Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Interview date: Friday18th July 2025. 
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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• The advanced practitioner will work collaboratively alongside specialist dietitian(s), dietetic support workers and all supporting teams, to deliver support to individuals and groups, in hospital or the community.
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  The post-holder will work independently to deliver and review dietary advice and weight monitoring to a patient caseload, allocated by the supervising dietitian, in accordance with agreed guidance/ care pathways.
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  The post holder will undertake a variety of delegated clinical tasks to support the delivery of quality nutritional care.
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  The post holder will assist in the organisation, development and management of resources such as patient information leaflets and nutrition products.
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  The post holder will organise and facilitate training around nutrition screening and dietary strategies and collate data in relation to dietary intervention outcomes.
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  The post holder will organise and facilitate health promotion activities/national campaigns related to nutrition. 
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  The post holder will assist in departmental audits and evaluations, collecting and collating data. Presenting results in reports and at meetings as required.
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  The post holder will assist with Mentoring/Coaching of band 3 dietetic support workers and student dietitians. Also actively participate in clinical supervision.
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  Manage without direct supervision, own caseload of patients as triaged by the supervising dietitians and within agreed protocols. This may involve running clinics and seeing patients in a variety of other settings, acute and community. In accordance with agreed guidance/care pathways, for example this may involve:
• - Collect relevant information from a number of sources e.g. patient records, observation charts and blood results.
  - Checking the patient’s weight, length/height, head circumference (with equipment needing to be carried in the community), undertaking simple calculations e.g. percentage weight change, B.M.I.
  - Taking diet histories.
  - Understand and utilise methods of optimising nutritional status in selected disease states, seeking guidance from specialist dietitians as necessary.
  - Implement and review a suitable nutritional care plan.
  - Seek to identify barriers to improved intake and sign post to appropriate support to tackle underlying barriers.
  - Update the dietitian and supporting multidisciplinary team regarding patient progress.
  - Facilitate patient discharges.
  - Update patient electronic records and write letters to supporting
  professionals in a concise, accurate and timely manner.
• The post holder will enter information onto enteral feed databases such as nutrition company databases and patient registration systems.
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  To be aware of own professional limitations and report any concerns to the supervising dietitian.
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  The post holder will be an active member of the team, contributing to service development proposals and work

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.