Job Description

Job Purpose - Monday - Friday 9-5pm



To provide dietetic assessment and treatment to clients with diabetes within the Inner London Boroughs in a variety of settings, including clinics, groups and client homes.



To be responsible for organising your own clinical workload and administrative tasks, and to be flexible to the needs of the service as indicated by the clinical lead/line manager.



To initiate and participate in clinical governance activities across the CLCH diabetes service, and to collect and record output to indicate service improvement.



To act as a source of expertise to key partners and other health professionals.

To ensure primary health care teams and non-NHS organisations have access to up to date nutritional information through the development of education and training materials and sessions



To use clinical judgement to refer clients to other services and professionals and when appropriate.



To provide timely and informative client reports and discharge summaries for GPs, consultants, other Allied Health Professionals, nursing and other staff.



To be responsible for effective time management, meeting deadlines and responding to fluctuating workloads and organising, planning and prioritising clinical and non-clinical workload.



To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and to ensure that own work is within professional standards and clinical guidelines.



To be responsible for complying with legal and professional confidentiality guidelines at all times.



To demonstrate compassion, empathy and sensitivity to clients who may have emotional and physical conditions and social concerns requiring moderate emotional effort on a regular basis.



To perform tasks that require moderate to high mental effort on a daily basis, for example concentration to write letters, to use clinical analysis and some reasoning skills to assess and develop appropriate treatment programmes, to educate clients and other healthcare professionals and to develop training material and presentations.



We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.



Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:



stay well



manage their own health with the right support



avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.



We support our patients at every stage of their lives , providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision:

deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission :

working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence



To be responsible for providing a dietetic service including appropriate dietary counselling and lifestyle advice to adults in various community settings such as GP practices, health centers and sometimes clients' homes. This will include responsibility for a clinical caseload which will include 1:1 contact, group education and multidisciplinary working.



To support the service and provide cover where required across the CLCH Diabetes service team.



To work autonomously to provide expert advice to clients, carers and clinicians. This will involve nutritional diagnosis and assessment (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and diet history) using evidence-based guidelines and the development of treatment plans (calculation of nutritional requirements and client-centred goals) using evidence based outcomes.



To use professional judgement and clinical expertise to independently interpret and analyse complex situations and information to formulate treatment plans according to evidence based practice and modify according to changes in clinical condition.



To be clinically competent to give specialist advice, treatment and dietary counselling to support behavioural change, in adults with complex and diverse healthcare needs across health and social care.