# Dietitian

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: Hounslow
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £45,953 to £54,254 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a talented and dynamic Dietitian to join the Hounslow Falls Prevention and Bone Health Service.

The service aims to enable people to work towards self-management and improve their understanding of the health, nutritional and lifestyle factors that can contribute to falls, frailty and poor bone health.

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team, including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Nursing, supporting patients and their family/carers through a comprehensive falls and bone health assessment pathway.

Your expertise will add significant value for people living with osteoporosis, osteopenia, frailty and other long-term conditions associated with poor bone health and an increased risk of fragility fractures.

**Main duties of the job**

- Nutritional assessment of patients at risk of falls, frailty, bone health conditions and fragility fractures.

- Screening and management of malnutrition, unintended weight loss and poor dietary intake.

- Assessment of calcium, vitamin D and protein intake to support bone and muscle health.

- Development of individualised nutrition plans to reduce falls risk and improve strength and function.

- Provision of dietary advice on bone health, healthy eating, hydration and fracture prevention.

- Prescription and monitoring of oral nutritional supplements where clinically indicated.

- Identification and management of nutrition-related contributors to falls, including frailty, sarcopenia and dehydration.

- Patient and carer education to support long-term nutritional management.

- Monitoring outcomes and reviewing progress to optimise nutritional status, bone health and falls prevention where clinically indicated.

**Benefits**

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 6 salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year pro rata inclusive of 15% HCAS

**Requirements**

- Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics and registered with HCPC

- Evidence of recent clinical practice as a Dietitian and maintenance of professional registration

- Membership of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) or eligibility for membership

- Minimum one year experience working as a Band 5 Dietitian in an acute and/or community setting

- Experience managing an autonomous caseload and demonstrating independent clinical decision-making

- Excellent communication skills with patients, carers and professionals from diverse backgrounds

## Skills

### Required
- Dietetics
- Nutritional assessment
- Malnutrition management
- Bone health
- Falls prevention
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Postgraduate specialist training in falls prevention, frailty, osteoporosis or bone health
- Behaviour change techniques and motivational interviewing

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