Dietetic Clinical & Operational Lead, Renal

To work autonomously to lead the dietetic clinical care of patients with kidney disease who require nutrition support. To conduct in-depth nutritional assessments and use expert clinical reasoning skills to determine diagnosis and required intervention, alongside the MDT, as necessary. Calculate and establish nutritional requirements and use this to tailor advice and determine choice of nutritional management. To use highly specialised knowledge to provide dietetic advice and treatment to patients requiring artificial feeding. This will be achieved through regular monitoring, recalculation and adjustment of enteral feeding regimens and oral dietary advice to ensure nutritional adequacy for the patient. To be able to communicate highly complex nutrition and dietetic information in an understandable form to patients, staff and carers, requiring negotiation, persuasion, motivation and counselling skills including situations where there are barriers to understanding. To be able to lead on discussions with patients, family members and healthcare professionals about highly emotive and ethical issues regarding nutrition support including appropriateness of artificial nutrition support in palliative care and withdrawal of nutrition at end of life. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.