Band 6 Dietitian: Respiratory, Surgery, Critical Care

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for an experienced Band 6 Dietitian to cover maternity leave. This role includes managing a clinical caseload in surgical, respiratory, medical, and critical care wards. The successful candidate will supervise junior staff and play a key role in service development. The position offers a salary of £44,485 to £52,521 per annum.

Qualifications

• Broad range of clinical experience across various clinical areas.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Effective verbal communication skills with patients and healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Manage own clinical caseload across several specialities.
• Supervise junior staff and dietetic students as required.
• Participate in service development and audit activities.

Skills

Teamwork

Clinical reasoning

Effective communication

Time management

Education

Recognised Dietetics Degree qualification

Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice

Tools

Microsoft Office

Nutritional analysis software

Job description

Band 6 Dietitian: Respiratory, Surgery, Critical Care

We have an opportunity for a band 6 dietitian to cover a 10 month period of maternity leave (this may be extended).

Are you an experienced Band 6 dietitian looking to expand your expertise in respiratory, surgery and critical care? Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people's lives? We are seeking enthusiastic and innovative Dietitians who value teamwork and are dedicated to ensuring patients receive timely assessment and compassionate care. If you are eager to enhance your clinical and service development skills in this field of Dietetics this will be a great opportunity.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to manage their own clinical caseload across the areas covered by the team: surgical, respiratory, acute medical, cardiology and critical care wards. They will also need to supervise more junior staff and dietetic students as required.

The successful candidate will thrive when working closely as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will be keen to develop their skills in service development and audit as well as their clinical knowledge. We pride ourselves in being a forward-thinking department with a strong commitment to continuing professional development.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

Job responsibilities

See the Job description and Person Specification attached for more information about this role and its main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values

Education

• Recognised Dietetics Degree qualification or equivalent
• Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
• Additional qualification or BDA accredited courses or equivalent in-house training e.g. PENG clinical update,
• Commitment to advanced clinical and professional development
• Membership of special interest group

Experience

• Broad range of clinical experience, across a variety of clinical areas to include nutrition support in both in and out-patients
• Experience of working within an MDT
• Presentations to groups/teaching other Healthcare Professionals
• Student training/ supervisory skills
• Active participation in an audit or project
• Experience and competencies in complex ITU patient management and Parenteral nutrition
• Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
• Proficient use of PC & working knowledge of Microsoft Office and nutritional analysis software
• Able to work autonomously and use initiative
• Evidence of specialist clinical skills
• Good time management and organisational skills
• Effective clinical reasoning skills & ability to reflect on own practice
• Appreciation of need for personal accountability for governance issues (to include confidentiality, Health & safety and risk management) and how these affect self and others
• Effective verbal communication skills with a range of patients and healthcare professionals
• Ability to treat others with compassion, dignity and respect, taking into account diversity considerations
• Able to manage clinical caseload and prioritise effectively
• Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary, with a willingness to be personally accountable for actions
• Ability to manage own time & meet deadlines
• Ability to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
• Ability to recognise and challenge unacceptable behaviour. To act on this appropriately using effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness and negotiation

Personal Qualities & Attributes

• Positive attitude to change
• Motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role
• A helpful, positive and flexible attitude
• Able to comply with trust manual handling guidelines

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£44,485 to £52,521 per annum inclusive of HCAS