# Community Learning Disabilities Dietitian

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Band 6 Community Learning Disabilities Dietitian to join our friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team in Wandsworth on a 12-month fixed-term basis.

The successful candidate will provide specialist nutritional assessment, intervention and support for adults with learning disabilities who present with a wide range of nutritional needs.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide specialist dietetic assessment and intervention for adults with learning disabilities presenting with dysphagia, malnutrition, obesity, enteral feeding needs, and other complex nutritional issues.

- Manage and prioritise a defined caseload of adults with learning disabilities within community settings.

- Undertake comprehensive, person-centred dietetic assessments and establish realistic, evidence-based goals.

- Monitor and review clients receiving home enteral feeding, liaising with acute dietetic services, community teams, carers, and other professionals.

- Provide dietary and nutritional advice to service users, families, carers, support providers, and professionals.

Requirements:

- Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics

- Registered as Dietitian with HCPC

- Minimum of two years post graduate experience in dietetics services

- Experience working with enteral feeding

- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team

- Experience of working in the NHS

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

## Skills

### Required
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC registration
- Enteral feeding management
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration

### Nice to have
- British Dietetic Association membership
- Specialist Mental Health Group membership
- BDA Advanced Dietetics in Learning Disabilities course completion

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