Specialist Neurology Dietitian

Clinical Caseload Maintenance

Maintain a clinical caseload and collaborate with other health professionals, suppliers, patients, and carers to provide timely, appropriate, and cost-effective nutrition support for patients on oral nutritional supplements in all community settings.

Comprehensive Patient Assessment

Undertake comprehensive assessments of patients' clinical needs using specialised clinical knowledge, skills, and a broad range of nutritional assessment techniques.

Timely Documentation

Ensure all consultation notes are completed within 24 hours of patient and/or third-party contact in accordance with the code of conduct and Trust policies.

Dietary Goal Negotiation

Negotiate and agree on dietary or nutritional goals with individual patients and/or their carers using motivational interviewing, counselling, and cognitive behaviour therapy tools. Identify individual barriers to change and help patients manage them.

Annual Audit Participation

Actively participate in the department's annual audit program.

Service Provision Reporting

Provide regular reports on service provision and proactively discuss future service development initiatives with your line manager.

Professional Contribution

Contribute to dietetic staff meetings, clinical effectiveness activities, journal reviews, peer reviews, team meetings, supervision, and working groups.

Flexible Service Delivery

Ensure flexible service delivery, including providing cover for other clinical areas or colleagues within the department as needed.

Continuous Learning

Stay abreast of current literature and share learning with colleagues.

Risk and Assessment Management

Ensure appropriate risk and other assessments are completed and documented by yourself and team members in a timely manner, in accordance with Trust policies.