Complex Nutritional Support Dietitian

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a highly motivated Dietitian to lead the Dietetics service for Specialist Medicine and provide complex nutritional support on the specialist medicine wards in east London.

The role requires expert knowledge in complex nutrition, including parenteral nutrition, and leadership to supervise junior staff and drive service development. A strong multidisciplinary approach and quality improvement experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Expert level dietetic assessment and advice for a specialist caseload.
• Experience with complex nutrition support including enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• Leadership and line management experience with staff development.
• Strong communication and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Be the lead dietitian for dietetic interventions within specialist medicine across infectious diseases, endocrinology, respiratory medicine and elderly care.
• Support the Clinical Lead Dietitian with provision, performance and development of the specialist medicine dietetic service.
• Provide expert level dietetic assessment, treatment and advice to a complex caseload including PN/EN.
• Support junior dietitians through supervision, one-to-ones and training.
• Use advanced clinical reasoning to provide specialist advice to dietetic and clinical staff.
• Work in the multidisciplinary team to deliver an effective dietetic service and engage in capacity decisions for patients lacking capacity.
• Plan and deliver specialist nutrition training to medical staff, nurses and students.
• Contribute to trust-wide policies, protocols and guidelines.

Skills

Clinical nutrition

Dietetic leadership

Enteral nutrition

Parenteral nutrition

Supervision of junior staff

Communication skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Quality improvement

Job description

This contract for this role will end on 31st December 2029.

• To be the lead dietitian for dietetic interventions within specialist medicine - this includes infectious diseases and immunity, endocrinology, respiratory medicine and care of the elderly.
• To support the Clinical Lead Dietitian with provision, performance and development of the specialist medicine dietetic service.
• To be responsible for providing expert level dietetic assessment, treatment and advice to a specialist caseload with complex nutritional support requirements including complicated endocrinology, infectionand immunity, HIV, respiratory diseases andcardiology. This may include enteral and parenteral nutritional support.
• To support junior dietitians in the provision of dietetic support within these clinical areas, and to assist their development and career progression through supervision, one to ones and training.
• To use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to dietetic and other clinical staff within Barts Health.
• Working within the multidisciplinary team to provide an effective dietetic service to a variety of medical patients. This includes initiating and engaging in best interest discussions for patients who lack capacity.
• To be responsible for planning and delivering specialist nutrition training to medical staff, nurses and students and other health care professionals on intensive care.
• Partake in the development of trust wide policies, protocol and guidelines.

The position offers an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and ambitious Dietitian to lead the Dietetics service for Specialist Medicine and provide complex nutritional support on the specialist medicine wards. This includes a number of specialist areas including infection and immunity, complex endocrinology and respiratory. The successful candidate should have expert knowledge and experience within the area complex nutrition support and should be able to provide advice for parenteral nutrition. Preferably the successful candiate will also have experience working with people with complex mental health and social needs including exposure to people with eating disorders.

We are looking for applicants who are extremely motivated and hard-working with previous experience of managing a very busy caseload along with experience of leadership and successful line management. There is scope to expand and develop the services and the successful candidate is expected to engage and lead in service development. Excellent communication skills and multidisciplinary working is required. Evidence of undertaking quality improvement initiatives and service development is also essential.

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 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.