Acute / Community Stroke Dietitian

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Stroke Rehabilitation dietetics working across acute and community teams, is this the role for you? A unique opportunity has arisen to support the patient journey from acute inpatient admission to community intervention and discharge.

The successful candidate would be part of an enthusiastic and dynamic integrated dietetic team and enjoy strong MDT working with the wider community team including the stroke MDT, community nurses, specialist nurses and medicine management team.

You would be based at Leighton Hospital working across acute wards and Mid Cheshire community footprint providing clinical intervention, education and training on the acute stroke ward and following up the patient to their own homes, nursing homes or via virtual contacts. This post offers the opportunity for a dietitian to further develop their clinical skills in enteral feeding and nutritional support whilst maintaining core therapeutic dietetic knowledge.

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous practitioner to deliver specialist dietetic services to the acute stroke unit at Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, as part of the acute adult dietetic team and home visits to review patients as part of the community stroke rehabilitation team across South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs.

To formulate, deliver and monitor nutritional care plans for referred patients. This would include highly complex clinical conditions and diet therapy, across the acute stroke unit and community stroke rehabilitation settings.

To be recognised as an expert source of nutritional knowledge in the field of stroke care, contributing to development of clinical guidelines, resources and education packages.

The department encourages innovation and supports continuous professional development. We have embraced paperless working in the community and are moving forward with a digital clinical system project for acute services. We are supported with enhanced IT facilities.

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

Job responsibilities

To practice safely within the professional code of conduct and level of competency for all aspects of work, including the management of patients in your care.

To deliver the dietetic care to the acute stroke unit and community stroke rehabilitation service including complex clinical areas which would require more depth of clinical knowledge such as complex enteral and parenteral nutrition. This involves managing and prioritising a defined patient caseload on wards and in the community settings.

To ensure safe and timely discharge of patients particularly those requiring home enteral feeding to include liaison with relevant community dietitians. To be responsible for arranging feed, equipment and training and initial community care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registered as Dietitian
• PENG course
• Competencies in enteral Nutrition

Experience

• One year NHS clinical practice
• Clinical experience in community dietetics
• Clinical experience in HEF

Skills

• Enteral feeding regime
• Clinical skills in management of enteral feeding tubes
• Clinical skills in daily monitoring

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.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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DMCS Corridor Dietetic service, Leighton Hospital

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