Job summary
Ellern Mede are looking for a experienced Dietitian to join our branch in Mill Hill, Ridgeway. We offer Full-time and Part-time hours, Typical hours would be 09:00 - 17:30 Monday to Friday, Part - time hours we can also accomdate for.
Salary range per annum: £38,000 - £48,000.
Main duties of the job
MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:
To support the delivery and development of dietetics within the team
To work closely with the Ellern Mede multi-disciplinary team
To provide specialist dietetic advice and support to children, young people & their families receiving treatment at Ellern Mede.
To offer intensive dietetic support to young people, young adults & their families within the hospital setting, while on home leave and also preparing for discharge.
To have a highly flexible approach to work with a range eating disorder presentations.
About us
ELLERN MEDE RIDGEWAY
Eating Disorders are extraordinarily complex illnesses that present with abnormalities in physical and psychological functioning. The physical complications have the potential to cause permanent damage and in some cases are life threatening. The causes are complex and multi-factorial, including genetic, neurodevelopmental and environmental influences. They require a comprehensive treatment programme including medical, psychiatric, psychological, social and dietetic interventions.
Ellern Mede offers two treatment programmes, a Recovery Unit and a High Dependency Unit (HDU). We aim to stabilise patients’ physical and psychological states as rapidly as possible for transfer to step down service. The HDU admits patients whose illness requires more intense levels of clinical involvement and nursing. The service is able to admit patients requiring treatment under mental health legislation. The aims of the services are to improve the patients’ health and dependency needs sufficiently for transfer to a regular eating disorder unit or to the community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Ellern Mede are looking for a experienced Dietitian to join our branch in Mill Hill, Ridgeway. We offer Full-time and Part-time hours, Typical hours would be 09:00 - 17:30 Monday to Friday, Part - time hours we can also accomdate for.
Salary range per annum: £38,000 - £48,000.
MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:
- To support the delivery and development of dietetics within the team
- To work closely with the Ellern Mede multi-disciplinary team
- To provide specialist dietetic advice and support to children, young people & their families receiving treatment at Ellern Mede.
- To offer intensive dietetic support to young people, young adults & their families within the hospital setting, while on home leave and also preparing for discharge.
- To have a highly flexible approach to work with a range eating disorder presentations.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- To participate in initial assessments and lead on anthropometry, diet history and activity levels etc
- To provide a family based treatment approach, supporting parents and careers along with the young people.
- To formulate and implement dietetic treatment plans based on evidence and best practice approach.
- Provide specialist dietetic support and psycho-education to young people presenting with a range of eating disorders, some of which may be treatment resistant.
- Carry out detailed nutritional assessment of food diaries in hospital and from home with the ability to highlight and address patterns of concerns and areas for improvement to help empower patients.
- Prepare individually tailored specialist feeding plans for oral supplements and nasogastric feeds plans.
- Liaise with, and support other professionals as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- To have knowledge and understanding of the principles of the Care Programme Approach (CPA) and to support and contribute to the CPA care planning process.
- Preparation of reports and assessments.
- Take responsibility for own case load, initiating, planning and reviewing care plans and, if appropriate in agreement with the line manager / patients consultant.
- Deliver group talks and presentations on normal healthy eating.
- Work alongside other professional to support patients so that they can manage to eat and drink in restaurants and cafes as part of the social eating care pathway.
- Support and motivate patients to increase their confidence in eating and drinking and take control of their life back from the eating disorder.
- Training and supervision of staff in respect of management of eating disorders.
- To participate in research initiatives as appropriate.
- To participate in regular dietetic and eating disorder audits and become involved in Clinical Governance.
- To carry out continuous professional development (CPD) with support from line manager and other professionals.
Other Duties
- To be computer literate and produce own reports using Microsoft packages.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- To be involved in actively promoting the service.
- To develop working partnerships with existing and potential referrers.
- To demonstrate professional and clinical leadership in proactively engaging with service delivery challenges and supporting the service manager in addressing these.
- To manage the workloads of assistant dietitians
- To advice service and professional management on areas of service where issues of diet or nutrition need should be addressed.
- To be responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of work undertaken ensuring the service provided is of a high standard.
ELLERN MEDE RIDGEWAY
Eating Disorders are extraordinarily complex illnesses that present with abnormalities in physical and psychological functioning. The physical complications have the potential to cause permanent damage and in some cases are life threatening. The causes are complex and multi-factorial, including genetic, neurodevelopmental and environmental influences. They require a comprehensive treatment programme including medical, psychiatric, psychological, social and dietetic interventions.
Ellern Mede offers two treatment programmes, a Recovery Unit and a High Dependency Unit (HDU). We aim to stabilise patients’ physical and psychological states as rapidly as possible for transfer to step down service. The HDU admits patients whose illness requires more intense levels of clinical involvement and nursing. The service is able to admit patients requiring treatment under mental health legislation. The aims of the services are to improve the patients’ health and dependency needs sufficiently for transfer to a regular eating disorder unit or to the community.
