Senior Dietitian

Senior Dietitian – Permanent, Full-time

Role Summary

The Dietitian will function as an efficient and effective member of the clinical team with the aim of ensuring optimum delivery of a clinical nutrition and dietetic service to patients and ensuring appropriate follow up as necessary.

Responsibilities:

· Ensure that professional standards are maintained in accordance with the requirements as set out by CORU.

· Provide all aspects of specialist nutritional or dietetic advice, treatment and support to service users taking into account their mental, psychological, emotional and physical needs.

· To examine, negotiate and develop the dietetic service that is provided to the multidisciplinary teams within St John of God University Hospital

· Prioritise and manage a patient caseload according to the needs of the service, providing high quality evidence-based nutrition and dietetic service to both adults and adolescents.

· To provide therapeutic dietary guidelines for service users and their families who are dealing with an eating disorder, in both adults and adolescents.

· To work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team which includes psychiatrists, psychologists, specialist eating disorder nursing staff, family and CBT therapists, art therapy, occupational therapy and teachers.

Essential Qualifications:

· BSc Human Nutrition and Dietetics or a related science degree.

· Masters in Dietetics.

· CORU Registration and maintenance of this registration.

· Member of Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute.

· Minimum of three years post graduate clinical dietetics experience