Dietitian

Job Title: Band 7 Dietitian

Ward: Austen House

Location: Austen House, Loperwood, Calmore, Southampton

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: TBC

Working Pattern: 22.5 hours mon-fri - 3 days across Mon - Friday 9am to 5pm

Specific Skills

An experienced dietitian who can support young people in an Low secure setting. The support will be required for young people who have food and fluid refusal and may require Naso gastric tube feeding as well as support for young people on medication which may increase appetite and therefore weight gain.

The applicant will also be required to provide advice and guidance to the MDT and medics.

**Working with teenagers, inpatient service,

**Patient caseload info - Our young people, tend to be - disordered eating and some of them as a form of self-harm - This is not directly related to the Dietician but awareness of types of caseloads.

**HCPC - Qualified,

**Open to non NHS experience