Community Diabetes DieticianNHS

Job summary

Delivery of a comprehensive, skilled and evidence-basedDiabetes service to meet the needs of the population. Maintaina clinical caseload within your specialist field. Continuingresponsibility for assessment of health needs and developmentand evaluation of standards of care.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

To establish and provide a diabetes nutrition support service to patients with diabetes independently and in partnership with diabetes specialist nurses. You will manage a diabetes caseload with the community diabetes specialist service with varying degrees of nutritional complexity with supervision from diabetes specialist dietician and exercising a large degree of autonomy. You will be responsible for using current evidence and knowledge to propose and evaluate alternative approaches to dietetic practice in community diabetes aiming to improve outcomes within available resources. This will support Government policy by developing new ways of working. You will be an integral member ofthe community diabetes service and assist with the delivery of diabetes structured educationprogramme XPERT. Most of the job role will be working with adults who have Type 2 diabetes, butalso some involvement with adults with Type 1 diabetes. To provide education and training to thewider multidisciplinary team in matters concerning the nutritional management of diabetes. To participate in audit/evaluation for adult community diabetes and other projects as required by theXPERT Programme, Community Health Trust and Community Diabetes Clinical Lead and Band 7Dietician.

Job description

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.