This placement will be seven weeks (20 days part time) in duration and take place in a predominantly non-clinical setting. Students will have the opportunity to practice across a range of alternate environments where dietitians work in areas other than direct clinical care. Settings may include: Freelance dietitians, workplaces, learning disability settings, Tier 1 and 2 weight management services, health and wellbeing community projects e.g. multi-cultural projects, homeless centres. Digital resources and online learning will continue throughout the placement to support student development.

In addition to the organisations that the students join for their placement, they will also have the opportunity to attend workshops and ongoing teaching sessions at UCL.

By the end of Placement 2B, for individual and group interventions, students should be able to:

LO1: Applied Knowledge

Demonstrate an applied knowledge of dietetics required to support evidence-based practice on placement in selected service users and workstreams.

LO2: Assessment

Demonstrate competence in the ability to identify, collect and interpret relevant information and evidence from the range of sources available in a systematic way to assess nutritional needs in selected service users (individuals, groups and populations) and in accordance with the care process (BDA, 2016).

LO3: Dietetic Diagnosis

Formulate and justify appropriate nutrition and dietetic diagnoses of service user (e.g. individuals, groups and populations) or define a community public health need.

LO4: Care Planning

Demonstrate competence in, develop and implement an appropriate dietetic care and action plans for achieving dietetic goals.

LO5: Review and Monitoring

Demonstrate the ability to put in place effective mechanisms to review, monitor and evaluate dietetic interventions in selected service users (individuals, groups and populations) and in accordance with the care process (BDA, 2016).

LO6: Prioritisation

Demonstrate competence in the prioritisation and management of workload to independently progress selected tasks and workstreams to agreed deadlines within available time and resources.

LO7: Reflection and Review

Understand and demonstrate effective reflective practice and how this contributes to professional development, service delivery and enhances outcomes of service users.

 

LO8: Communication

Demonstrate effective communication skills and approaches with service users (e.g. individuals, groups and populations), supervisors, other professionals and support staff. 

LO9: Self-directed/autonomous Practice

Demonstrate transition from directed to more self-directed practice where competence is demonstrated in selected service users (e.g. individuals, groups and populations) and workstreams.

LO10: Professionalism

Demonstrate professional behaviour enacted in practice in accordance with HCPC standards (Guidance on Conduct and Ethics for students (2016), Standards of Proficiency, 2013) and local organisational policies