Job summary
The Whipps Cross Dietetic team are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 dietitian to join our innovative department in this supervised rotational post.
Rotation 1: includes critical care experience with supervision
Rotation 2: includes gastroenterology experience with supervision
This position will give you a solid foundation from which you can build your career in most areas of acute dietetics. You will be working in a friendly team alongside both senior and experienced dietitians and support workers within the hospital and be able to access knowledge from the wider team of dietitians across Barts Health. This, along with regular supervision, close multidisciplinary working and peer learning will allow you to build on your confidence and skills in the inpatient setting.
Clinical specialities to learn about within the Whipps Cross team include parenteral nutrition, critical care, gastroenterology, surgery, medicine, oncology, older people's medicine, stroke and diabetes.
Enquiries to discuss the position are welcomed. Please contact Darcy Ayton, Senior Specialist Dietitian, via email darcy.ayton@nhs.net or Telephone: 0208 535 6829
Main duties of the job
Applicants must possess excellent communication and organisational skills in this busy role. The post holder will be required to travel to other sites across Barts Health on occasion for team development meetings and very occasionally to work. Some experience would be beneficial but not essential in succeeding in your application to this post.
To work together with the dietetic team to provide an effective dietetic service to adult in-patients at Whipps Cross Hospital. To ensure that research and audit is undertaken on a regular basis in order to ensure practice is evidence based. This post will have a requirement to work on any adult ward and may be required to work across or attend meetings on any of the sites within Barts Health on request.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification
- HCPC registered
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience in acute and/or community setting
- Experience of working with a team and understanding team dynamics
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of own knowledge and skills and ability to identify learning needs and interests
Skills
Essential
- Ability to supervise student dietitians and clinical support workers after 6 months at Band 5 level (history of supervision helpful)
- Experience in working single handedly with individuals and groups
- Demonstrates ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care
- Experience in undertaking audit and changing practice in accordance with findings
- Ability to research and interpret literature and apply to own practice to ensure clinical practice is up to date
- Demonstrates computer literacy i.e. competent in Microsoft word, power point, excel
- History of managing own workload and the organizational skills required for this
- Ability to take own initiative, manage time and plan own workload
- Evidence of commitment to CPD
- Demonstrable excellent communication skills within own profession and within the multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Ability to demonstrate behaviour change/ motivational interviewing through dietetic consultations
- Leadership skills i.e through development of a project/service development or managing staff
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification
- HCPC registered
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience in acute and/or community setting
- Experience of working with a team and understanding team dynamics
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of own knowledge and skills and ability to identify learning needs and interests
Skills
Essential
- Ability to supervise student dietitians and clinical support workers after 6 months at Band 5 level (history of supervision helpful)
- Experience in working single handedly with individuals and groups
- Demonstrates ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care
- Experience in undertaking audit and changing practice in accordance with findings
- Ability to research and interpret literature and apply to own practice to ensure clinical practice is up to date
- Demonstrates computer literacy i.e. competent in Microsoft word, power point, excel
- History of managing own workload and the organizational skills required for this
- Ability to take own initiative, manage time and plan own workload
- Evidence of commitment to CPD
- Demonstrable excellent communication skills within own profession and within the multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Ability to demonstrate behaviour change/ motivational interviewing through dietetic consultations
- Leadership skills i.e through development of a project/service development or managing staff
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
