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- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Specialist Dietitian - Adult Integrated Care
Accepting applications until: 21-Jul-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 21-Jul-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Mary Sheridan- Wooden Spoon House
- Address
- 5 Dugard Way
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE11 4TH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 p.a. inc HCA
- 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 Adult Integrated Care Dietetic team as a Band 6 Specialist Dietitian. The team work across community settings in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark including intermediate care settings, care homes, domiciliary care and in general practices.
We are a friendly team, who are proud and passionate about the work we do for our community dwelling patients. We have a dynamic and flexible approach to work. 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.
This opportunity lends itself to individuals looking to widen their skillset, gain diverse experiences or for those wanting to lead service development. We encourage innovative practice which improves the care we deliver to our patients, and you will have the opportunity to trial innovative ideas. You will also develop skills in leadership and supervision, through leading on student practice education for the community team and providing clinical supervision to band 5 dietitians.
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As a member of the team you will provide dietetic care to adult patients who are frail and undernourished. This includes domiciliary and free-living patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, those with pressure ulcers and patients requiring nutritional support due to illness, long term conditions or social factors. We work closely with members of the health and social care teams, and the voluntary sector to ensure malnourished patients receive the appropriate care and support in the community.
The team visit patients at home, and we also visit care homes, nursing homes, assisted living accommodations and Intermediate Care Centres in Lambeth and Southwark. We provide a number of outpatient community clinics for patients whom are malnourished, prescribed oral nutritional supplements or seek dietetic advice relating to weight reduction, diabetes or other diet related concerns.
You will be working closely with the South East London Prescribing Support Dietetic team and our acute colleagues across Lambeth and Southwark including Guy’s and St Thomas’ acute dietetic teams.
We are focused on improving integrated care and patient pathways, and you will have the opportunity to work with acute and community multi-disciplinary teams to support improved pathways of care including frailty and long term conditions.
Working for our organisation
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 around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work as a member of the Adult Integrated Care Dietetic Team in community settings across Lambeth and Southwark
- To provide dietetic care to adult patients who are undernourished requiring support with their oral nutritional intake. This includes patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, those with pressure ulcers and patients requiring nutritional support due to illness, long term conditions or social factor
- To communicate and work closely with members of the health and social care teams, general practice teams and the voluntary sector to ensure malnourished patients receive the appropriate care and support in the community
- To visit patients whom are housebound at home, and visit Care Homes or Intermediate Care Centres in Lambeth and Southwark as required.
- To collaborate with other teams providing care and support to patients in these settings including integrated care teams and care home nursing teams
- To provide an outpatient community clinic for patients whom are malnourished, prescribed oral nutritional supplements or seek dietetic advice relating to weight reduction, diabetes or other diet related concerns. To communicate effectively with the GP clinical team and improve referral pathways to the clinic
- To work closely with acute colleagues across Lambeth and Southwark including Guy’s and St Thomas’ acute dietetic teams
- To contribute to improving pathways of patient care including collaborative work with acute and community multi-disciplinary teams to support improved pathways of patient care from hospital to home e.g. frailty and long term conditions
- To contribute to the development of educational resources for patients and healthcare professionals, and deliver training to GPs, community multidisciplinary teams, care home staff and carers on malnutrition screening and nutrition support
- To provide expert dietetic advice to the multidisciplinary team through attendance and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings at community healthcare sites
- To follow local guidelines and evidence based practice when providing dietetic assessments and care plans, including the appropriate prescription of oral nutritional supplements
- To participate in regular research and audit in line with departmental and MDT procedures
- To develop positive partnerships and relationships with local health, social care and voluntary teams across acute and community settings
- To work in line with team standard operating procedures and policies including record keeping and outcome reporting
- To provide clinical supervision to band 5 dietitians and to support the development and provide mentoring for junior staff in the team including band 5 dietitians, advanced dietetic assistants and student dietitians
- To be the lead for student training and practice education in the Adult Integrated Care Dietetic Team
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as part of a MDT
- Broad post registration experience within Clinical Dietetics
Desirable criteria
- Conducting audit and or research
- Experience of training student dietitians
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication
- Organisational skills
- Presentation skills- including talking to large groups
- Time management
- Maintain confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Computer skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
- Current State Registration
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jasmine Carbon
- Job title
- Principal Community Dietitian - Integrated Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071882010
- Additional information
Jasmine Carbon
Principle Dietitian
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