About this role
Job summary
Dietitian - Band 6
Full time 37.5 hours per week
We have an opportunity within our team for a dietitian to cover a clinical caseload across the adult inpatient wards, rotating between the admission, surgical and medical wards.
The role is ideal for a dietitian with experience in the acute setting. specifically of creating oral and enteral nutrition plans for acutely unwell adult patients. You will also need experience of managing home enterally fed patients, admitted to the hospital and requiring adaptation of their usual feeding regimen and safe discharge home once well.
Once established within the role there will be the opportunity to be trained to cover ITU and Parenteral Nutrition rounds.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients on the adult wards, identifying medium and high risk patients and initiating interventions immediately to prevent further deterioration in nutritional status and associated complications.
To act as an expert resource for the management of adult inpatients and support the education and training of dietetic students and other health care professionals within the organisation.
To participate in audit and research activities within the department.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description Job responsibilities
To be responsible for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients on a variety of wards, identifying patients at medium and high-risk of malnutrition and initiating interventions immediately to prevent further deterioration in nutritional status and associated complications.
To be responsible for covering adult outpatient clinics and group talks for patients as required.
To support the education and training of dietetic students and other health care professionals within the organisation, with opportunity to undertake the Student Lead role within the department.
To participate in audit and research activities within the department.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
HCPC Registration
Experience Essential
Experience of oral and enteral nutrition support
Desirable
Experience of managing patients who have home enteral feeding either in or out of hospital
Communication Essential
Experience of communicating with members of the MDT
Desirable
Experience of communicating with colleagues outside of the acute setting
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.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address Whittington Hospital
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)