Specialist Dietitian

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Acute and General Medicine dietetic team at St Thomas' Hospital in a fixed term role as Band 6 Specialist Dietitian.

The post holder will have the opportunity to gain in-depth nutrition support experience in a specialist acute medicine and older adults role working with a wide variety of multimorbid patients experiencing complex health, social and psychological challenges. They will offer specialist dietetic input to the acute admissions ward and the older person's unit wards as well as delivering outpatient care to multimorbid older adults in both virtual and face-to-face clinics and group education sessions, often working closely with our MDT colleagues in rehabilitation. The dietitian role is well-integrated into the multidisciplinary team and offers quality improvement, audit and research opportunities through evaluating our service and collecting patient outcome data. Supervision of junior team members is available (based on experience) as well as access to our range of personal development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The post will include covering inpatients on the acute admissions ward and older person's unit, as well as outpatient older person's clinics and patient education groups. You will need significant knowledge of dietary management of complex multimorbid patients including nutrition support and enteral nutrition in order to deliver an expert dietetic service.

The important role of nutrition is valued and well recognised by the acute medicine and ageing and health teams. The role requires close multi-disciplinary team working to provide excellent patient care including attendance to MDT meetings, patient discussions and nutrition education. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills will be required. The post also includes supporting and supervising junior staff (based on experience), students and dietetic apprentices, providing the opportunity to demonstrate and develop skills in leadership and supervision.

This role is engaged in service development, both within the acute and general medicine team and trust-wide as part of continued efforts to improve hospital catering and food and drink provision to our inpatients.

About us

The post holders will be joining a team of over 100 Dietitians working across Guy's, St Thomas', the Evelina Children's Hospital, and Lambeth, Southwark community services. The department has a strong commitment to research and teaching.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Thomas' Hospital

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Thomas' Hospital

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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