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Job requirements
Essential
33 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Able to comply with trust manual handling guidelines and travel to different dialysis sites.
- Experience
Broad range of clinical experience, across a variety of clinical areas
- Experience
Experience of managing renal patients
- Experience
Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
- Experience
Presentation to groups/teaching other Healthcare Professionals
- Experience
Student training and/or management of junior therapists
- Experience
Leadership in an audit or project, and knowledge of clinical standards in the management of chronic kidney disease
- Experience
Proficient use of PC & working knowledge of Microsoft Office and nutritional analysis software
- Skills and apptitudes
Able to work autonomously and use initiative
- Skills and apptitudes
Ability to carry out nutritional assessments, such as anthropometry, subjective global assessment, bioelectrical impedance analysis, estimation of dietary intake of macro/micronutrients
- Skills and apptitudes
Good time management and organisational skills
- Skills and apptitudes
Effective clinical reasoning skills & ability to reflect on own practice
- Skills and apptitudes
Appreciation of need for personal accountability for governance issues (to include confidentiality, Health & safety and risk management) and how these affect self and others
- Skills and apptitudes
Effective verbal communication skills with a range of patients and healthcare professionals
- Skills and apptitudes
Effective written communication skills
- Skills and apptitudes
Ability to treat others with compassion, dignity and respect, taking into account diversity considerations
- Skills and apptitudes
Able to manage clinical caseload and prioritise effectively
- Skills and apptitudes
Able to support junior staff to manage and prioritise their clinical caseload
- Skills and apptitudes
Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary, with a willingness to be personally accountable for actions
- Skills and apptitudes
To be proactive in service development, liaising closely with the MDT in order to promote clinical excellence
- Skills and apptitudes
Ability to manage own time & meet deadlines
- Skills and apptitudes
Ability to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
- Skills and apptitudes
Ability to recognise and challenge unacceptable behaviour. To act on this appropriately using effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness and negotiation
- Royal Free shared commitments
Royal Free shared commitments
- Personal qualities and attributes
Effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness & ability to negotiate
- Personal qualities and attributes
Positive attitude to change; self motivating
- Personal qualities and attributes
Motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role
- Personal qualities and attributes
A helpful, positive and flexible attitude
- Personal qualities and attributes
Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately
- Education and professional qualifications
Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
- Education and professional qualifications
Health Professions Council (HPC) registration
- Education and professional qualifications
Additional qualification or BDA accredited courses or equivalent in-house training e.g. PENG clinical update, renal course
- Education and professional qualifications
Experience of working in renal dietetics, IP, Pre Dialysis or Dialysis
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of managing patients with CKD-MBD
- Skills and apptitudes
Evidence of specialist clinical knowledge in chronic kidney disease particularly relating to CKD-MBD and it’s management strategies
- Education and professional qualifications
Membership of special interest group
- Education and professional qualifications
Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development
Job overview
The Royal Free has an exciting opportunity in our Renal Team. We are seeking a Clinical Specialist Renal Dietitian for a 0.5 WTE, 1-year FTC (Maternity Cover) to work in our multi-disciplinary therapy team led by a Clinical Lead Renal Occupational Therapist and Clinical Lead Renal Dietitian, the team is made of dietitians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and therapy assistants - across inpatient and outpatient settings.
Our team supports people living with kidney disease and urological conditions across three wards based at The Royal Free Hospital site, and 5 outpatient centres for low clearance, dialysis and transplantation. The Royal Free is the provider for NCL for urological care (medical and surgical) as well as being the NCL tertiary centre for chronic kidney disease management including renal transplantation. This role is based predominantly in renal outpatients based on Dialysis units across NCL.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated dietitian who demonstrates exceptional understanding of the complexity of a person living with CKD. They would provide specialist nutritional care to our renal patients mostly within the Haemodialysis setting. Proven experience autonomously managing people with complex nutritional diagnoses is essential. Experience supporting the development of junior staff will be highly regarded, as will skills in quality improvement, service evaluation or audit.
Main duties of the job
Summary of detailed job description and main responsibilities outlined below: Clinical responsibilities Responsibility for patients Responsibility for policy and Service Development Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources Responsibility for leading and managing Responsibility for information resources Responsibility for Research and Development For full details please refer to Job Description and Person specification attached.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.
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.
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This advert is for Band 7 Clinical Specialist Renal Dietitian with Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Dietitian role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum plus inclusive of HCAS pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 06 Oct 2026.
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