Obesity Specialist Practitioner

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Obesity Specialist Practitioner at a leading NHS foundation trust in London. The role involves managing complex obesity and diabetes in a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high standards of patient care. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in diabetes and obesity management.

Qualifications

• Post registration experience in Diabetes/endocrinology/obesity.
• Experience managing diabetes and obesity with injectable therapies.

Responsibilities

• Act as an autonomous practitioner managing complex obesity and diabetes.
• Develop and evaluate specialist services for patient care.
• Conduct clinical audits and support healthcare professionals.

Skills

Group Education

History Taking

Data Interpretation

Education

NPharm degree

BSC degree (health related)

Post graduate qualification

Job description

Main area Obesity and Diabetes Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (This is a fixed term post for 12 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hrs Monday to Friday) Job ref 196-NM12888

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guys and St Thomas Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 p.a. inclusive of HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 28/05/2025 23:59

Obesity Specialist Practitioner

Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a progressive role supporting adult obesity services at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a full-time dynamic band 7 Obesity Specialist Practitioner (Diabetes/Obesity Specialist Nurse or Clinical Pharmacist) to join our team and help shape obesity pathways across South East London.

The role involves acting as an autonomous practitioner in the management of complex obesity and diabetes across outpatient and inpatient settings. The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with doctors, dietitians, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists and physiotherapists. The post will require onsite working Monday to Friday with potential cross site duties in the community. The evolving landscape of obesity care is exciting and offers opportunities for innovative approaches to working.

Main duties of the job

The primary function of the role is to act as highly specialised practitioner working autonomously to assess, treat and prescribe for patients with diabetes and advise non-specialist practitioners on obesity management plans as required.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. They act as a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients. The post holder will actively undertake clinical audits and research within the specialist area.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. Also ensures the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centered care principles.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The primary function of the role is to act as highly specialised practitioner working autonomously to assess, treat and prescribe for patients with diabetes and obesity and advise non-specialist practitioners on obesity management plans as required.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. They act as a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients. The post holder will actively undertake clinical audits and research within the specialist area.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Education

• NPharm degree for pharmacists / BSC degree (health related) for nursing or equivalent qualification/training and experience
• Post registration experience or qualification in Diabetes/ endocrinology/ obesity
• Non -medical/ independent Prescriber completed or working towards
• To have or working towards a post graduate qualification
• Experience of working autonomously at a specialist level in diabetes/ endocrinology/ obesity
• Previous experience group education
• Experience in the management of diabetes and obesity with knowledge and experience in injectable therapies
• Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator

Skills and Knowledge

• Developed skills of group education
• Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
• Ability to interpret and analyse data and findings

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Name Claudia Coelho Job title Consultant diabetes, obesity and endocrinology Email address [e-mail]