Dietician

Barts Health NHS Trust; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Whipps Cross Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust, is recruiting two Band 6 Dietitians on a rotational basis. You will work across gastroenterology, oncology and critical care, spanning inpatient and outpatient caseloads.

Join a supportive Nutrition and Dietetics team with strong CPD, supervision, and opportunities to lead local improvements while delivering high-quality patient care in east London.

Qualifications

• Evidence-based dietetic practice across specialist clinical areas.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver patient care.
• Ability to develop and deliver teaching sessions and supervise staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality dietetic service to patients at Whipps Cross Hospital, completing nutritional assessments and treatment plans.
• Independently manage a caseload and provide cross-cover to colleagues as required.
• Contribute to MDT discussions, attend meetings, and support policy and guideline development.
• Line manage and supervise junior dietitians and dietetic support workers.
• Participate in audits and quality improvement initiatives; maintain CPD activity.

Skills

Clinical dietetics

NHS experience

Audit & service eval

Teaching & supervision

Leadership

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

BSc Nutrition and Dietetics

HCPC registered

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Dietetics Team at Whipps Cross Hospital as a Band 6 Dietitian. We are hiring 2 x candidates. This is a rotational post joining three other band 6 dietitians, with rotations covering gastroenterology, oncology and critical care (including both inpatient and outpatient oncology caseloads), orthopaedics, and acute stroke.We are looking forward to welcoming a motivated, enthusiastic and dynamic individual to our Nutrition and Dietetic team, which consists of ten dietitians and two dietetic support workers. The successful candidate will bring a strong foundation of clinical dietetic skills and will have the opportunity to further develop these within a busy, well supported acute setting.Barts Health is committed to high quality, work-based education and training to support the development of both clinical and leadership skills. Staff benefit from a robust supervision structure, regular CPD opportunities, and encouragement to participate in quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient care and service delivery.

**We expect a high number of applications so the advert is very likely to close early. We recommend getting applications in as soon as possible.**

Main duties of the job

• Provide a high-quality dietetic service to patients at Whipps Cross Hospital, completing comprehensive nutritional assessments and developing evidence-based treatment and monitoring plans across specialist clinical areas in collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT)
• Independently manage a caseload of patients and provide cross-cover support to colleagues as requiredo
• Provide expertise in nutrition and dietetics within dedicated MDTs, contributing to clinical discussions, attending relevant meetings, delivering teaching to healthcare professionals and supporting the development of resources, policies and clinical guidelines
• Line manage and provide clinical supervision and support to junior dietitians and dietetic support workers
• Engage in audit, service evaluation and quality improvement initiatives as relevant to the role
• Maintain up-to-date, evidence-based practice through regular CPD activities and reflective learning
• Support the dietetics and wider therapies team with non-clinical duties as required to support smooth service delivery
• This is a rotational post based at Whipps Cross Hospital; rotations include elements of clinical specialty alongside general medical and surgical wards. Specialties include: gastroenterology, oncology and critical care, orthopaedics and acute stroke. Postholders rotate every 9-12 months. Rotations are at the discretion of the clinical lead dietitian and senior dietetics team.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent postgraduate qualification
• HCPC registered

Experience

• Evidence of practical, post registration experience as a dietitian, performing duties and responsibilities comparable to those described in the job description
• Experience of working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals to deliver patient care
• Experience of working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals to deliver service development and quality improvement
• Experience of conducting relevant audits and service evaluations
• Experience of developing and delivering teaching sessions related to nutrition and dietetics
• Experience of delivering undergraduate student education/supervision and assessment
• Experience of directly line managing junior dietetic team staff including clinical supervision
• Experience of working in the NHS

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate specialist knowledge in dietetics and nutrition support, including knowledge of the evidence base and key policies, guidelines and research relating to acute nutrition support.
• Insight into own knowledge and skills and able to identify own learning needs.
• Able to discuss and evidence regular engagement in continuing professional development in nutrition and dietetics/relevant clinical topics
• Understanding of the concept of clinical governance and able to demonstrate everyday examples of practice

Skills

• Able to complete thorough nutritional assessment of complex patients and develop robust dietetic treatment and monitoring plans using clinical reasoning and decision-making skills
• Organisation and time management skills; able to manage a busy case load and workload of clinical and non clinical duties ensuring productivity and effective use of time
• Able to work autonomously and collaboratively with professionals from the same and different disciplines to deliver services and patient care
• Leadership and mentoring skills
• Presentation skills; able to advocate for and present patient cases at ward level and at meetings, represent the dietetics profession at meetings/events and deliver teaching/educational sessions to other healthcare professionals and patients
• Strong IT skills, able to use Microsoft programmes, email and local patient information systems competently
• Able to manage conflict and difficult situations with support
• Able to create relevant and appropriate content for social media to showcase and support the work of the dietetics team locally and at trust level

Other

• Able to participate in weekend/bank holiday rotas as required

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.