Job overview

Are you a Dietitian with an interest in moving into a rotational Band 6 position in a busy acute setting? Do you want to expand both your general and specialist skills across multiple inpatient specialities, working as part of multidisciplinary teams? If so, Barts Health is now recruiting a motivated and dynamic individual to join our friendly team of Dietitians at Whipps Cross University Hospital (WCUH), a hospital in the heart of the East London with a hugely diverse population.

The rotations within this post will be:
-    Orthopaedics and Surgery
-    Oncology and Nutrition Support
-    Stroke and Older People’s Medicine

As well as offering applicants the opportunity to build a solid clinical foundation, Whipps Cross dietetic team can offer you development in your management and leadership skills. There will be a well-supported leadership element to the post including line management of junior team members, supervision and student training. There will also be a large remit in staff and service development to compliment the clinical aspects of the position. We are looking to welcome someone with strong clinical and team working skills, who has a positive and resilient outlook to join our friendly team.

Main duties of the job

Whilst this post will be situated at WCUH you will have colleagues at other sites of the Barts Health NHS Trust with whom you will work in collaboration to develop the Barts Health dietetic service. With the breadth of specialities across the hospital sites this post offers excellent support as well as opportunities to learn and develop other clinical skills. Enquiries to discuss the position are welcomed.  Please contact Emily Davison, Specialist Dietitian, via email [email protected] or Telephone: 020 8535 6829

 To function as a Dietitian working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team to provide an effective and specialist dietetic service to patients across a number of specialities and contributing to patient outcomes
To support the dietetic team in developing and  providing a service to the inpatients of Whipps Cross Hospital 
To supervise more junior staff on a day to day basis  
To ensure that research and audit is undertaken on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.