We are recruiting a dietitian with knowledge and experience in a broad range of specialities to join our dietetic department at Whipps Cross Hospital. We are a friendly, innovative and inclusive department and are excited to welcome a new staff-member to this senior role within the team.The patients on AAU have a broad range of complexities and diagnoses making this post an interesting and variable one. The position has a strong element of leadership within the Dietetic and Therapies teams and will be supported by the Clinical Lead Dietitian on site.This is a demanding role in a fast-paced environment. Your organisation and prioritisation skills will be tested daily as you carry a busy clinical caseload whilst also carrying out line management and leadership duties. In return you will be supported by the Clinical Lead Dietitian as well as your peers within therapies and the wider MDT on site.

The postholder will benefit from A range of Senior leadership courses to support staff development In house clinical development opportunities across all of the Barts Health teams A strong culture of site identity, team working and peer supportThe successful candidate should be experienced clinically, have excellent communication and networking skills, be a strong team member with good strategic vision, and have demonstrable good leadership skills.For further information please contact Lidia Sheibani, Clinical Lead Dietitian (Lidia.sheibani@nhs.net )

Main duties of the job

o To be responsible for providing highly specialist nutritional care and counselling to patients on the Acute Assessment and Frail Elderly Units (AAU and FAU) at Whipps Cross Hospital and to provide in reach service when appropriate to the Emergency Department of sameo To support the staff of the AAU and FAU in order to enable early identification and referral of patients who need expert dietetic supporto To support the junior dietitians in providing a service to inpatients at Whipps Cross University Hospital.o To supervise more junior staff on a day to day basis. o To liaise with community colleagues with regards to safe discharge and prevention of admission to hospital where appropriate.o To ensure that research and audit is undertaken on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based. o To act as an expert resource on the nutritional management of inpatients and educate and train dietetic students and other health care professionals within the trusto To be actively involved in the trust's clinical governance programme by taking a leadership role in ensuring continuing professional development, audit, research and service development activities within this specialist area.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HPC registered
• BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification
• Qualification in area of specialisation or evidence of significant experience

Desirable

• Teaching Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience working as a dietitian, including experience within nutritional support (oral and enteral).
• Experience of working within a broad variety of specialisms (to include older people's medicine)
• Understanding of team dynamics
• Experience of QI and/or audit

Desirable

• Experience in parenteral nutrition

Knowledge

Essential

• In depth knowledge to expert level in nutrition in a broad range of specialities
• Understanding of own knowledge and skills and ability to identify learning needs and interests

Other

Essential

• The ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures
• Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner
• Ability to communicate life threatening/ complex medical conditions in a sensitive and easily understandable language
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with people eg. via advocacy/ interpreters
• The ability to be confident
• Self-motivated
• Flexible, adaptable and creative
• Able to set priorities and meet deadlines in spite of repeated interruptions
• Able to reflect and appraise own performance
• Able to deal with distressed clients relatives and staff
• Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant colleagues
• Able to organise complex information
• Able to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with people eg. via advocacy/ interpreters

Skills

Essential

• Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to graduate standard in area of specialty
• Experience of Supervision of junior members of clinical staff
• Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups
• Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care
• Leadership skills
• Accurate anthropometric measurements and skills, eg weights, heights, skinfold callipers to assess patients nutritional status and devise clinical plan
• Ability to provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of older patients
• Regularly undertakes R& D activity, eg. Critical Appraisal
• Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality
• Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to be able to do current job better
• Ability to think strategically in order to inform service development
• Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keep a good record of them

Desirable

• Demonstrate a greater understanding of learning needs and evidence of facilitation skills

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Whipps Cross Hospital

London

E11 1NR

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