Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for a full time Community Dietician to join the team on a fixed term 12 months bases at Lincoln County Hospital, providing dietetic support in the surrounding area principally in the Louth/Mablethorpe area. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing a specialist, cost efficient and high quality nutrition and dietetic service to support patients requiring nutritional advice and support in community settings.



To provide this service to clients and carers in community hospitals, community clinics, nursing/care homes and patients' own homes via face to face clinics, telephone, video consultation and home visits as required.

To deliver out-patient clinics covering a range of medical and nutritional conditions, including but not only, nutritional support and diabetes

To contribute to evidence-based policy, guidelines and procedures in managing this client group.

To reduce the risk of malnutrition in this client group, both by individual consultation and education to carers and staff in community settings.

To support appropriate and cost effective use of Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) in the community.

To see patients with enteral feeding tubes in community settings, under the support and guidance of the Home Enteral Nutrition Team

To work with the community diabetes teams to deliver the dietetic input into diabetes clinics and patient education groups in a range of settings.

To provide education and support to other health care professionals on diet and diabetes care.



Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.



Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.



Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service



United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.



Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.



This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.



The Group is known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).



Responsibility for patient/client care



Responsible for own caseload, including nutritional diagnosis, formulation of treatment plans, giving specialised dietetic advice for patients in the Lincolnshire community and community hospitals



Responsibility for policy/service development



Follows local and national policies



Develops local standards and policies on relevant areas e.g. nutritional support and diabetes



Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources



Ensure efficient use of resources whilst maintaining safe practice



Ensure cost effectiveness when requesting prescriptions



Responsibility for information resources



Records personally generated clinical observations in medical notes, dietetic record cards and nursing care plans



To develop information resources, contribute to development of nutritional care pathways and nutritional strategies



Contribute to planning, organisation and co-ordination of Trust wide evidence based patient information.



Responsibility for research and development



To identify and undertake appropriate clinical audit, in addition to that requested by the Team leader and/or Trust Lead Dietitian.



Participate in multidisciplinary audit



For full details please see the attached job description and person specification.