# Principal Dietitian- Chronic Diseases

**Company**: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £66274.00 to £73496.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Nutrition and Dietetics department at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust consists of over 70 dietitians and support staff, providing services across multiple sites including St George's Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital, and other community settings. The department covers a range of specialties including cancer services, renal, neurology, and cardiology.

The Principal Dietitian- Chronic Diseases role involves leading the Bariatrics and Renal Team as part of the Chronic Diseases team at St George's Hospital. You will provide high-quality care to patients with heart failure and other cardiac diagnoses, following evidence-based practice. As an active multidisciplinary team member and educator, you will develop nutrition policies and guidelines, participate in audit and research to improve health outcomes, and develop the role and service.

The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust strategy of Delivering Outstanding Care, Every Time. The trust's strategy is founded on four key priorities: providing strong foundations, delivering excellent local services, closer collaboration, and offering leading specialist healthcare.

The successful candidate will be required to have:

- A BSc/Postgraduate diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics

- Current HCPC registration

- Evidence of continuing professional development

- Postgraduate experience of working in acute and/or community dietetic services at an advanced level

- Experience of undertaking clinical audit/research in the relevant clinical area

- Experience in the clinical supervision of students/junior staff

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

- Excellent IT skills

- Motivation and behavioural change skills

- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Nutrition & Dietetics
- HCPC registration
- Continuing professional development
- Clinical audit/research
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Teaching and education
- Excellent communication skills
- IT skills
- Motivation and behavioural change skills
- Prioritisation skills

### Nice to have
- Postgraduate training in specialty clinical area
- Membership of BDA and relevant specialist group
- Significant clinical experience of working within the chronic disease specialty

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