Job Description:To maintain a detailed knowledge of national and local standards (e.g. National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines) and the current evidence base in relation to nutrition and your area(s) of practice.You may be expected to provide cover cross site as clinical demand.The post holder will largely carry a gastro and general medical caseload, alongside some complex enteral feed patients. There will also be an expectation to support with the management and cover of HDU/ITU and TPN patients with training and support available as needed.To assess, monitor, and review patients nutritional care plans as appropriate to the patient group.To work in a coordinated multidisciplinary manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved with these patient groups to promote timely interventions.To work with the multidisciplinary team to implement protocols and treatment pathways for this group of patients.To interpret received information concerning medical and social history to ensure advice is given in a person centered and culturally specific way.To provide highly complex nutrition counselling and use of reassurance and motivational skills to overcome barriers to change particularly where there is non-compliance.To provide expert nutritional advice and education to patients, carers and relatives.To support the use of a nutrition screening tool for inpatients to ensure patients are appropriately referred to the dietitian.To undertake training to be deemed competent in the use of all equipment related to nutritional assessment and enteral feeding e.g. anthropometrics and feeding pumps.