Advanced Dietetic Practitioner - Paediatric Metabolics

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to full job description and person specification.
• To provide clinical leadership & advanced practice in the management of patients under the care of NUH within a specialist area.
• An autonomous HCPC registered team member providing a high standard of assessment and treatment/management of patients, some of whom may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentations in allocated area.
• The post holder's job responsibilities are aligned with the requirements of the career framework and four pillars of practice.
• All HCPC registered professionals are professionally and legally responsible / accountable for all aspects of own and delegated work.

As an autonomous professional we expect all HCPC registered professionals to be aware of the current HCPC professional standards and be able to evidence these as part of the re-registration process

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Profession Specific Degree
• Current registration with professional body such as NMC or HCPC
• Post-registration master's level award or equivalent; and/or accreditation with relevant clinical governing body eg Centre for Advanced Practice

Desirable criteria

• Mentor/assessor and/or teaching qualification
• Service Improvement methodology training e.g QSIR
• Successful completion of a leadership course

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant demonstrable theoretical and practical experience of working as a registered practitioner within relevant specialty, allowing autonomous patient management, related to clinical scope of practice, i.e. to assess; diagnose; plan; implement and/or evaluate treatments
• Experience of managing staff performance, training and development, with evidence of recent teaching, mentorship, and supervision of healthcare staff
• Evidence of recent quality improvement; service improvement and/or change management.
• Evidence of involvement in research and audit projects, implementing evidence-based practice within specialty

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to work within, and provide leadership to, the multi-professional team, effectively communicating to establish and maintain relationships
• Ability to motivate, train and teach, supporting training pathways for multi-professional learners across NUH.
• Ability to communicate and present complex information in written and verbal formats, to individuals or groups.

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to effectively identify and manage clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines.
• Ability to critically engage in research activities so that evidenced-based strategies are developed and applied to service improvements and redesign
• Ability to assess and manage risk where there may be complex/unpredictable events, ensuring safety of staff and service users

Planning and Organisation skills

Essential criteria

• Adaptability according to the needs of the patient/s, service and organisation, safely prioritising workload to support demand in accordance with specialty/Trust pressures
• Ability to identify learning needs and opportunities for self and for others and organise own learning and development across the 4 pillars of advanced practice

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

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