Specialist Dietitian - Gastroenterology

Cleveland Clinic; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a Specialist Dietitian for the Gastroenterology team. This full-time role offers a competitive salary starting from £45,000. Candidates should have a BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics and experience in Gastroenterology. The position involves providing expert dietetic assessment and educating healthcare professionals. Benefits include 25 days annual leave, private medical and dental insurance, and a pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Double-matched salary exchange pension

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Life Assurance

Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

Workplace Nursery Scheme

Wellbeing Hub

Early access to wages

Access to discounts on food and retail

Qualifications

• Required experience with Gastroenterology cases as a Specialist Dietitian.
• Ongoing professional development in the specialist area.
• Experience in facilitating clinical Dietetic student placements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Dietetic service.
• Provide expert dietetic assessment of complex healthcare needs.
• Educate and train healthcare professionals in nutrition management.
• Participate in clinical audit projects to monitor dietetic effectiveness.
• Attend MDT meetings and contribute specialist dietetic advice.

Skills

Expert dietetic assessment

Nutritional management

Clinical supervision

Evidence-based practice

Education

BSc (Hons) Nutrition and Dietetics

Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council

Job description

Our vision is to be the best place for healthcare anywhere and the best place to work in healthcare.

We believe that every life deserves world class healthcare.

Job Summary

Salary: Starting from £45,000, depending on experience

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7HY, with some cross site working expected.

Contract: Full-time, permanent

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Specialist Dietitian – Gastroenterology to join our Dietetics Team with a competitive salary range on offer, starting from £45,000

This is a Monday-Friday role with the following shift patterns :

0830-1630 (flexibility required between 0800-1800)

There are on call requirements within this role.

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.

This role will focus on developing, delivering and evaluating a highly specialist and evidence-based Nutrition and Dietetic service with the provision of expert dietetic assessment, treatment and advice. As an experienced practitioner, the Specialist dietitian will work alongside Pharmacy and the Advanced Specialist dietitians and will provide dietetic input into the multidisciplinary Nutrition Support Team. This role will be responsible for the dissemination of clinical updates relating to the wards. There is an expectation that this role will contribute to provision of on call remote dietetic weekend and bank holiday cover – all dietitians within the team on a rota basis will cover this. In order to meet the changing demands of an evolving dietetic service, the post holder will also provide support with ward cover and general dietetic clinic cover routinely.

What will your duties include?

• Assists with the development and delivery of the Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Dietetic service – advises on policy, guidance and standards in order to ensure that high quality dietetic input is provided to all patients.
• Works autonomously and within the multidisciplinary team in providing expert dietetic assessment of patients with diverse and highly complex physical healthcare needs. This will include the calculation of nutritional requirements, interpretation of relevant biochemistry and consideration of anthropometry, physical and mental health parameters and clinical condition.
• Educates, trains and provides clinical supervision and clinical leadership to dietitians, and other healthcare professionals in the management of nutrition and hydration.
• Takes part in clinical audit projects in order to monitor and review dietetic input and effectiveness
• Provides specialist dietetic advice to the multidisciplinary team through attendance and participation in MDT meetings and ward rounds.
• Specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice in the nutritional management of patients within complex nutrition support (enteral and parenteral).

What we need from you?

BSc (Hons) Nutrition and Dietetics or Postgraduate diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics. (required)

Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. (required)

Evidence of ongoing professional development and training in specialist area. (required)

Evidence of involvement in the facilitation of clinical Dietetic student placements (clinical supervisory skills training). (required)

Previous experience working with Gastroenterology cases as a Specialist Dietitian (required)

What We Offer

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including :

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Life Assurance

Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

Workplace Nursery Scheme

Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support

Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed

Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email

Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity / Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment / engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.