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Specialist Critical Care Dietitian

On-site in London·Full-time·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

Barts Health NHS Trust

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Salary
£58,133 - £65,261 a year

About £3,690 - £4,030 a month after tax.

Work mode
On-site, London
Contract
Fixed-term, full-time hours
Closing date
Apply by Sunday 15 November
Commute
Cycle to work scheme

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification.
  • Qualification in area of specialisation or evidence of significant experience in speciality area.
  • HCPC registered.
  • Extensive experience in the area of complex nutrition support (to include significant experience within the area of Critical Care).
  • Experience in the provision of Parenteral Nutrition
  • Experience in taking part in project work that supports improvement in service or supports a change in practice
  • Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
  • Experience in developing a service and establishing/maintaining a dietetic presence within an MDT.
  • Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to postgraduate standard in area of speciality.
  • Experience of supervision and line management of staff including completing appraisals, 1:1 meetings and objective setting and able to work within Trust policy and support line reports to do the same.
  • Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups, and deliver complex nutritional information.
  • Ability to use behavioural change/ motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate change.
  • Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care.
  • Able to demonstrate and effectively utilise leadership skills.
  • Able to undertake accurate anthropometric measurements eg. weights, heights, skinfold thickness to support the assessment of patients nutritional status.
  • Able to interpret a variety of complex clinical information to make dietetic diagnosis in area of speciality.
  • Ability to implement dietetic care plan and provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients in area of speciality.
  • Regularly undertakes R&D activity e.g. Critical Appraisal, Audit and is confident in the audit process.
  • Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality.
  • Able to work with young adults and the understanding of their needs and priorities.

Nice to have

  • Post Graduate training in critical care / advanced nutritional support.
  • Supplementary prescribing qualification
  • Experience in working with other specialist dietitians from other trusts to undertake service review/improvement.
  • Experience in utilising indirect calorimetry to calculate nutritional requirements.
  • Evidence of planning multiple student placements across the year for a dietetic department with relevant stakeholder involvement.

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 1 year fixed term Band 7 Specialist Critical Care Dietitian to join our friendly and enthusiastic Adult Dietetics Department at the Royal London Hospital.

This position presents an excellent prospect for a highly organised and ambitious Dietitian to work in a specialist tertiary critical care unit, covering a variety of specialisms including patients with traumatic and neurological injuries along with general medical and surgical patients. As a critical care specialist you will be able to work autonomously to provide complex nutrition support to this varied cohort of patients while having the opportunity to support and develop more junior dietitians to specialise in this area too. 

The successful candidate should be very motivated and hard-working with previous experience of managing a very busy caseload along with experience of leadership and successful line management. You will also have the opportunity to deputise for the Lead Critical Care Dietitian as needed.

There is scope to expand and develop the dietetic team and the successful candidate is expected to engage and lead in service development. Excellent communication skills and multidisciplinary working is required. The critical care unit at the Royal London Hospital is at the forefront of research and its multidisplinary team is paving the way to consider different strategies for ensuring our patients receive optimal nutritional support.

What you'll do

  • To provide expert dietetic knowledge and experience to provide an effective dietetic service to complex critical care patients requiring Nutritional Support. This includes enteral and parenteral support.
  • To provide specialist assessment, treatment and/or advice to in-patients
  • To work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
  • To actively contribute to the development of the acute dietetic service and the dietetic service on critical care.
  • To support and supervise dietetic staff
  • To support and provide training as required to the MDT

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received.

About Barts Health NHS Trust

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About the company & team

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. 

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Additional information

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful. 

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. 

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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