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