Job Summary
Are you looking to join a friendly and supportive dietetics team? Our team comprises of 10.0 WTE Hospital Dietitians and 2.5 WTE community Dietitians.
We are pleased to announce an opportunity has arise in Newham Hospital Barts Health NHS Trust as a Band 5 Dietitian to work in a 6-month rotational post between inpatient, outpatient and community settings. We are looking for a motivated and an enthusiastic dietitian to join our innovative dietetic team. You will have the opportunity to build on your training and gain experience across a number of clinical areas like Diabetes, Gastroenterology, Respiratory, Stroke and Neurology and many more in a large multicultural population of Newham Borough of London.
Main duties of the job
- You will take an active role in training dietetics students from London Metropolitan University as well as training non-dietetics staff. We are committed to work based education and training to improve clinical skills and we actively encourage CPD and audit.
- You will also be working closely with multidisciplinary teams and other AHPs such as Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification
- HPC registered
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience in acute and/or community setting
- Experience of working with a team and understanding team dynamics
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- The ability to supervise student dietitians and clinical support workers
- Ability to work effectively single handily with individuals and groups
- Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care
- Ability to undertake audit and change practice in accordance to findings
- Ability to research and interpret literature and apply to own practice to ensure clinical practice is up to date
- Computer Literacy I.e Microsoft word, power point, excel
- Good organisational skills i.e. managing own workload
- Ability to take own initiative and plan own workload and CPD
Desirable
- Ability to demonstrate behaviour change/ motivational interviewing through dietetic consultations
- Leadership skills i.e through development of a project/service development or managing staff
Other
Essential
- Confident i.e. dealing with patients and health professionals, in clinical care and day to day duties.
- Self-motivated i.e. uses own initiative to seek CPD opportunities, recognise needs of the service and areas to develop
- Flexible, adaptable and creative i.e. will work across different hospital sites and adapt to changes within the service
- Able to reflect and appraise own performance
- Confidentiality
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with people from a variety of backgrounds e.g. via advocacy/interpreters
- Ability to present complex information to large groups, i.e presentations to Medical and nursing staff and other health care professionals as well as patients
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 09 March 2025
