Highly Specialist Critical Care Dietitian

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; Sur place; GBP 42 000 - 54 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts is recruiting a Highly Specialist Critical Care Dietitian to join the team at Queens Medical Centre (QMC) and City Hospital. You will deliver high-quality nutrition care and support complex interventions within a MDT framework, contributing to training and development across the service.

The post requires HCPC registration, strong leadership and communication skills, and a commitment to audit and improvement of nutritional care in critical care settings

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is required.
• Experience in critical care nutrition and nutrition support desirable.
• Ability to lead training and development within the team.

Responsabilités

• Deliver high quality, patient-centred nutrition care in critical care.
• Support complex nutritional interventions and nutrition support/enteral feeding.
• Lead development work to improve nutritional care and participate in audits.

Connaissances

Clinical dietetics

Leadership

Communication

Education & training

Formation

HCPC registration

Description du poste

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Highly Specialist Critical Care Dietitian

The closing date is 15 November 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a dietitian to enhance their clinical and leadership skills in critical care as part of our team at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust. This role will be a split role between QMC and City Hospital.

We are looking for a forward thinking dietitian to join our team of dietitians, based at Queens Medical Centre and City Hospital. You will become an integral member of our multidisciplinary team delivering high quality patient-centred dietetic care. We are an exceptional, dynamic and supportive team with a strong MDT ethos.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support complex nutritional interventions as well as nutrition support and enteral feeding so some experience in these would be beneficial. You be involved in supporting the rotational Band 6 dietitians within critical care, helping with training and development. We actively encourage service improvement and audit and the successful candidate would have the opportunity to lead development work to improve nutritional care of our patients.

You’ll need to have excellent communication and leadership skills, a flexible approach and the ability to manage your own time and workload and that of other members of staff within a supportive team. Experience of nutritional support and evidence of a varied clinical experience is desirable.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.

Person Specification

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards

Training & Qualifications

• Health and Care Professional Council registration
• Able to maintain a professional portfolio for CPD, recording learning outcomes through participation in internal and external development opportunities
• Evidence of post registration education in specialist clinical areas

Experience

• Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area
• Knowledge of management processes to be able to provide 1st line management
• Experience of delegating to and supervising other members of the team
• Able to plan and deliver clinical education about theory and practice to individuals, team and the wider MDT (including students)
• Knowledge of current best practice within a clinical specialty
• Knowledge of national and local standards and national guidelines
• Basic IT and computer skills and have the ability to learn how to use specific software
• Able to undertake evidence based audit of own practice and the practice of other staff within a specific clinical area
• Able to evaluate current research and make recommendations for change in practice and implement these changes

Communication and Relationship Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to discuss treatment options and recommend best course of intervention to patients and carers using negotiating, persuasive, motivational and reassurance skills
• Be able to effectively use a range of communication skills with patients to progress treatment plans.
• Able to adapt approach in order to respect individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients
• Able to understand team dynamics and adapt approach to achieve the best outcome for patients
• Able to handle confidential information from colleagues, patient and carers with sensitivity
• Communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors
• Able to present clinical information to health professions at National Conference level or equivalent

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and the performance of other staff
• Risk assessment skills for the safe management and discharge of very complex patients
• Analyse information from clinical assessments and make judgements about appropriate interventions for highly complex patients
• Use reasoning skills and knowledge of a range of treatment options to formulate and deliver specialist treatment programmes
• Able to make decisions about the treatment needs of highly complex patients
• Able to make decisions about the allocation of a caseload to a team of staff
• Able to make judgements about the prioritising of caseloads when demand exceeds capacity and to re-allocate staffing resources
• Lead on the development of improvements in service delivery and clinical practice using evidence based practice to recommend changes
• Understands responsibility of self and others for clinical and cost effective use of resources
• Able to record and use relevant information in daily work including computer data entry of patient and other information and support other member so the team in doing so

Planning and Organisation Skills

• Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand
• Able to organise and plan the activity of staff and self
• Able to organise, plan and chair meetings
• Able to lead in the development, review and implementation of relevant polices and service development, recognising and responding to wider strategic concerns

Physical Skills

• Able to use and/or manoeuvre a range of medical devices including, for example, handling/assistive and anthropometric equipment if applicable.

Other requirements specific to the role (eg be able to drive or work shifts)

• Undertake out of hours duties as required.
• Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts