Advanced Diabetes Dietitian (Transition)

Job overview

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to work as an advanced diabetes dietitian providing high quality care to young adults with diabetes. You would be working alongside a highly specialist, patient-centred diabetes service and would be part of a wider Nutrition and Dietetics department who are a friendly, supportive and forward-thinking team.

Main duties of the job

• As an HCPC registered Dietitian, provide expert dietetic service to the MDT and a caseload of primarily transition-aged diabetes patients.
• Engage with, advise and train other healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients with diabetes.
• Work as a senior member of the Dietetic Department, in the promotion of a high-quality patient-focused service and contributing to service development and cover.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Autonomously provide expert, holistic, patient-centred dietetic care to individuals with diabetes, particularly the transition age diabetes population, underpinned by clinical, professional and Department guidelines and integrating with other services.
• Provide following specialist diabetes skills:
• Practical knowledge and skills required for insulin pump therapy for people with Type 1 diabetes
• Education to people with diabetes to enable them to adjust their insulin dosages and carbohydrate in order to achieve their targets for blood glucose control.
• Education regarding technology and data interpretation for example continuous blood glucose monitoring.
• Identification of appropriate treatment aims for people with type 2 diabetes using blood glucose-lowering agents and explain their mechanisms of action. Working with the multidisciplinary team to make suggestions to the suitable glucose-lowering agents.
• Provide the transition service and if required, contribute to the cover of:
• Secondary care clinics and outreach
• BERTIE and Living With Diabetes (for newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes) group education.
• Antenatal clinics
• Inpatient care at Dorset County Hospital.
• Indirect patient care via support to secondary care staff e.g. MDT meetings, Advice & Guidance enquiries, support to other DCH dietitians.
• Be an integral part of the wider diabetes and dietetic teams within DCHFT and where competent to do so, support other services offered by the teams as and when the need arises.
• Aid service resilience and skill maintenance by exchanging cover with the other diabetes dietitians as needed.
• Actively manage the risks and benefits of own interventions within the MDT context.
• Monitor and evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the specialist diabetes dietetics service to ensure quality and justify change.
• Maintain and progress own knowledge and skills to ensure high quality and holistic dietetic care to patients with diabetes, who may have a number of comorbidities.
• Ensure patient involvement in the development of the service.
• Participate in or lead MDT meetings and case conferences as required.

Our DCHFT Job Description and Person Specification (attached) tells you all about this role, what to expect and what is needed to succeed. When completing your application please make sure to tell us how your experience and skills fit the person specification.

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For all our roles, we are looking for staff who hold our Trust Values of Integrity, Respect Teamwork and Excellence, and who are passionate about providing the best patient care. To read more about our Trust and our Values search Dorset County Hospital online.