Critical Care and Nutrition Support Dietitian

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Barts Health for an enthusiastic and highly motivated senior specialist dietitian in critical care and nutrition support. This is a part time position (15 hours per week) and the successful postholder will work alongside another band 7 critical care dietitian, the dietetics team and the wider multidisciplinary team to deliver a dietetic service to the critical care units and in-patient wards at Whipps Cross Hospital.

We are looking forward to welcoming a motivated and dynamic individual to our Nutrition and Dietetic service at Whipps Cross Hospital which comprises of 9 dietitians and 4 dietetic support workers. The post holder will show strong clinical and leadership skills and maintain a strong professional presence within both the dietetic team and the critical care MDT. They will contribute towards the operational management of the dietetics team and leadership of the dietetic service to critical care and actively engage in relevant quality improvement, research and audit projects.

We are committed to work-based education and training to improve clinical skills and there is a robust system in place for staff supervision and CPD.

Enquiries to discuss the position are welcomed. Please contact Lauren Daniels, Deputy Head of Inpatient Therapies via email [email protected]

Main duties of the job

• Responsibility for providing specialist nutritional care to patients on critical care and on in-patient wards at Whipps Cross Hospital

• Deliver advanced nutritional assessment, diagnosis and management of complex patients requiring nutrition support, including enteral and parenteral feeding

• Provide cover for parenteral nutrition ward round as required

• Work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing to clinical decision-making, service development, education and quality improvement within critical care nutrition and acute nutrition support

• Act as an expert resource on the nutritional management of patients during critical illness and deliver education to dietitians, dietetic students and other health care professionals within the trust

• Supervise junior staff and provide support, guidance and teaching in the management of complex patient cases

• Support the clinical lead dietitian in the operational management of the dietetics team including day to day management, non-clinical leadership responsibilities  and service development and quality improvement initiatives

• Actively engage in and support junior staff members with quality improvement initiatives, audit and research

• Be compliant with the professional responsibilities of the role, including trust statutory and mandatory training requirements, HCPC standards of conduct and engagement in clinical supervision and annual appraisal of performance

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.