Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Specialist Critical Care Dietitian to join our friendly and enthusiastic Adult Dietetics Department at the Royal London Hospital.
This position presents an excellent prospect for a highly organised and ambitious Dietitian to work in a specialist tertiary critical care unit, covering a variety of specialisms including patients with traumatic and neurological injuries along with general medical and surgical patients. As a critical care specialist you will be able to work autonomously to provide complex nutrition support to this varied cohort of patients while having the opportunity to support and develop more junior dietitians to specialise in this area too.
The successful candidate should be very motivated and hard-working with previous experience of managing a very busy caseload along with experience of leadership and successful line management. You will also have the opportunity to deputise for the Lead Critical Care Dietitian as needed.
There is scope to expand and develop the dietetic team and the successful candidate is expected to engage and lead in service development. Excellent communication skills and multidisciplinary working is required. The critical care unit at the Royal London Hospital is at the forefront of research and its multidisplinary team is paving the way to consider different strategies for ensuring our patients receive optimal nutritional support.
Main duties of the job
To provide expert dietetic knowledge and experience to provide an effective dietetic service to complex critical care patients requiring Nutritional Support. This includes enteral and parenteral support.
To provide specialist assessment, treatment and/or advice to in-patients
To work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To actively contribute to the development of the acute dietetic service and the dietetic service on critical care.
To support and supervise dietetic staff
To support and provide training as required to the MDT
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.
- Qualification in area of specialisation or evidence of significant experience in speciality area.
- HCPC registered.
Desirable
- Post Gradualte training in critical care / advanced nutritional support.
- Supplementary prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in the area of complex nutrition support (to include significant experience within the area of Critical Care).
- Experience in the provision of Parenteral Nutrition
- Experience in taking part in project work that supports improvement in service or supports a change in practice
- Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience in developing a service and establishing/maintaining a dietetic presence within an MDT.
Desirable
- Experience in working with other specialist dietitians from other trusts to undertake service review/improvement.
- Experience in utilising indirect calorimetry to calculate nutritional requirements.
Skills
Essential
- Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to postgraduate standard in area of speciality.
- Experience of supervision and line management of staff including completing appraisals, 1:1 meetings and objective setting and able to work within Trust policy and support line reports to do the same.
- Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups, and deliver complex nutritional information.
- Ability to use behavioural change/ motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate change.
- Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care.
- Able to demonstrate and effectively utilise leadership skills.
- Able to undertake accurate anthropometric measurements eg. weights, heights, skinfold thickness to support the assessment of patients nutritional status.
- Able to interpret a variety of complex clinical information to make dietetic diagnosis in area of speciality.
- Ability to implement dietetic care plan and provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients in area of speciality.
- Regularly undertakes R&D activity e.g. Critical Appraisal, Audit and is confident in the audit process.
- Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality.
- Able to work with young adults and the understanding of their needs and priorities.
Desirable
- Evidence of planning multiple student placements across the year for a dietetic department with relevant stakeholder involvement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification.
- Qualification in area of specialisation or evidence of significant experience in speciality area.
- HCPC registered.
Desirable
- Post Gradualte training in critical care / advanced nutritional support.
- Supplementary prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in the area of complex nutrition support (to include significant experience within the area of Critical Care).
- Experience in the provision of Parenteral Nutrition
- Experience in taking part in project work that supports improvement in service or supports a change in practice
- Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience in developing a service and establishing/maintaining a dietetic presence within an MDT.
Desirable
- Experience in working with other specialist dietitians from other trusts to undertake service review/improvement.
- Experience in utilising indirect calorimetry to calculate nutritional requirements.
Skills
Essential
- Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to postgraduate standard in area of speciality.
- Experience of supervision and line management of staff including completing appraisals, 1:1 meetings and objective setting and able to work within Trust policy and support line reports to do the same.
- Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups, and deliver complex nutritional information.
- Ability to use behavioural change/ motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate change.
- Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care.
- Able to demonstrate and effectively utilise leadership skills.
- Able to undertake accurate anthropometric measurements eg. weights, heights, skinfold thickness to support the assessment of patients nutritional status.
- Able to interpret a variety of complex clinical information to make dietetic diagnosis in area of speciality.
- Ability to implement dietetic care plan and provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients in area of speciality.
- Regularly undertakes R&D activity e.g. Critical Appraisal, Audit and is confident in the audit process.
- Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality.
- Able to work with young adults and the understanding of their needs and priorities.
Desirable
- Evidence of planning multiple student placements across the year for a dietetic department with relevant stakeholder involvement.
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).
