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DIETITIAN
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent: WEEKEND WORKING AS PART OF DEPARTMENT ROTA
Hours
Full time - WEEKEND WORKING AS PART OF DEPARTMENT ROTA
Job ref
391-NMUH-7087290
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
ROYAL FREE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SITE
Town
LONDON
Salary
£51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum Inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Advanced Practitioner: Highly Specialist Dietitian

NHS AfC: Band 7

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

To take the lead role and responsibility to provide a Service to the critical care services including the Trust Nutrition team. If appropriately trained and competent to practice, to take on the extended role of non-medical prescribing in the critical care and nutrition team inpatient services within own scope of practice. To  evaluate the critical care and nutrition team dietetic service. This includes developing and updating policies and procedures. To provide expert opinion, advice and guidance to colleagues . To participate and contribute to the Nutrition Team and provide cover for other specialist services areas as and when required. To take the lead role for the development and provision of education programmes for patients and staff within and out-with the Trust, and to develop critical care education resources. To take the lead for producing, implementing, and updating critical care policies and procedures. To lead on and regularly participate in research and audit within critical care and the wider Dietetic Service. To participate in seven-day service on a Rota basis. To undertake student training. To ensure close liaison between acute and community teams. 

Main duties of the job

To cover Critical Care Unit (CCU), High Dependency Unit (HDU), and the Trust Nutrition Team, including other general wards requiring Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN), and to other areas as and when required in response to service needs.

To lead the Nutrition Team for the dietetic care of parenterally fed patients. 

To utilise highly developed communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural patients 

To advise and liaise with the catering staff concerning the specialist dietary needs 

To supervise junior staff when required.

 

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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To cover Critical Care Unit (CCU), High Dependency Unit (HDU), and the Trust Nutrition Team, including other general wards requiring Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN), and to other areas as and when required in response to service needs.

To lead the Nutrition Team for the dietetic care of parenterally fed patients. 

To utilise highly developed communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural patients 

To advise and liaise with the catering staff concerning the specialist dietary needs 

To supervise junior staff when required.

 

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • BSc in Dietetics 4 year degree course or equivalent
  • State Registered Dietitian with HPC
  • Degree

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Up to date clinical knowledge in critical care, including types of ventilation, dialysis
  • Knowledge of government strategy on above areas, NICE guidelines
  • Knowledge of critical care and general medications, voluntary organisations

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of audit
  • Experience of training student dietitians

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
MANDAKINI PATEL
Job title
HEAD OF NUTRITION & DIETETICS
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07816861658
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