Clinical Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian

Job summary

Are you an experienced HCPC-registered dietitian who is passionate about developing clinical practice, supporting the growth of others and driving service improvement?

We're looking for a Clinical Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian to join our welcoming and forward-thinking Community Nutrition and Dietetics team.

This role has been developed following the success of a similar model within our Allied Health Professional (AHP) services offering a unique opportunity to shape the role and make it your own, while influencing the future of specialist nutritional care, across our community services.

You'll provide a high level of dietetic expertise for adults with complex nutritional needs, including those requiring specialist nutrition support in primary care, patients living with frailty or complex tissue damage and home enterally fed patients (HEF). Working across outpatient clinics, patients' own homes and care settings, you'll work alongside an experienced Band 7 Clinical Lead to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.

Beyond your clinical expertise, you'll play an important role in developing the service and supporting the clinical development of colleagues through supervision, mentoring and education. You'll also help strengthen partnerships with multidisciplinary teams and external services, ensuring joined-up care and contributing to the continued growth and innovation of the service.

Main duties of the job

If you're looking for a role where you can combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, service development and the opportunity to make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Clinical Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian, you will:

• Provide specialist nutritional care for adults requiring nutrition support across community settings, both in primary care caseloads, such as frailty and sarcopenia, tissue damage, as well as complex home enterally fed patients.
• Work across outpatient clinics, patients' own homes, and care and nursing homes, to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Support the clinical development of colleagues, students and apprentices, sharing specialist knowledge, through supervision, mentoring, clinical professional development (CPD) and training
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Community Dietetics service, helping to shape and improve how care is delivered.
• Build and strengthen partnerships with multidisciplinary teams and external services to support integrated care.
• Lead and contribute to education, quality improvement, clinical governance and service innovation.

About us

Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Advanced clinical knowledge in all aspects of adult nutrition

Experience

Essential

• Experience of supporting and supervising a range of staff including students
• Experience of providing advanced nutritional support to orally and enterally fed patients

Desirable

• Previous teaching experience
• Experience of working with patients with mental health or learning disability needs

personal qualities

Essential

• Able to show initiative show a flexible approach to patient care

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).

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.