Nutritionist

Job summary
An exciting opportunity is available for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and motivated Nutritionist with Mental Health experience delivering weight management and health promotion. This role will contribute to the development, provision, and coordination of the Adult Weight Management programme within the Lifestyle Service for adults aged 18 and over with serious mental illness delivered across the county of Staffordshire.

We support the whole Staffordshire area. The successful candidate may be based in any area of Staffordshire but will need to be open to travel and supporting teams across the area as required. Predominantly the South of the county.

This community-based service will be centred on supporting participants to lead healthier lives. The service offers a personalised care package for adults only with serious mental illness, with a focus on those who need support to lose and maintain a healthy weight, via face to face or digital offerings.

Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing high quality participant-centred care and working within a multi-disciplinary specialist team. Providing expert nutrition advice, underpinned by a sound knowledge of the principles of behaviour change, you will support adults across Staffordshire, to make and maintain health related behaviour changes.

The successful candidate will be:

• Minimum 2 years experience of delivering specialist care and treatment to adults over 18 years with mental illness
• Passionate about providing high quality care and support.
• Able to deliver high standard nutritional care and advice within community-based weight management services.
• Delivering one to one and group interventions, for participants who are obese, who may also have co-morbidities / complex needs.
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and have current registration with the Association of Nutritionists or BDA

About us
Everyone Health Ltd supports people to live healthier lives. We offer advice and guidance and our evidence based prevention and treatment solutions enable individuals to take action to make a positive change. Our behaviour change dynamic services are co-designed by our service users as we continually strive to make a difference.

Mostly we are a company full of passionate individuals who love to help people achieve their health goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive assessment of nutritional needs and patient lifestyle to develop care plans to address nutritional issues.
• Evaluate nutritional needs and on-going support to patients in line with NICE guidance in a group and 1-2-1 settings, face to face and/or digitally, and implementing skills and knowledge of behaviour change theories.
• Support the nutritional development, delivery, evaluation, and quality assurance of the integrated service and provide key nutritional expertise to the multidisciplinary team and other colleagues within the service, ensuring excellent service delivery.
• Facilitate and empower patients to change behaviour and adopt positive lifestyle changes by providing health education and high-quality nutritional counselling regarding healthy eating, helping patients to address barriers to change.
• Attend multi professional meetings to provide nutrition input regarding management for patients/clients including discharge planning and on-going management whilst respecting professional roles to ensure a supportive and proactive multi-disciplinary team.
• Ensure programme delivery is monitored using validated tools to collect and analyse patient performance outcome measures and evaluation, to ensure that the contractual KPIs are achieved, and an excellent service is demonstrated; critical and rigorous implementation of all validated anthropometric measures at key milestones across the services, in line with the Standard Evaluation Framework, ensuring excellent recording, monitoring, and reporting on patient outcomes.
• Keep accurate records and written reports, ensuring patient personal information is recorded in accordance with Everyone Health and Local Authority policies; Caldicott Guardian, Information Governance, Data Protection and Data Sharing compliance.
• Assist the development of continual service improvement and client/patient-centred services in accordance with participant feedback, NICE guidance, national and local recommendations, professional competences and SLM policies and procedures, ensuring the service is delivered in line with CQC and HSCIC regulations.
• Be compliant with all relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines; including the appropriate code(s) of conduct associated with this post; maintain awareness of safeguarding issues, report and act on concerns in accordance with Everyone Health and Local Authority policies and procedures.
• Ensure the safety of all patients by undertaking: risk assessments, health and safety checks, equipment checks etc., as directed by the Service Manager and Clinical Lead. Respond to any relevant clinical / colleague issues / incidences to manage and mitigate risk and maintain best practice.
• Take responsibility for own CPD and synthesise new knowledge into the development of your own practice, participate in training and continual professional development as required; recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by professional body.
• Ensure that commitment to equality and diversity is reflected at all stages of project planning, delivery, and evaluation, in line with agreed service standards.
• Support in administrative duties related to your patients, for example letters to referrers, follow up phone calls, motivational text messages as required.
• Be an ambassador for Everyone Health, promoting the Healthy Communities Lifestyle Service to members of the public and other stakeholders/ partners, where appropriate.

The post holder is expected to work within the requirements of the 6 Cs Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment.

Essential Qualifications

• Relevant degree/postgraduate degree in nutrition, or a minimum of 2 years' experience in this field
• Member of the Association for Nutrition AfN or BDA

Special Conditions

• Full UK Driving license with access to a car with business travel insurance for work.
• Working in a variety of settings including the community, youth, and community centres.
• Some evening and weekend work.
• This post involves working with vulnerable adults and as such the post holder will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records at an enhanced level (DBS).

Employer details
Everyone Health Ltd, St Albans's House Enterprise Centre, St Albans Road, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 3DR

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