Job description

**The service is delivered remotely with most team members working from home. Office bases are in Oxford & Swindon**

Hospital at Home is an exciting new service developed under the Thames Valley CAMHS Provider Collaborative, which covers Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire and BaNES. Working in partnership with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and The Huntercombe Group.

The Hospital at Home team supports young people with eating disorders who meet the threshold for inpatient care. In some cases, admission will be prevented and in others, young people will be stepped down to this model following a short inpatient admission. Hospital at home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.

As the Dietitian working within a multidisciplinary team you will support the wider team to deliver safe, high quality care and promote recovery for young people and families. The overall duties of this role are:

• To provide a quality dietetic service to the young people and their families within the Hospital at Home service.
• To provide consultation, supervision, and support the work of colleagues providing care and treatment, according to expertise.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise skills for audit, policy, service development and research.

Hospital at Home is an innovative team who place young people and their families at the heart of service provision. The team work closely together to ensure high standards of care are consistently delivered to all of the young people we care for. Communication is key and there are set times each day for the team to meet for handovers and every team member is encouraged to attend the weekly ward round for each young person.

As part of the Hospital at Home team you will be valued and respected in your role and have the opportunity to develop your skills and experience of working with young people with eating disorders. The Hospital at Home team is friendly, proactive, ambitious and supportive of each other and recognize the link between staff wellbeing and improved patient outcomes.

The team are flexible and responsive to patients and their families and are committed to supporting young people to recover from their eating disorder.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Staff accommodation
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

In this role, you will help children and young people overcome resistance to dietary change. You will do this through use of advanced communication/ behaviour change skills and motivational techniques, motivating and educating service users with the appropriate information and skills needed to meet their nutritional requirements and empower them to work towards their recovery and improve their physical health.

Please note:

• New starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
• Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.