Ellern Mede Services for Eating Disorders is proud to remain one of the most recognised services for offering the best support for helping young people and young adult who struggle with Anorexia Nervosa and other disordered eating behaviours. We are also delighted to announce that following a recent CQC inspection, our service was awarded an overall rating of GOOD. This means a Good for all 5 domains: Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led, Responsive service.
Ellern Mede provides specialist support across two hospitals based in North London and there are two more services in the developmental phases. We are a fresh, innovative and forward thinking organisation with an expanding portfolio of services. This means we can offer our staff genuine opportunities to develop their careers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Ellern Mede are looking for a experienced Dietitian to join our branch in Mill Hill, Ridgeway. We offer Full-time and Part-time hours, Typical hours would be 09:00 - 17:30 Monday to Friday, Part - time hours we can also accomdate for.
Salary range per annum: £38,000 - £48,000.
MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:
- To support the delivery and development of dietetics within the team
- To work closely with the Ellern Mede multi-disciplinary team
- To provide specialist dietetic advice and support to children, young people & their families receiving treatment at Ellern Mede.
- To offer intensive dietetic support to young people, young adults & their families within the hospital setting, while on home leave and also preparing for discharge.
- To have a highly flexible approach to work with a range eating disorder presentations.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- To participate in initial assessments and lead on anthropometry, diet history and activity levels etc
- To provide a family based treatment approach, supporting parents and careers along with the young people.
- To formulate and implement dietetic treatment plans based on evidence and best practice approach.
- Provide specialist dietetic support and psycho-education to young people presenting with a range of eating disorders, some of which may be treatment resistant.
- Carry out detailed nutritional assessment of food diaries in hospital and from home with the ability to highlight and address patterns of concerns and areas for improvement to help empower patients.
- Prepare individually tailored specialist feeding plans for oral supplements and nasogastric feeds plans.
- Liaise with, and support other professionals as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- To have knowledge and understanding of the principles of the Care Programme Approach (CPA) and to support and contribute to the CPA care planning process.
- Preparation of reports and assessments.
- Take responsibility for own case load, initiating, planning and reviewing care plans and, if appropriate in agreement with the line manager / patients consultant.
- Deliver group talks and presentations on normal healthy eating.
- Work alongside other professional to support patients so that they can manage to eat and drink in restaurants and cafes as part of the social eating care pathway.
- Support and motivate patients to increase their confidence in eating and drinking and take control of their life back from the eating disorder.
- Training and supervision of staff in respect of management of eating disorders.
- To participate in research initiatives as appropriate.
- To participate in regular dietetic and eating disorder audits and become involved in Clinical Governance.
- To carry out continuous professional development (CPD) with support from line manager and other professionals.
Other Duties
- To be computer literate and produce own reports using Microsoft packages.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- To be involved in actively promoting the service.
- To develop working partnerships with existing and potential referrers.
- To demonstrate professional and clinical leadership in proactively engaging with service delivery challenges and supporting the service manager in addressing these.
- To manage the workloads of assistant dietitians
- To advice service and professional management on areas of service where issues of diet or nutrition need should be addressed.
- To be responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of work undertaken ensuring the service provided is of a high standard.
ELLERN MEDE RIDGEWAY
Eating Disorders are extraordinarily complex illnesses that present with abnormalities in physical and psychological functioning. The physical complications have the potential to cause permanent damage and in some cases are life threatening. The causes are complex and multi-factorial, including genetic, neurodevelopmental and environmental influences. They require a comprehensive treatment programme including medical, psychiatric, psychological, social and dietetic interventions.
Ellern Mede offers two treatment programmes, a Recovery Unit and a High Dependency Unit (HDU). We aim to stabilise patients’ physical and psychological states as rapidly as possible for transfer to step down service. The HDU admits patients whose illness requires more intense levels of clinical involvement and nursing. The service is able to admit patients requiring treatment under mental health legislation. The aims of the services are to improve the patients’ health and dependency needs sufficiently for transfer to a regular eating disorder unit or to the community.
Ellern Mede Services for Eating Disorders is proud to remain one of the most recognised services for offering the best support for helping young people and young adult who struggle with Anorexia Nervosa and other disordered eating behaviours. We are also delighted to announce that following a recent CQC inspection, our service was awarded an overall rating of GOOD. This means a Good for all 5 domains: Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led, Responsive service.
Ellern Mede provides specialist support across two hospitals based in North London and there are two more services in the developmental phases. We are a fresh, innovative and forward thinking organisation with an expanding portfolio of services. This means we can offer our staff genuine opportunities to develop their careers.
Person Specification
Dietitian
Essential
- 3 years' fulltime postgraduate Clinical Dietetic experience working with a wide range of presentations, Experience of working in Eating disorder is not absolutely necessary, training can be provided for a candidate with potential
Desirable
Person Specification
Dietitian
Essential
- 3 years' fulltime postgraduate Clinical Dietetic experience working with a wide range of presentations, Experience of working in Eating disorder is not absolutely necessary, training can be provided for a candidate with potential
Desirable
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
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).
