Dietitian - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

It is an exciting opportunity for for a newly qualified dietitian, or existing band 5 dietitian, who is seeking further experience in large teaching hospital.

We are looking for enthusiastic, hardworking team players to join our friendly and dynamic band 5 team, where you will be working with GI, general medicine and community teams.

We provide our band 5 team with structured six monthly rotations where you will develop your skills and experience across a wide range of clinical areas including older people and orthopaedics, surgery and gastroenterology, acute care, general medicine, cardiovascular and community.

The rotations cover a mixture of inpatient areas, outpatient clinics, integrated community services, delivering talks to patients, staff and students providing a challenging and supportive environment on which to build your dietetic career.

To work as part of the Band 5 Dietetic Team responsible for providing individualised dietetic advice to inpatients, outpatients, staff and carers across St Thomas' Hospital and local communities of Lambeth and Southwark.

The post may involve delivering group education sessions across acute and community settings.

We offer a well evaluated CPD programme with supervision from senior dietitians across a range of specialties including oncology, renal, gastroenterology, stroke, diabetes, HIV and paediatrics, and protected time for professional development.

As such we are able to provide excellent learning opportunities and encourage professional development in the role.

You will be provided with regular clinical supervision and regular 1:1s for support, empowering you to deliver high quality, safe and compassionate care.

You will be joining a team of over 100 dietitians and the department has excellent secretarial support from our administration team, and clinical support from dietetic assistants at St Thomas's.

We are a large training centre for student dietitians on placement 1, 2 and 3 and you will be actively involved with this.

The department aims to provide a quality service through evidence based practice and listening to staff and patient feedback.

Clinical responsibilities

To be responsible for providing a comprehensive evidence-based dietetic service for patients and carers

This will include:

The provision of a comprehensive and effective dietetic service, providing nutritional counselling to patients on designated acute wards and community sites, in conjunction with the supervising clinical specialist.
To provide expert advice to patients, carers and clinicians regarding provision of nutritional support for patients based on clinical evidence. This will involve nutritional assessment; to include the calculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition and other physical parameters.
To provide nutritional counselling to patients and carers in the outpatient setting on appropriate dietary treatment and management where training in post registration cognitive behaviour therapy is required
Ability to develop and use communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural population both on a one to one and in groups.
To directly prescribe nutritional supplements, vitamins and mineral supplements as agreed with the medical team.
To communicate and liaise with the community multidisciplinary team regarding nutritional management of patients and where necessary providing information and education to clinicians and carers.
To advise and liaise with catering staff concerning the special dietary requirements of inpatients, and to assist in instructing chefs on the preparation of therapeutic diets as required.
To provide nutrition teaching sessions to other members of the multi disciplinary team on the following topics: care of the elderly, nutrition screening, coronary heart disease, COPD and all appropriate health promotion initiatives both in hospital and the local community
To be responsible for the discharge planning of patients going home on artificial nutritional support.
To work as team to prioritise a large caseload and support each other to deliver quality, safe and efficient patient care

Professional Responsibilities

To participate fully in the appraisal process and develop a strategy for continuing professional development encompassing a portfolio based assessment in line with national legislation.
To be an active team member of the dietetic department at Guy's and St Thomas' participating in departmental developments and projects and attending staff and continuing professional development meetings.
To carry out administrative duties in line with local standards and policies including ensuring adequate patient records are kept and all requirements for data collection are met.

Education & Training