Band 7 Specialist Critical Care Dietitian

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust’s Royal London Hospital is recruiting a Band 7 Specialist Critical Care Dietitian on a 1-year fixed-term basis to join the Adult Dietetics Department. The role covers a specialist tertiary critical care unit, delivering complex nutrition support to trauma, neurological, medical and surgical patients.

You will work autonomously, deputise for the Lead Dietitian when needed, supervise junior staff, contribute to service development, and lead multidisciplinary collaboration to

Qualifications

• Experience managing a very busy caseload in critical care
• Leadership and successful line management experience
• Ability to deputise for the Lead Critical Care Dietitian when required
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary teamwork

Responsibilities

• Provide expert dietetic care for complex critical care patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Perform specialist assessments and provide treatment and advice to in-patients
• Collaborate closely with all MDT members to coordinate care
• Lead service development in acute dietetics and critical care
• Supervise dietetic staff and contribute to training for the MDT
• Support and develop more junior dietitians to specialise in critical care

Job description

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.

• 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

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

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