# Specialist Dietitian: Major Trauma > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-dietitian-major-trauma/48ecd401-ca97-48d5-9718-65bd7902ca85 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-dietitian-major-trauma/48ecd401-ca97-48d5-9718-65bd7902ca85.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Dietitian - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive pro rota - **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed term/ Secondment until 30/07/2027) - **Employment type:** Part time - 21 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-11-02T12:20:34.296Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Nutrition_Dietetics/Nutrition_Dietetics-v8327824 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8327824?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Band 7 Dietitian, on a part-time, six-month fixed-term contract. This role offers the opportunity to manage a complex, highly specialist caseload within the acute setting, delivering high-quality, evidence-based nutritional care across acute areas. The successful candidate should have advanced clinical knowledge of parenteral nutrition and complex enteral feeding, working experience providing nutrition support in the intensive care setting, and will contribute to the ongoing development of both the major trauma and broader dietetic service. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician to deepen their expertise in a supportive and progressive environment. You will be joining a well-established, forward-thinking dietetics department that values continuous professional development and collaborative working. The role provides access to a range of opportunities including structured involvement in clinical governance, student education, and quality improvement projects. If you are a knowledgeable and driven clinician who thrives in a busy multidisciplinary setting and is committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred nutritional care, we encourage your application. Given the fixed term duration of this role, sponsorship support will not be available. ### Main duties of the job - To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. - To provide comprehensive and specialist therapy assessment and diagnosis for patients with a range of highly complex presentations, by utilising advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based knowledge, investigative and analytical skills and specialist assessment techniques. - To plan and organise time efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time. To be accountable for the designated area of work. - To flexibly manage responsibilities for own complex caseload, service delivery and teaching commitments. To decide priorities for own work, balancing other patient related and professional demands and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the teams as a whole. - To support the education and development of the support workforce including assistants and apprentices. - To take delegated responsibility for the development and implementation of speciality specific training programmes within the therapy service. - Promote a culture of research awareness, research preparedness and activity in the team - To take a lead in the development of the specialist clinical area/team and develop objectives and support prioritisation of projects for the team. ### 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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area - Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience or equivalent - Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working - Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures - Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices - Experience of service development/change management - Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality - Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role) **Desirable** - Previous equivalent experience in relevant post - Leadership of a therapy team - Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment - Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care - Clinical research experience - Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Degree (or equivalent) in Dietetics - State registration with the Health Professions Council **Desirable** - Membership of the Professional Organisation - Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality - Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification - Management skills or leadership training - Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area - Clinical Educators course or equivalent ### Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities **Essential** - Advanced knowledge of assessment and treatment approaches for the effective management of relevant conditions - Advanced skills in the appropriate application of a range of techniques and approaches to the management of relevant conditions - Advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills - Advanced knowledge of the evidence base of the relevant therapy area - Knowledge of the influence of psychosocial and cultural factors health/illness behaviours - Ability to remain updated with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management - Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively - Able to make sound judgments and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding situations - Understanding of clinical governance and the implications for therapy services including experience of quality issues and audit - Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety and meet differing patient needs - Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships - Ability to lead, motivate and inspire others - Skills in supervision, mentoring and coaching - Ability to analyse activity and outcome data accurately and objectively - Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients or carers - Ability to cope with work pressures and manage time effectively - Ability to seek guidance and assistance when required and to be aware of personal limitations - Advanced communication skills with patients, carers and colleagues - Effective strategies for dealing with stressful interpersonal situations - Able to present information written and orally, in a clear & logical manner **Desirable** - Knowledge of recent NHS developments and their impact on service provision - Advanced computer skills for presentation and data analysis - Negotiation and conflict resolution skills ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 482.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10740320) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [frf - band 7 specialist dietitian major trauma 0.56 fte smh (pdf, 160.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10650393) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.