Job summary
- Main area
- DIETITIAN
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (WEEKEND WORKING AS PART OF DEPARTMENT ROTA; BEING FLEXIBLE TO SERVICE NEEDS)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (WEEKEND WORKING AS PART OF DEPARTMENT ROTA; BEING FLEXIBLE TO SERVICE NEEDS)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1473
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS TRUST
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro-rata if LTFT)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
FTC: Highly Specialist Dietitian for Critical Care & Nutrition Team
NHS AfC: Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6/Band 7. This is a fixed term contract for one year and will provide you with the opportunity to do something different and upskill. We are looking for an enthusiastic Dietitian to join our friendly and dynamic team at the North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH). The Dietetic Department is part of the Therapies group (Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech & Language Therapists) at the NMUH. We are the first Nutrition & Dietetic Department in London to commence seven day services. The post holder will be responsible for covering the expanding critical care unit complex, and the Nutrition Team. You will be required to clinically lead the dietetic surgical team, in conjunction with the current Band 7 dietitian for critical care. You will work with the Band 7 to clinically lead the critical care services. You will be required to liaise closely and effectively with the multidisciplinary team members to provide an excellent service.
Main duties of the job
To provide Service to the critical care services including the Trust Nutrition team. If appropriately trained and competent to practice, to take on the extended role of non-medical prescribing in the critical care and nutrition team within own scope of practice. This includes developing and updating policies and procedures. To provide expert opinion. To participate and contribute to the Nutrition Team, provide cover for other specialist services areas as and when required. To take the lead role for education programmes for patients and staff within and out-with the Trust, and to develop critical care education resources. To update critical care policies and procedures. To lead on and regularly participate in research and audit within critical care and the wider Dietetic Service. To participate and contribute to the Nutrition Team and provide cover for other specialist services areas as and when required. To participate in seven-day service on a Rota basis. Too undertake the planning, organisation, allocation, and training of student training for critical care. Multidisciplinary team working, close liaison between acute and community teams, and highly developed skills in communicating with patients, carers, and other service users is essential. To be joint clinical team lead for critical care team. To be responsible for supervision of critical care and parenteral nutrition team.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You should have excellent communication skills, be effective in multidisciplinary team working and be able to deliver both group education and individual interventions. You will have the opportunity to be involved in, and in some cases lead on, research, audits and other service development initiatives both within and out-with the dietetic department. You will be required to undertake teaching/training of other health professionals. You will be involved in student training for your area. The dietetic department undertakes student training for placements 2 and 3, and has a robust CPD programme, and are committed to providing excellent line management, supervision/support, specialist training and other forms of continuous professional development. In order to support you in this role, you would receive training and supervision tailored to your needs.
Further information in the job description attached.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • BSc in Dietetics 4 year degree course or equivalent • State Registered Dietitian with HPC • BDA member • BDA member of specialist group, critical care group network
Desirable criteria
- • Non-medical prescribing qualification registered with HCPC BDA • Post graduate diploma in advanced dietetic practice or equivalent in BDA postgraduate courses equivalent to Master’s degree
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Up to date clinical knowledge in critical care, including types of ventilation, dialysis • Knowledge of government strategy on above areas, NICE guidelines • Knowledge of critical care and general medications, voluntary organisations
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of audit • Experience of training student dietitians • Working as a team • Experience of working with different ethnic groups
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of research • Post graduate Courses on critical care, TPN, nutritional support
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to provide highly specialised treatment packages, plan and provide appropriate monitoring • Ability to analyse highly complex, conflicting information and deciding on the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options • Ability to supervise students, junior staff • Ability to communicate highly complex, conflicting, sensitive information • Ability to problem solve, bring solutions • Teaching and presentation skills to individuals and groups • Ability to work as part of a team and to liaise with professionals at all levels • Use of software packages including Word, Excel, nutritional assessment packages, statistical packages • Develop, implement policies and procedures • Ability to prioritise workload • Demonstrate time management • Flexible • Assertive • Accurate record keeping • Maintain confidentiality
Other attributes
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of commitment to CPD • Demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- MANDAKINI PATEL
- Job title
- HEAD OF NUTRITION & DIETETICS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816861658
- Additional information
For any queries about the post, please contact Mandakini Patel, Clinical & Professional Lead for Nutrition & Dietetics, on 0208 887 2405, mobile 07816861658, email [email protected].
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