Senior Dietician

Job summary

MATERNITY COVER-FTC-12 MONTHS

This fixed-term maternity cover offers an exciting opportunity for a registered Dietitian to work within the Medicines Optimisation Delivery Team in South West London (SWL). The role will focus on the delivery of strategies and actionable plans in relation to nutrition to deliver the best possible health outcomes for the SWL local population, with a focus on prevention, personalised care and health inequalities.

Main duties of the job

The role will support and at times lead primary care and neighbourhood NHS models of care at Place in enhancing outcomes from the prescribing of nutritional products, including ensuring value, safety, and overall quality improvement. The post holder will work collaboratively across boroughs within the Medicines Optimisation Delivery Team to facilitate the efficient implementation of 'do once and share' functions.

If you have any questions or would like an informal discussion about the role please contact Gassan Yacob ([email protected])

About us

On 1 July 2022, NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established. The ICB, as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.

Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:

an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services

an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.

ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):

to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;

tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;

enhance productivity and value for money and;

help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description for full details.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Postholder will:

Propose, develop and implement new initiatives aimed at improving appropriate prescribing of nutrition products across SWL ICB to actively contribute to the overall management of the prescribing budgets

Ensure that the recommendations and strategies for change are thoroughly evaluated and seek opportunities for publication.

Develop and monitor the ICB work programme and projects reflecting the objectives of the SWL ICB Medicines Optimisation team, ensuring the priorities of the ICB are addressed

Manage the development and maintenance of systems to capture appropriate information about the prescribing of nutritional products and outcomes.

In collaboration with the Medicines value and productivity team, develop tools that help to better track or monitor performance in line with the SWL Medicines Optimisation workplan where required e.g. clinical audit, significant event audit, monitoring and addressing variation.

Ensure that all work streams including financial, and performance are regularly communicated via the SWL Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOG) and Finance Medicines Optimisation Group (FMOG) as appropriate

Advise, consult and lead on the managed entry of new nutritional products locally into the NHS, review new indications for existing drugs and monitor the effectiveness of those strategies,

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Dietetics
• Registered with the HCPC
• Extensive knowledge of specialist area, acquired through post graduate qualification or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge. including membership of a specialist group
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Member of British Dietetic Association
• Recognised management or leadership qualification
• Project management qualification or relevant experience (e.g., PRINCE2)

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Experience of leading programmes
• Experience in teaching and development of staff and non-health professionals
• Financial management experience
• Experience in service improvement and innovation
• Experience of working in both acute and community setting
• In-depth knowledge of current evidence-based treatment approaches in dietetics and experience of providing advice in line with approach
• In-depth knowledge and experience in the analysis of need and production of business cases and reports
• Knowledge and experience of a wide range of operational and governance activities, including risk management
• Evidence of experience in transformation programmes
• Experience of working with commissioners
• Experience of planning, organising, carrying out and reporting on audits or research
• Experience of working with suppliers of dietetic products
• Experience of managing enteral feeding contracts, liaising with external company providers and procurement

Skills & Ability

Essential

• Ability to ensure implementation of current evidence-based treatment approaches in work programmes
• Team leadership skills and the ability to understand team dynamics to ensure efficient working
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills demonstrating the use of a variety of media
• Effective written and verbal communication skills demonstrating the use of a variety of media
• Negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to lead within the dietetic profession and multi professional working: within an organisation and across organisational boundaries
• Able to prioritise complex activities which require forward planning and project management skills
• Able to quickly understand complex clinical situations and provide advice to dietetic and other staff
• Change management skills
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent IT skills, including word processing, PowerPoint, excel spreadsheets and e-mail
• Knowledge of ePACT and GP patient record systems

Other

Essential

• Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary
• Flexibility to work from any base within South West London ICS with travel when needed
• Demonstrates commitment to NHS and organisational values and behaviours
• Demonstrate commitment and role model behaviours and actions that support equality, diversity, belonging and inclusion
• Strong compassionate and inclusive leadership