Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (01/09/25)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1268
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Specialist Dietitian
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Band 6 dietitian to join our rotational team. This post will enter the rotations in the renal dietetic team on the Hammersmith site, where you will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills, but also be involved in service development and student training.
Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills, with formal training in parenteral nutrition, renal or critical care where appropriate. All rotations require skills to manage complex enteral tube nutritional support and multidisciplinary working. There is also some line management opportunities.
We are a large, high profile, friendly department involved in undergraduate and post graduate medical training. We also facilitate placement 1, 2’s and 3’s for dietetic students and are involved in teaching other health professionals such as nursing and therapy colleagues. The department is forward thinking and our service delivery is very much influenced by the audits and research projects we carry out which are supported by excellent IT facilities and Quality Improvement initiatives. The department also supports robust CPD for all staff members.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main 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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Recognised Degree and/or postgraduate diploma
- • Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
- • Eligible for HCPC registration (Dietitian)
- • Evidence of on-going CPD
- • Supervisory skills training
Desirable criteria
- • Post registration validated professional course e.g. PENG
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Clinical experience of working with complex patients in the acute NHS setting.
- • Experience of being involved in audit
- • Experience of clinical supervision of students and junior staff
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working in a teaching hospital
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Time management/Organisational skills
- • Computer literacy including email, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- • Basic nutritional assessment techniques
- • Use of dietary assessment software
- • Ability to work as a team member and autonomously as a specialist within department guidelines
- • Demonstrates an awareness of diversity
- • Ability to prioritise a busy workload
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzanne Evans
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
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