• Job Description

  Req#: C9197-25-0475?language=en&page=131&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  BAND 7 SPECIALIST DIETITIAN FOR CRITICAL CARE (12 months Fixed term) - PART TIME

  0.4 WTE, 15hours per week

  The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Woolwich, is offering a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Dietitian to join our Critical Care MDT. We are seeking a Critical Care Specialist Dietitian for a 12 month contract. We are a friendly department comprising 30 dietitians across the two hospital sites of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. You will be joining our QEH team of Dietitians, Assistants and Admin staff, and will develop close working relationships with the ICU MDT at QEH, and ICU Dietetic colleagues at Lewisham Hospital.

  Main duties of the job

  This is an excellent opportunity to expand and develop your knowledge, skills and leadership in this specialist area. Responsibilities will include:

  Providing the dietetic service to Critical Care Unit - a busy 18 bedded unit offering exposure to a wide range of level 2 and 3 patients with complex clinical conditions.

  Daily ward rounds with the consultant-led multidisciplinary team

  Service development including audits, and engaging with research opportunities.

  Attending weekly MDT meetings, and monthly clinical governance meetings.

  Delivering teaching and training programmes for the junior doctors on ICU and nurses on the Critical Care course

  Along with your Band 7 colleagues you will be involved in leading on service improvements and the development of policies, guidelines and specialist resources. You will also provide supervision and support to Band 5 and Band 6 dietitians to develop team skills and resilience.

  All Team members are supported to participate in audits, service evaluations, and continuous professional development. All Dietetic staff are actively involved in training students from the London universities on the 1, 2, 3 Placement programme.

  For further information/questions please contact:

  Daniel Baptiste, Deputy Head of Dietetics,

  daniel.baptiste@nhs.net

  About us

  Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

  1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
  2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
  3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
  4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
  5. Making equalities mainstream

  Details

  Date posted

  15 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum plus HCAS pro rata

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  197-UT6800

  Job locations

  Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich

  Stadium road

  London

  SE18 4QH

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Summary:

  1. To act as an advanced specialist within a critical care, managing own highly specialist caseload

  2. To provide advanced nutritional and dietetic advice in specialist area to medical, health care professionals and other agencies.

  3. To assess plan and implement treatment programmes and monitor patients in a variety of settings, offering therapeutic dietary advice and education, to address patients` complex and changing needs.

  4. To participate in service development within own clinical area and contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development.

  5. To provide leadership and training within specialist area for other dietetic colleagues

  Clinical responsibilities:

  Act as an independent advanced practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable and take responsibility for all aspects of own highly specialist clinical caseload.

  Work independently to undertake nutritional assessments and calculate nutritional requirements of patients with complex conditions using anthropometry.

  Communicate evidence based nutritional and dietary advice in an understandable form.

  Use highly developed communication and counselling skills such as reflective listening, open questioning, empathy, explanation and reassurance to communicate dietary intervention to patients and carers.

  Gain valid consent to treatment and negotiate change with patients by breaking down barriers, using motivational skills, to enable them to achieve dietary targets set.

  Devise, monitor and review nutritional care plans against outcome measures taking into account social, psychological, cognitive, behavioural and cultural needs, as well as taking into account the needs of the carer and adjust care plan to facilitate achievement of goals.

  Actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.

  Ensure safe and timely transfer of patients by liaising with appropriate internal and external agencies.

  Provide dietetic cover to other areas during periods of annual leave/sick leave.

  Accurately record all assessments and interventions in medical notes, nursing documentation and electronic patient record system in line with Trust policy.

  Facilitate discharge of patients with complex needs by liaising with hospital staff, external agencies and multidisciplinary teams about the nutritional management of patients discharged into and their continued diet therapy within the community.

  (See Job Description and Person Specification for full details)

  PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PART-TIME ROLE - 15hrs/Week

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Job Summary:

  1. To act as an advanced specialist within a critical care, managing own highly specialist caseload

  2. To provide advanced nutritional and dietetic advice in specialist area to medical, health care professionals and other agencies.

  3. To assess plan and implement treatment programmes and monitor patients in a variety of settings, offering therapeutic dietary advice and education, to address patients` complex and changing needs.

  4. To participate in service development within own clinical area and contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development.

  5. To provide leadership and training within specialist area for other dietetic colleagues

  Clinical responsibilities:

  Act as an independent advanced practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable and take responsibility for all aspects of own highly specialist clinical caseload.

  Work independently to undertake nutritional assessments and calculate nutritional requirements of patients with complex conditions using anthropometry.

  Communicate evidence based nutritional and dietary advice in an understandable form.

  Use highly developed communication and counselling skills such as reflective listening, open questioning, empathy, explanation and reassurance to communicate dietary intervention to patients and carers.

  Gain valid consent to treatment and negotiate change with patients by breaking down barriers, using motivational skills, to enable them to achieve dietary targets set.

  Devise, monitor and review nutritional care plans against outcome measures taking into account social, psychological, cognitive, behavioural and cultural needs, as well as taking into account the needs of the carer and adjust care plan to facilitate achievement of goals.

  Actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.

  Ensure safe and timely transfer of patients by liaising with appropriate internal and external agencies.

  Provide dietetic cover to other areas during periods of annual leave/sick leave.

  Accurately record all assessments and interventions in medical notes, nursing documentation and electronic patient record system in line with Trust policy.

  Facilitate discharge of patients with complex needs by liaising with hospital staff, external agencies and multidisciplinary teams about the nutritional management of patients discharged into and their continued diet therapy within the community.

  (See Job Description and Person Specification for full details)

  PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PART-TIME ROLE - 15hrs/Week

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • BSc Nutrition & Dietetics, or BSc in relevant science subject plus PGDip Dietetics.

  Applicant criteria

  Essential

  • HCPC registration
  • Experience of working in Critical Care
  • Significant experience of enteral feeding
  • Currently working at Band 6 (or international equivalent) or above
  • Supervisor role experience

  Desirable

  • Experience of teaching, training and presenting to groups
  • Member of specialist interest group relating to clinical area.
  • Experience of PN

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • BSc Nutrition & Dietetics, or BSc in relevant science subject plus PGDip Dietetics.

  Applicant criteria

  Essential

  • HCPC registration
  • Experience of working in Critical Care
  • Significant experience of enteral feeding
  • Currently working at Band 6 (or international equivalent) or above
  • Supervisor role experience

  Desirable

  • Experience of teaching, training and presenting to groups
  • Member of specialist interest group relating to clinical area.
  • Experience of PN

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

  Address

  Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich

  Stadium road

  London

  SE18 4QH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

  Address

  Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich

  Stadium road

  London

  SE18 4QH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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