# Band 5 Rotational Dietitian

**Company**: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £38488.00 to £46852.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is a rotational Band 5 Dietitian role at St George's Hospital, part of a 6-month rotation scheme in various areas including community, cardiothoracic, gastroenterology, neurosciences/neurosurgery, and senior health/acute medicine.

The postholder will provide a dietetic service to various patient groups, following evidence-based practice, and will be an active multidisciplinary team member, educator, and developer of nutrition policy and guidelines.

Main duties of the job:

- Deliver inpatient dietetic care to inpatients at St George's Hospital in areas related to rotation, including oral nutrition support and enteral tube feeding.

- Deliver an outpatient service to patients under consultants at St George's Hospital, including nutrition support, hypercholesterolaemia, weight management, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, IBS, and other conditions.

- Deliver teaching about malnutrition screening and ward-based nutritional interventions to staff as part of induction and ad-hoc on wards.

- Deliver patient talks, including cardiac rehab, pulmonary rehab, and 'healthy bones'.

- Participate in departmental audits and service development.

The successful candidate will join a well-established, supportive dietetic department working alongside experienced dietitians across a range of specialties. The postholder will work within a team of 5 Band 5 Dietitians covering different rotations.

The wider dietetic department consists of over 70 dietitians, who provide clinical inpatient and outpatient services to a variety of specialties. The department is committed to training dietetic students and actively participates in the training programmes of clinical and non-clinical staff.

Benefits:

- Continuous learning and CPD support

- Shadowing of different specialties and student supervision opportunities

Requirements:

- BSc/Postgraduate diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics

- HCPC registered

- Pre-registration placement completion

- Good oral and written communication skills

- Presentation skills and ability to work effectively single-handedly with individuals and groups

- Good organisational skills

- Ability to prioritise own workload

- Ability to work as part of a team and under own initiative

- Computer literacy

- Motivation and counselling skills

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## Skills

### Required
- Nutrition & Dietetics
- HCPC registration
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Organisational skills
- Time management
- Teamwork
- Computer literacy
- Counselling skills

### Nice to have
- Continuing professional development
- Experience of working in acute and/or primary care
- Own transport

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