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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Specialist COPD Dietitian
Accepting applications until: 28-May-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 28-May-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £44,806 - £53,134 p.a. inc HCA
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Specialist COPD Dietitian
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 10/06/2025
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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Acute and General Medicine dietetic team at St Thomas' Hospital in the role of Band 6 Specialist COPD Dietitian.
The post holder will have the opportunity to gain experience as a COPD Specialist Dietitian working with inpatients on a specialist respiratory ward and with outpatients in a range of settings such as COPD clinics, group education sessions and pulmonary rehab talks. This role is part of an exciting new dietetic pathway within COPD patient care, offering quality improvement, audit and research opportunities through evaluating our service and collecting outpatient outcome data.
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The post will include covering inpatients on the respiratory ward, outpatient COPD clinics, COPD patient education groups and covering the pulmonary rehab nutrition talk. You will need significant knowledge of dietary management of respiratory patients including nutrition support and enteral nutrition in order to deliver an expert dietetic service.
The important role of nutrition is valued and well recognised by the respiratory and COPD team. The role requires close multi-disciplinary team working to provide excellent patient care including attendance to MDT meetings, patient discussions and nutrition education. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills will be required. The post also includes supporting and supervising junior staff, students and dietetics apprenticeship, providing the opportunity to demonstrate and develop skills in leadership and supervision.
Another important aspect of this role will be to collect outcome data and report on this to continually develop the service and highlight the importance of nutrition and dietetics within COPD services.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The post holders will be joining a team of over 100 Dietitians working across Guy's, St Thomas’, the Evelina Children's Hospital, and Lambeth, Southwark community services. The department has a strong commitment to research and teaching.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please refer to detailed job description, person specification and role descriptor for full information.
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.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge/ Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
- Current State Registration
- Sound clinical knowledge
- Evidence of CPD
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- good communication
- organisational skills
- Presentation skills- including talking to large groups
- time management & prioritisation
- Maintains Confidentiality
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Broad post-grad experience
- Experience in acute general medicine/nutritional support
- Experience of working as part of a MDT
- Conducting audit and or research
Meini prawf dymunol
- Student supervisory skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Hayleigh Kay
- Teitl y swydd
- Senior Specialist COPD Dietitian
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
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