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About the role
A hospital dietitian role focused on clinical nutrition care for patients, working alongside caregivers and a multi-disciplinary team. It suits a qualified dietitian who can manage a caseload, keep up clinical standards, and also contribute to education, research and department projects.
What you'll do
Keep care standards consistent across patients
Assess patients' nutrition by reviewing relevant data and applying clinical reasoning
Work out the right nutrition diagnosis
Put together and carry out medical nutrition therapy and care plans
Agree treatment goals together with the patient
Track patient progress and adjust the care plan as needed
Teach patients and train their caregivers
Coordinate with caregivers and the multi-disciplinary team
Document the nutrition care process following department and hospital guidelines
Follow organisational and departmental guidelines and clinical standards
Meet the clinical competency requirements on the competency checklist
Manage and maintain your workload
Hit target caseload and clinical key achievement areas
Plan and finish work within the given time frame
Prioritise workload sensibly
Help with quality improvement activities and projects on clinical care
Meet patient service quality standards set by the hospital and department
Take part in quality improvement projects at hospital or department level
Keep up consistent CEP standards
Communicate professionally with patients, caregivers, doctors, nurses and other allied health staff
Uphold professional ethics
Keep patients safe from harm
Follow the hospital's infection control practices
Help co-supervise and co-train staff
Help supervise first and second year students
Supervise polytechnic student projects
Act as co-placement educator for university student placements
Run in-service training and education for colleagues within the department
Prepare training materials and run in-house and public forums when needed
Present at continuing education in-services and forums
Educate patients and the public
Join voluntary and community organisations in nutrition activities
Contribute to media responses
Help run professional workshops and seminars
Help organise, coordinate and provide continuing education for colleagues
Help organise health or community education events
Help develop resource materials
Help review and update curriculum exam papers for students
Keep your practice knowledge current
Apply and show evidence based practice
Critically review research literature and share findings
Take part in and support research data collection, design and analysis
Help develop abstracts, posters or oral presentations
Help manage services and resources to meet department and hospital targets
Coordinate and help manage food and beverage services
Roll out new service programmes under a senior dietitian's supervision to meet patient needs
Help lead a department workgroup to deliver a
Requirements
Qualified dietitian able to conduct nutritional assessments and set nutrition diagnoses
Able to develop and implement medical nutrition therapy and care plans
Able to document the nutrition care process per department and hospital guidelines
Able to meet the department's clinical competency checklist
Able to manage workload and hit target caseload and clinical key achievement areas
Able to supervise and mentor students and junior staff
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