Clinical lead Dietitian (GAS)

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital seeks a Lead Dietitian for Gender Alignment services. In this role, you'll utilize your expertise to assess and support complex patients, while leading a multidisciplinary team. This opportunity offers a chance to influence clinical practice and contribute to service developments within a respected institution.

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience at Band 7/8a in relevant clinical areas.
• Experience managing teams in the NHS.
• Teaching experience and audit experience in service development.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical dietetic service in Gender Alignment.
• Manage and supervise Band 7 clinicians.
• Develop clinical service initiatives and implement changes.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Leadership

Teaching

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

UK professional registration

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be the Dietetic expert clinician for Gender Alignment services
• To take an active role within the Gender Alignment services multidisciplinary team and contribute dietetically towards the Gender Alignment services
• To contribute to regular managerial and clinical problem-solving and supervision of band 7 clinicians within dedicated teams.
• To work alongside the Inpatient Dietetic Clinical Leads to initiate and manage clinical service development initiatives, implementing and sustaining change where necessary.
• To utilise expert clinical reasoning and specialist skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in your dedicated clinical area and to provide specialist support and advice to other Dietetic staff whilst maintaining a caseload as an autonomous practitioner which includes highly complex patients.
• To utilise evidence based principles and current best practise guidelines
• To participate in CPD and other developmental activities
• To educate the multi-disciplinary team, Dietitians in the Trust and Dietitians nationally (as appropriate) on elements of Dietetics in your designated clinical area, and raise the profile of the Dietetic service in your designated clinical area within the service and Trust.
• To ensure that the Dietetic service in the designated clinical area is responsive to user requirements within the available resources and in accordance with directorate and departmental plans.

Person specification

essnetial and desirable

Essential criteria

• Significant post registration experience as a Band 7/8a in relevant clinical areas that are required for this role.
• Experience of team management in an NHS healthcare setting at band 7 / 8 level
• Evidence of supervision of more junior staff
• Leadership and participation of teaching/in-service programmes
• Demonstrable experience of audit in evaluating and developing a service
• Teaching experience to a broad range of clinicians and students
• Evidence of close working with all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Highly specialist knowledge of a range of conditions and treatments relevant to clinical area.

Desirable criteria

• Previous lecturing on external courses
• Liaising with external stakeholders and influencing decision making of senior leaders

Important

• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.

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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

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download

• Clinical Lead Dietitian (GAS) JD (PDF, 976.2KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 368.3KB)
• Guidance for applicants (PDF, 85.4KB)
• Policy Statement (PDF, 144.5KB)
• Staff Benefits and Wellbeing (PDF, 196.5KB)
• Recruitment Pack (PDF, 2.8MB)