Dietitian - Band 6

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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 Trust believes 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.

Detailed job description and main 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 criteria

• HCPC Registration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of oral and enteral nutrition support

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing patients who have home enteral feeding either in or out of hospital

Communication

Essential criteria

• Experience of communicating with members of the MDT

Desirable criteria

• Experience of communicating with colleagues outside of the acute setting

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.