Specialist Neurology Dietitian

• Clinical Caseload Maintenance: Maintain a clinical caseload and collaborate with other health professionals, suppliers, patients, and carers to provide timely, appropriate, and cost-effective nutrition support for patients on oral nutritional supplements in all community settings.
• Comprehensive Patient Assessment: Undertake comprehensive assessments of patients' clinical needs using specialised clinical knowledge, skills, and a broad range of nutritional assessment techniques.
• Timely Documentation: Ensure all consultation notes are completed within 24 hours of patient and/or third-party contact in accordance with the code of conduct and Trust policies.
• Dietary Goal Negotiation: Negotiate and agree on dietary or nutritional goals with individual patients and/or their carers using motivational interviewing, counselling, and cognitive behaviour therapy tools. Identify individual barriers to change and help patients manage them.
• Annual Audit Participation: Actively participate in the department's annual audit program.
• Service Provision Reporting: Provide regular reports on service provision and proactively discuss future service development initiatives with your line manager.
• Professional Contribution: Contribute to dietetic staff meetings, clinical effectiveness activities, journal reviews, peer reviews, team meetings, supervision, and working groups.
• Flexible Service Delivery: Ensure flexible service delivery, including providing cover for other clinical areas or colleagues within the department as needed.
• Continuous Learning: Stay abreast of current literature and share learning with colleagues.
• Risk and Assessment Management: Ensure appropriate risk and other assessments are completed and documented by yourself and team members in a timely manner, in accordance with Trust policies.

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

Desirable

• Relevant MSc or post registration qualification e.g. Low Fodmap or PENG clinical Update
• Member of BDA
• Member of a special interest group of the BDA e.g. PENG Group

Essential

• Clinically competent to give specialist stroke and neurological advice, treatment and dietary support and counselling to support behaviour changes in adults and their carers with diverse health needs
• Ability to manage time effectively, meet deadlines and manage work pressures and competing demand
• Ability to work independently with regular supervision and support from senior clinicians and work as part of a team

Desirable

• Excellent Presentation skills, both written and verbal, and ability to adjust style and content as appropriate
• Ability to carry out audit and research
• Understanding of clinical governance, professional issues and ethics and their application in practice

Essential

• Expertise in managing enteral feeding, including addressing the ethical considerations associated with enteral feeding in community settings.
• Experience in the dietary management of stroke and neurological conditions in line with best practice
• Understanding of safeguarding concerns and process of escalations

Desirable

• Able to work in a co-operative and collaborative way with others
• Ability to effectively cope with working in stressful environments, including managing interactions with emotional or aggressive patients and carers.
• CBT/ Motivational interview/ Behaviour Change Training