Job summary

Medicines Optimisation Dietitian - Join our Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and innovative Dietitian to join Sutton Health and Care Adult Dietetic Service as a Medicines Optimisation Dietitian. This specialist role offers the chance to work across primary care, community services and the wider health system to improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of nutritional prescribing for adults.

You will work closely with GP practices, Primary Care Networks, community healthcare professionals and care providers to support evidence-based prescribing of oral nutritional supplements (ONS) and other nutrition-related products. Through clinical review, education and service improvement initiatives, you will help ensure patients receive appropriate nutritional support while contributing to efficient use of NHS resources.

The successful candidate will work alongside an experienced Medicines Optimisation Dietitian who currently undertakes the role on a part-time basis. Together, you will share responsibility for delivering the service across Sutton.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Dietitian with strong clinical skills, an interest in medicines optimisation and a passion for influencing practice across organisational boundaries.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to the education and training of dietetic students, including the supervision of student placements.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of the Role:

• Lead initiatives to improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of oral nutritional supplement (ONS) and nutrition-related prescribing across Sutton and in line with South West London Integrated Care Board guidelines and priorities.
• Work closely with GP practices, care homes, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to optimise nutritional prescribing and support best practice.
• Review patients prescribed nutritional products and make evidence-based recommendations to ensure appropriate and clinically effective use.
• Deliver training and education to GPs, practice nurses, pharmacists, care home staff and other healthcare professionals on malnutrition and nutritional prescribing.
• Act as an expert source of advice on nutrition support, malnutrition management and medicines optimisation for nutritional products.
• Analyse prescribing activity, undertake audits and produce reports demonstrating clinical outcomes and cost savings.
• Develop, review and implement local guidelines, policies, pathways and patient information resources relating to nutritional care.
• Support the wider Dietetic Service through service development activities, student training and supervision, peer support, and participation in team projects, meetings and quality improvement initiatives.

About us

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

At gesh we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant degree or post graduate diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
• Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registration.

Desirable

• Member of British Dietetic Association (BDA).

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a range of clinical areas including nutrition support, and recommending prescribing of oral nutrition supplements.
• Demonstrated ability to work in partnership with other professionals /agencies in a variety of settings.
• Experience in contributing to policy, procedures, guidelines and clinical standards development.
• Experience of undertaking clinical audit and evaluation.

Desirable

• Experience of working in the community setting.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential

• High level of negotiation and influencing skills.
• Highly developed presentation skills.
• Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of clients with nutritional conditions.
• Ability to work as a team member and promote collaborative multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.

Desirable

• Awareness of evidence-based literature regarding ONS Prescribing.

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Job summary

South West London ICB is looking to recruit a Head of Financial Management to be a crucial part of the Financial Management team. This is an exciting role which will lead on financial management issues for All Age Continuing Healthcare (AACHC) and Mental Health.

This role will be responsible for building on existing relationships between the contracts team and the AACHC team and will require active engagement with clinical and non-clinical teams in financial performance management, efficiency development and delivery and in ensuring that the financial planning process is sound.

The post holder will manage the Financial Management team under them; including the specific responsibility for ensuring the provision of effective business partnering to all departments of the ICB.

In addition this postholder will act as the relationship accountant to Croydon, Kingston & Richmond Place. This will be reviewed as Place based working with the ICB as a Strategic Commissioner evolves.

Main duties of the job

• To provide professional and complex financial and commercial information to managers within the ICB.
• To provide financial management staff with support and advice on financial and non-financial aspects of the budgets, ensure they are aligned to meet agreed plans and required service standards.
• Coordinate identification and analysis of the consequences and risks of short- and long-term local service changes and national financial and other policy developments.
• Along with the Deputy Director of Finance for Financial Management be accountable for all aspects of the ICB management accounting service, including management of the monthly reporting cycle and delivery of effective financial reports to agreed deadlines. This includes ensuring that all income and expenditure ledger entries balance accurately and timeliness of provision of summary and detail reports as required across the ICB.
• Manages the production of multi-layer forecasts of ICB financial performance at all points in time, ensuring incorporation of the effects of all pressures and actions being taken across the ICB.
• he post holder will be required to present highly complex and highly sensitive financial information to large audiences of varying experience, disciplines and seniority. This will require highly developed presentation and influencing skills.

About us

The core purpose of SWL ICB is to improve the health of our population and ensure access to consistently high-quality services. Overseeing a budget of £4.3bn we hold accountability for ensuring the best use of the health budget for SW London's population in order to improve health and healthcare, both now and in the future.

The core responsibilities of an ICB are to:

Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare.

Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.

Enhance productivity and value for money; and

Support broader social and economic development in their area

The ICB provides system leadership for population health, setting the evidence base and long-term population health strategy. We work as healthcare payers to deliver this, maximising the value that can be created from the available resources. This involves investing in, purchasing and evaluating the range of services and pathways required to ensure access to high quality care, in order to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities within South West London.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role will be responsible for the overall management of the Financial Management team responsible for their functional area, including motivating staff to meet deadlines and targets, recruitment, training, appraisal, implementation of HR policies and dealing with disciplinary/performance issues.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Experience needed - general or specific

Essential

• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
• Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.

Skill and Ability

Essential

• Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously and on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.

What our service users expect of this post holder

Essential

• Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary
• Demonstrates commitment to NHS and organisational values and behaviours
• Demonstrate commitment and role model behaviours and actions that support equality, diversity, belonging and inclusion
• Strong compassionate and inclusive leadership

What our service users expect of this post holder

Essential

• Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).