Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a full time Band 5 Acute Dietitian to join our St Helier acute adult dietetic team. This is an exciting chance to join our friendly department which provides dietetic services to St. Helier Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, the South West Thames Renal Unit and the Diabetes Centre. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our dynamic team. There will be opportunities for cross site working at Epsom Hospital.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain a range of dietetic experience in a supportive environment. You may be newly qualified or wish to consolidate your existing experience before moving on to a more specialised role.

The successful candidate will provide a dietetic service to acute medical and care of the elderly wards.

We actively encourage personal development and you will have the opportunity to learn from colleagues working in specialist areas. The department currently provides training for placement 1, 2 and 3 students and you will participate in this as part of the team.

Main duties of the job

·      To provide advice to referred patients and carers, and clinicians.  

·      To interpret received information concerning medical and social history to ensure advice is given in a person centred and culturally specific way.

·      To undertake one oncology clinic per month.

·      To support the use of a nutrition-screening tool for inpatients to ensure patients are appropriately referred to the dietitian.

·      To undertake training to be deemed competent in the use of all equipment related to nutritional assessment and enteral feeding.

·      To undertake training and be deemed competent in the management of enteral feeding tubes including balloon volume changes and advance and rotating.

·      To be responsible for the discharge planning of patients going home on artificial nutritional support.

·      To identify patients who will need to be followed up in the community and make appropriate onward dietetic referrals.

·      To liaise with pharmacy staff to ensure the correct provision of nutritional supplements and enteral feeding products.

·      To liaise with catering staff, concerning the dietary requirements of the patients, and to work with the catering department in the provision of therapeutic diets.

·      To provide nutrition teaching sessions to other members of the multidisciplinary team and identified patient groups as required.

·      To work closely with the dietetic team to provide an appropriate service to patients.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). 

 After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.