# Senior Diabetes Dietitian

**Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic Senior Diabetes Dietitian (Band 6, 0.9 WTE) to join our Specialist Diabetes Dietetic Team at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop specialist expertise within a supportive multidisciplinary service, with a primary focus on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and antenatal diabetes care.

The role offers a structured development pathway in adult Type 1 diabetes education, including carbohydrate counting, multiple daily injection (MDI) insulin therapy and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).

As your competencies develop, you will be supported towards MDI DAFNE educator training and structured education delivery alongside experienced educators.

You will also develop leadership skills, taking increasing responsibility for GDM dietetic provision and progressing towards the role of Student Training Lead.

We welcome dietitians with experience supporting people living with diabetes who are keen to develop their specialist skills.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver individual consultations, GDM group education and dietetic input to antenatal diabetes clinics.

- Provide evidence-based, culturally appropriate and individualised nutritional care to support glycaemic management.

- Manage a specialist caseload independently within demonstrated competencies, with clinical supervision.

- Progressively develop skills in adult Type 1 diabetes education, including newly diagnosed education, carbohydrate counting, multiple daily injection (MDI) therapy and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).

- Work towards MDI DAFNE educator training and contribute to structured education delivery.

- Develop leadership in GDM dietetic provision and progress towards Student Training Lead responsibilities.

- Support student supervision, multidisciplinary teaching, audit, quality improvement and service development.

**Benefits**

- Clinical supervision, mentorship and opportunities for audit, quality improvement and service development are integral to the role.

**About us**

- The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.

- Our vision is to transform healthcare, with six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients and the working lives of our staff.

**Requirements**

- BSc/ Post graduate diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics

- HCPC registered

- Member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) or other body conferring professional indemnity insurance

- Experience of working in acute environments

- Experience of supporting people living with diabetes

- Evidence of continuing professional development

- Knowledge of nutrition and dietetics within the NHS

- Experience of clinical supervision of students

- Good oral and written communication skills with people from a variety of backgrounds

- Presentation skills and ability to work autonomously with individuals and groups

- Ability to prioritise own workload and support caseload management of junior staff/students

- Ability to work as part of a team, identifying and leading on service change

- Ability to identify and undertake audit/service development under the supervision of senior colleagues

- Basic computer skills

## Skills

### Required
- diabetes care
- antenatal care
- carbohydrate counting
- multiple daily injection (MDI) insulin therapy
- continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
- leadership
- clinical supervision
- multidisciplinary team working
- communication skills
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- motivational interviewing
- CBT
- counselling skills
- experience of multidisciplinary team working

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