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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Dietician
Accepting applications until: 20-Oct-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 20-Oct-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Harefield Hospital
- Town
- Harefield
- Postcode
- UB9 6JH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £44,485 - £52,521 p.a. inc Outer London HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Dietitian
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
A fantastic opportunity has opened for a dynamic and enthusiastic Dietitian to join the multi-professional team working at the Harefield Hospital. The individual will be involved in the care of cardiothoracic, cardiology and transplantation patients. This post would be ideal if you are looking to develop your cardiorespiratory skills working at one of the leading UK centres with a fantastic team of dietitians.
If you are passionate about developing your experience alongside an exceptional multi-disciplinary team then please apply.
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In conjunction with the Therapy Lead, Band 7 Dietitian, and Nutritional Lead, the post holder will be required to manage the relationship with the provider of catering services on the Harefield site.
The clinical focus of the post holder will be primarily the care of cardiothoracic and transplant patients. The post holder will also be expected to support the critical care caseloads as required, and relevant competency training will be offered.
They will have a specialist role in adult nutritional support with site specific responsibility for implementation of national guidelines, in conjunction with the Band 7 Dietitian, Critical care Clinical Lead Dietitian, Nutritional Lead and Professional Lead for dietetics.
The post holder will be responsible for the education and training of dietetic students, junior Dietitians in the team and the post will also include input into the in-house training of other health care professionals, junior and senior medical staff and patients.
The post holder will play a role in the continuous development of the Trust as a member of the Rehabilitation and Therapies Directorate and as a potential member of a range of Trust quality/process improvement project groups.
Working for our organisation
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main tasks and responsibilities
Communication
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- To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the best service for patients
- To give informal and formal talks to staff and patients when requested within hospital, locally and nationally when requested
- To regularly communicate with patients who may be terminally ill, have chronic disease (heart failure, have barriers to understanding (eg CVA, poor cognition, long stay ITU patients) or significant psychological issues
- To gain consent about a range of dietetic treatment options and to agree and inform of expected outcomes with patients and carers
- To communicate with outside agencies e.g. GP’s, Dietitians and other health care professionals about patient care where appropriate
- To assist in Trust level projects as required
- To work together with the Therapy Lead and with the catering contractor to ensure that all requirements, both nationally from the NHS Plan and locally from the Patient and Staff Nutrition Policy are met
Patient/customer care (both direct and indirect)
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- To provide a specialist dietetic service to cardiothoracic, transplantation and critical care patients at the Harefield site, liaising with the Band 7 Dietitian and Nutritional Lead as appropriate
- To provide a specialist dietetic clinical service to outpatients at the Harefield site including Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehab groups
- To work autonomously to provide specialist advice and treatment plans to patients, carers and clinicians. This will involve nutritional diagnosis (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and dietary intake information) the development of treatment plans (frequently including complexities surrounding calculation of nutritional requirements, development of patient centred goals and considering medical, physical, social and psychological needs.) The prescription of dietary treatments and ACBS products for conditions where there may be limited clinical guidelines
- To provide up to date dietary information, either in the form of diet sheets or by participating in special events, such as study days or health promotions/displays
- To ensure that catering services meet current national nutritional recommendations on the Harefield site, in liaison with the Band 7 Dietitian, Nutritional Lead and Therapy Lead
For further information please see full job description.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or Dietetics, or Postgraduate Diploma in dietetics
- State Registration with HCPC
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Student clinical educators course
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of cardiology and nutritional support
- Ability to work unsupervised when required
Desirable criteria
- Experience of training dietetic students
- Experience of research & audit
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant postgraduate experience in the acute setting
- Knowledge of nutritional support in the acute hospital setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a team and as an autonomous practitioner
- Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
- Able to balance competing priorities and meet personal and directorate targets within a fluctuating and demanding workload
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Selina Sethi
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
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