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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
About
Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Specialist Dietitian - Prescribing Support
Closed for applications on: 19-Feb-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 19-Feb-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Mary Sheridan Centre for Health
- Address
- Wooden Spoon House, 5 Dugard Way, London
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE11 4TH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 10 months (Fixed Term until Jan 26)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 p.a. inc HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AFC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Dietetics
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join the South East London (SEL) Dietetic Prescribing Support Service as a Band 6 Prescribing Support Dietitian (PSD).
This opportunity lends itself to individuals looking to widen their skillset, build their CV with more varied and diverse experiences or for those wanting to be actively involved with service development.
The role offers a wide range of benefits including the opportunity for flexible working, hybrid working, professional development opportunities and initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance.
The service has been commissioned by SEL ICS and provides dietetic prescribing support services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley.
The adult PSD team is comprised of a Principal Prescribing Support Dietitian (B8), x2 Senior Specialist PSDs (B7), and x3 Specialist PSDs (B6). These posts are supported by x2 Advanced Dietetic Assistants (B4). The service also provides paediatric prescribing support with 3 x Paediatric PSDs.
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The aim of this service is to improve and standardise care pathways for patients requiring oral nutrition support in SEL. As well as reviewing patients who have been prescribed nutrition supplements, the team work collaboratively alongside Primary Care Networks, acute care dietetic teams and community care homes to ensure that patients are receiving optimal nutritional care along their treatment pathways.
The service provides training and guidance to GPs, pharmacists and other community healthcare teams on the identification and treatment of malnutrition in the community and appropriate use of oral nutrition support prescription products.
The service will improve the quality of nutritional care that patients at risk from malnutrition receive whilst at the same time ensuring local healthcare resources are used effectively and efficiently.
You will need to be a motivated self-starter who can engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders. You will need to be good at analysing data and will be expected to complete reports to regular deadlines as well as having excellent clinical dietetics skills.
Working for our organisation
You will be joining a dietetics department of well over 120 staff working across Guy's, St Thomas’, Evelina Children Hospital and community services. The department has a strong commitment to staff development and you will enjoy the benefits of being part of one of the biggest Nutrition and Dietetics Departments in Europe who as an organisation are at the forefront of healthcare service development and research.
We are a large Academic Health Sciences Centre with King’s College London and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside experienced clinicians and leading researchers in the Trust and at King’s College London.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Role descriptor:
- To be a member of the prescribing dietetic team responsible for providing advice and guidance on use of oral nutrition supplements (ONS) to patients and clinicians within a designated area.
- To be responsible for reviewing patients on prescribed oral nutrition supplements in an outpatient setting and advising GPs and practice pharmacists on optimal prescribing of nutrition supplements.
- To work closely with acute dietetic teams so that patients discharged on oral nutrition supplements are reviewed and have an adequate nutrition care plan at home.
- To use local prescribing systems and GP notes to identify patients being prescribed ONS, review their nutrition care plans and modify these appropriately in conjunction with the GP / practice pharmacist.
- To update GPs and meeting to provide education sessions and discuss patient care plans.
- To provide expert advice to clinicians, patients and carers 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 initiate and participate in regular research and audit in line with departmental and multi-disciplinary team procedures.
- To deliver post hospital discharge clinics for patients recently discharged from hospital
- To provide clinical cover for colleagues within the prescribing support dietetic team - including cover for clinics, audits or presentation delivery
- To support Band 4 dietetic assistants with clinical service and project delivery
- To supervise dietetic students on placements 1, 2 and 3
- To support the wider needs of the dietetic department as required
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad post registration experience within Clinical Dietetics
- Working as part of a team
- Experience in specialist area
Desirable criteria
- Conducting audit and or research
- Experience of training student dietitians
- Experience in Prescribing Support Dietetics
Skills
Essential criteria
- good communication
- organisational skills
- Presentation skills- including talking to large groups
- time management
- Maintain confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Computer Literacy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
- Current state registration (HCPC registered dietitian)
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience
- Experience in Prescribing Support
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ravneet Phalora
- Job title
- Principal Prescribing Support Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07821 809 754
- Additional information
For more information or an informal chat please contact Ravneet Phalora ([email protected]) or Ruth Chalke ([email protected])
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