Clinical Dietitian

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; Southall; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider seeks a dedicated Clinical Dietitian to join a dynamic team at Ealing Hospital. In this rewarding role, you will assess and diagnose nutritional issues, manage patients with specific medical conditions, and provide education to staff and students. This position is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact on patient care while working in a supportive and flexible environment. Join a team that values quality and diversity, and contribute to the health and wellbeing of the community. If you are passionate about nutrition and patient care, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Training and development opportunities

NHS pension scheme

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is essential for this role.
• Experience in nutritional assessment and dietetic management required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical dietetic service to inpatients and outpatients.
• Assess nutritional problems and manage treatments.

Skills

Nutritional Assessment

Dietetic Management

Nutrition Education

Teamwork

Communication Skills

Education

HCPC Registration

Tools

Enteral Equipment

Nutrition Products

Job description

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London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us #WeAreLNWH

Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy.

We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.

Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.

• H onesty
• A ccountability
• T eamwork

These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

Are you looking to develop your skills and enjoy a busy varied role within a well-established dietetic team? We have an additional part time post to deliver the clinical dietetic service for the medical wards at Ealing Hospital.

This post is part of a wider dietetic team at Northwick Park and Central Middlesex acute hospitals across Northwest London University Health NHS.

Main duties of the job

To provide a Clinical Dietetic service to patients in Ealing Hospital for both inpatients and outpatients where you will:

1. Assess and diagnose nutritional problems, manage patients with medical conditions requiring nutritional treatments.
2. Act as a source of expertise to members of Secondary Health Care Teams, other Health professionals, and patients/carers.
3. Develop and provide nutrition education and training to professionals, catering staff within Ealing Hospital and student dietitians.

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

• HCPC.

Knowledge and experience

• Knowledge of Nutrition products, enteral equipment.
• Able to apply best practice for dietetic management for a range of conditions.
• Knowledge of diversity issues and ability to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
• Competence in assessment and prescription of artificial nutrition.
• Experience of organising home enteral discharges from hospital.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.

Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.

As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BME (Black, Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.