Specialist Critical Care Dietitian

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and dynamic Dietitian to join our team of over 60 Dietetic staff at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

King's has a long and illustrious history with emerging works in the area of science and nutrition. The authors of the Composition of Foods, Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance met at Denmark Hill in the 1930's and Dr R.D. Lawrence and the author H.G. Wells founded the British Diabetes Association (now known as Diabetes UK) from this Hospital on the Denmark Hill site.

The Nutrition and Dietetic Department at KCH employs over 60 staff across three main sites; Denmark Hill, Princess Royal University Hospital, and Orpington Hospital. We are leaders in several areas of clinical care including paediatrics, hepatology, diabetes, renal, cystic fibrosis, complex obesity and neurosciences.

Dietetics within Critical Care is currently an expanding field of practice and a well-established service within King's. King's Critical Care is a world-class centre, the biggest in the country with 85-90 ventilated beds at the DH site. This is an exciting opportunity to join the King's College Hospital Critical Care Dietetic team, offering the successful candidate a unique workplace experience and the prospect to be part of a world-class service.

Main duties of the job

This 0.8WTE Band 7 Critical Care Dietitian post will be based at the Denmark Hill site.

As a part of the Critical Care service at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the successful candidate will have an opportunity to develop their clinical skills to provide specialist care for critically ill patients under the following specialties:

1. Major trauma
2. Neurosurgery, neurology, spinal injuries
3. Cardiology & cardiothoracics
4. Renal medicine

The successful post holder will work closely with all members of the MDT to provide an expert Nutrition and Dietetic service to our patients.

You will play an integral role in the large, supportive dietetic team at KCH. Our Nutrition and Dietetics department expects all staff to be involved in the teaching of other healthcare professionals, in line with our mission to provide excellence in clinical care, research and teaching in King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.

About us

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification for full details of this job role, including the clinical and non-clinical aspects.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registered (Dietitian)
• A recognised and appropriate post-graduate course

Skills/knowledge/attributes

• Previous dietetic experience within the specialist area of Critical Care in the NHS
• Experience of Parenteral Nutrition in the acute setting
• Experience of initiating and facilitating clinical audit
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Good oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
• Ability to prioritise own workload and support caseload management of junior staff/students
• Ability to work as part of a team, identifying and leading on service change
• Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions
• Able to reflect and appraise own performance
• Demonstrate King's Values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experience pro rata inclusive of HCAS