Are you looking for your first clinical post or a new challenge? We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our dietetic team at Northwick Park Hospital. We are looking for an individual with excellent communication and time management and team working skills to work in our large and dynamic team of Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants.

Northwick Park has a wide variety of specialties including Critical Care, Stroke, Head and Neck Oncology, Gastroenterology, Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for a combination of inpatient wards and out-patient clinics. You will have a varied and interesting clinical caseload with a mixture of medical, respiratory, surgical orthopaedics and care of the elderly wards. Your development will be fully encouraged and supported with regular supervision and training as required. Our band 5 posts include rotations within the specialities of Stroke, Head and Neck oncology ,Diabetes and Paediatrics.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWUH) is one of the integrated NHS Trusts in the country. Our team of more than 8,000 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of approximately one million people providing hospital services to the people of Brent, Harrow and beyond.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

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LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibilities, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Dietetic degree or equivalent
• HCPC registration

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of oral and enteral nutritional support
• Experience of managing a caseload of in and out patients
• CPD
• Teamwork
• Audits/Research
• Ethnic diets
• Accurate records and stats

Desirable

• Home Enteral feeding discharge
• Developing resources

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written and oral communication
• Communication barriers/difficulties
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent organisation
• Presentations
• Time management

Desirable

• Anthropometrics

Personal qualities

Essential

• prioritisation
• initiative
• MDT liasion
• Recognise limitations
• IT skills

Employer details

Employer name

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Northwick Park Hospital

Watford Road

Harrow

HA1 3UJ

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