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Job overview

Are you looking to develop your skills and knowledge to build a career? Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a Band 6 Senior Community Dietitian on a part time basis of 22.5 hours per week. Flexible work options can be considered.

The responsibilities within this role include delivering a dietetic service to housebound patients and Care Home residents at risk of malnutrition in the Frimley South area.

The post holder will work closely with the wider relevant multi-disciplinary teams and provide support to Medicine Optimisation team.

You will lead on various projects such as Appropriate prescribing of Sip Feeds and Quality Improvement projects in care homes.

Our department is a well-established team of dietitians working across various specialities. Our department values every individual within the team, and is passionate about supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, in order to create a supportive team environment. We are keen to support continued professional development through access to internal and external opportunities for learning.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

• To provide individualised nutrition assessments and review for patients requiring oral nutrition support in care homes and those who are housebound across Frimley South Place
• To be a source of expertise for FHFT and Frimley ICB on issues relating to oral nutrition support in the communityÌý
• To support team lead and Frimley ICB medicines optimisation team in ensuring appropriate use of oral nutritional supplements in the community to treat malnutritionÌý
• To educate, train and disseminate information to health and social care professionals including clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, dietetic colleagues, care home staff and students about the dietetic management of malnutrition in the communityÌý
• To undertake regular audit and service development projectsÌý

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, .

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.