an enquiring mind coupled with enthusiasm to get the best out of this opportunity, and, as daily travel is an integral part of the job, you must be a driver with your own transport.
We offer excellent opportunities for professional and personal development and encourage involvement in audit, service evaluation and research, and take an active part in student training.
Work-life balance and staff wellbeing is very important to us - we benefit from excellent wellbeing resources, supervision, and flexible working.
Main duties of the job
The service supports tube fed adults and children who live in their own homes, care homes and other community facilities. You will manage your own caseload and diary, so being able to manage your time efficiently, work on your own initiative, but also as part of a wider multi-professional team are essential attributes. Excellent interpersonal skills and effective communication skills are vital, with a proven ability to communicate with people from wide socio-economic & cultural backgrounds.
This comprehensive service includes:
- Expert dietetic advice for individually referred patients in the community
- Assessment of patients on an individual basis
- The provision of evidence-based information and support relating to nutrition and complex conditions
- 'Prescription' of the most appropriate tube feeding regimen in accordance with prescribing protocols (off FP10)
- Arrangement for the delivery of the components of the regimen
- Close liaison with all personnel (particularly specialist company nurses) involved in the management of the patient
- Communication about complex programs of care to patients and their carers
- Robust monitoring and follow-up arrangements
- Working on a multi-professional, multi-agency basis
- Involvement in a range of education, training and audit activities
- The development of clinical guidelines with peers
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What are you waiting for? If are you keen to try community working, and looking to build longer term working relationships with patients and carers - come and join us at UHBW - you will really make a difference.
Please pick up the phone and call us for a conversation about the role - we welcome any questions or queries you may have, and are open to exploring possibilities like secondment etc.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What are you waiting for? If are you keen to try community working, and looking to build longer term working relationships with patients and carers - come and join us at UHBW - you will really make a difference.
Please pick up the phone and call us for a conversation about the role - we welcome any questions or queries you may have, and are open to exploring possibilities like secondment etc.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Proven Dietetic experience in enteral nutrition support
- Proven Dietetic experience in chronic disease management
- Working as part of a multi-professional team
- Student Training
- Teaching experience
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of Home Enteral Nutrition
- Experience of paediatrics
- Audit experience
- Experience of supervision of junior staff
- Experience of writing protocols and guidelines
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Experience of continuing professional development
- Degree/PostGrad qualification in Nutrition or Dietetics
- Clinical supervisory skills course (basic)
- PEN Group clinical update course
Desirable
- BDA paediatric modules 1 and 2
- BDA membership
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good communication skills at all levels - oral, written, interpersonal
- Good organisational skills
- Time management
- Teaching/presentation skills in a variety of settings & to professional groups/grades
- Computer skills and use of dietary analysis programmes
- Advanced clinical reasoning
- Behaviour and motivational interviewing skills
- Able to maintain effective working relationships across different professions
- Insight & sensitivity
- Team player and able to maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to process highly complex information or situations
- Ability to work under own initiative
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviours of patients, carers & students
- Access to transport in order to deliver community working
Desirable
- Active/committee member of BDA Specialist Interest group
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Proven Dietetic experience in enteral nutrition support
- Proven Dietetic experience in chronic disease management
- Working as part of a multi-professional team
- Student Training
- Teaching experience
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of Home Enteral Nutrition
- Experience of paediatrics
- Audit experience
- Experience of supervision of junior staff
- Experience of writing protocols and guidelines
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Experience of continuing professional development
- Degree/PostGrad qualification in Nutrition or Dietetics
- Clinical supervisory skills course (basic)
- PEN Group clinical update course
Desirable
- BDA paediatric modules 1 and 2
- BDA membership
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good communication skills at all levels - oral, written, interpersonal
- Good organisational skills
- Time management
- Teaching/presentation skills in a variety of settings & to professional groups/grades
- Computer skills and use of dietary analysis programmes
- Advanced clinical reasoning
- Behaviour and motivational interviewing skills
- Able to maintain effective working relationships across different professions
- Insight & sensitivity
- Team player and able to maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to process highly complex information or situations
- Ability to work under own initiative
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviours of patients, carers & students
- Access to transport in order to deliver community working
Desirable
- Active/committee member of BDA Specialist Interest group
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
