# Specialist Dietitian - Critical Care

**Company**: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Fixed term
**Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Band 7 Critical Care Dietitian, on a full-time, fixed-term contract to cover a maternity leave.

The successful candidate will have advanced clinical knowledge of parenteral nutrition and complex enteral feeding, and will contribute to the ongoing development of both the critical care and broader dietetic service.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician to deepen their expertise in a supportive and progressive environment.

**Main duties of the job**

- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.

- To provide comprehensive and specialist therapy assessment and diagnosis for patients with a range of highly complex presentations.

- To plan and organise time efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time.

- To flexibly manage responsibilities for own complex caseload, service delivery and teaching commitments.

- To support the education and development of the support workforce including assistants and apprentices.

- To take delegated responsibility for the development and implementation of speciality specific training programmes within the therapy service.

- Promote a culture of research awareness, research preparedness and activity in the team.

- To take a lead in the development of the specialist clinical area/team and develop objectives and support prioritisation of projects for the team.

**Benefits**

- Career development

- Flexible working

- Wellbeing

- Staff recognition scheme

- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

**Person Specification**

- Degree (or equivalent) in Dietetics

- State registration with the Health Professions Council

- Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area

- Clinical Educators course or equivalent

- Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area

- Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent

- Advanced knowledge of assessment and treatment approaches for the effective management of relevant conditions

- Advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills

## Skills

### Required
- Advanced clinical knowledge of parenteral nutrition
- Complex enteral feeding
- Autonomous practice
- Clinical governance
- Quality improvement projects
- Student education
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Time management
- Delegation
- Teamwork
- Research awareness
- Service development

### Nice to have
- Membership of the Professional Organisation
- Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
- Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Management skills or leadership training
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
- Leadership of a therapy team
- Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
- Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
- Clinical research experience
- Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities

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