Highly Specialist Diabetes Dietitian St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a specialist diabetes dietitian, where you will play a crucial role in enhancing the health outcomes of diabetic patients. This engaging position focuses on delivering nutritional management and education to adults, especially those with Type 1 diabetes. You will work within a dynamic multidisciplinary team while also having the autonomy to develop and implement innovative practices. Your contributions will be vital in shaping diabetes care, participating in research, and advocating for patient needs. If you are passionate about making a difference in diabetes management, this is the opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge and experience in diabetes dietetics required.
• Ability to work autonomously and problem solve independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist dietetic service to diabetic inpatients and outpatients.
• Develop nutrition policies, guidelines, and participate in audits.

Skills

Diabetes Dietetics

Patient Education

Nutritional Management

Problem Solving

Education

Advanced Knowledge in Diabetes Dietetics

Tools

CGM Devices

Insulin Pumps

Hybrid-Closed Loop Systems

Job description

To work as a member of the diabetes dietetic team at St Georges Hospital. To be responsible for providing a highly specialist dietetic service to diabetic inpatients and outpatients; following evidence based practice, being an active multidisciplinary team member, educator, developing nutrition policies and guidelines, participating in audit and research related to diabetes in order to improve health outcomes and develop the role and service.

This is a predominantly outpatient role providing nutritional management and specialist diabetes education to adults with diabetes with a focus on Type 1 diabetes.

It involves working with diabetes technology including CGM devices, insulin pumps and hybrid-closed loop systems.

Education is provided to patients in one-to-one and group settings and includes facilitation of DAFNE courses and pump education groups.

The role works closely within the multi-disciplinary team but also requires autonomous working and the ability to problem solve independently.

The role involves service development and audit activities as well as teaching and advocating for the Type 1 service plus ICB funding applications for insulin pump (technology).

You should have advanced knowledge and experience of diabetes dietetics. This role involves working with inpatients and outpatients and delivering patient education sessions.

The post holder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of:

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.

This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Mar 2025.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.