Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy in Dietitics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7315880
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bethlem Royal Hospital
- Town
- Beckenham
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/08/2025
Employer heading
Highly Specialised Eating Disorders Dietitian
Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified and experienced dietitian who has specialised in eating disorders and has a passion for patient centred care.
Our adult inpatient Eating Disorders Unit is looking for an enthusiastic person to be part of our well-established service that is forward thinking and research lead.
The post is currently based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, in Beckenham, Kent. However, will be moving to The Maudsley Hospital, in Denmark Hill in the future.
As an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), you will be responsible for the dietetic care of your patients. There is one other Highly Specialised Dietitian working on the unit with whom you will work collaboratively, leading and developing the dietetic service provision for the inpatient unit. You will each carry your own caseload of patients. The service positively focuses on recovery with all patients supporting maximising of their potential.
We can offer you a variety of rewarding challenges, a robust supervision system, continued training and development and the opportunity to work as part of a friendly and supportive MDT within the Eating Disorders Unit and the wider dietetic team in eating disorders and mental health.
You must be a HCPC registered Dietitian. NHS experience is desirable.
We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants who are committed to lifelong learning and contributing to the research evidence base.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the adult in-patient eating disorders multi-disciplinary team (MDT), to:
• Lead the dietetics service for the team, by developing appropriate service standards, care pathways and materials for the dietetics service, and contributing to MDT service development and evaluation.
• Work as an autonomous dietetic practitioner carrying a complex inpatient caseload, using evidence-based and client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in service users who are at high medical risk.
• Liaise with Specialist Eating Disorder dietetic colleagues working in other areas of the eating disorder pathway with SLaM i.e. day and out patient services
• To ensure that there is dietetic advice to support the monitoring of the Trust’s catering contracts and delivery of a positive patient experience at mealtimes.
• Support the service by providing information, education and training for all health professional colleagues as well as service users and carers on nutritional issues relating to eating disorders and mental health.
• Uphold the standards of the MEED guidelines and foster positive working relationships providing specialist advice to colleagues within the acute hospitals to help deliver care to patients with a diagnosed eating disorder
• Identify and lead on clinical research, audit, quality improvement innovations and data collection priorities for the dietetic service provision on the eating disorders inpatient unit.
Working for our organisation
The wider SLaM Dietetic team comprises of 16 Dietitians and one Dietetic Assistant Practitioner. The dietitians have specialised in mental health dietetics and/or eating disorders. We are a welcoming and friendly team, who are supportive of one another and our MDT colleagues. We work collaboratively and innovatively, building upon the evidence base to advance dietetic practice within mental health, striving to always be at the fore front of mental health dietetics and to provide excellence in dietetic care. Our dietetic offices are located at the Bethlem Royal Hospital and Maudsley Hospitals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details regarding both.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered Dietitian
- BSc Degree/ Postgraduate diploma / MSc in Nutrition and Dietetics
- Training/experience in motivation /behaviour change/counselling skills
- Strong evidence of continuing professional development
- Membership of British Dietetic Association (BDA) or other body conferring professional indemnity insurance
Desirable criteria
- Membership of BDA Specialist Mental Health Group / London Eating Disorders Dietitians Group or other relevant specialist interest group(s)
- Completed British Dietetic Association (BDA) course on Eating Disorders
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of both BDA, and HCPC codes and standards and their application in practice and familiar with the principles of clinical governance
- Knowledge of Eating Disorder Services and how they support patient care
- Knowledge of NICE guidance for Eating Disorders
- Knowledge of MEED guidance
- Knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical dietetic practice, minimum of 3 years, including within eating disorders
- Experience working with mental health service users
- Experience in enteral tube feeding, nutrition support and managing patients at high risk of re-feeding syndrome
- Dietetics experience related to food provision and catering
- Experience in training and supervising students
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent skills in counselling, motivation, behaviour change, negotiation and Excellent skills in counselling, motivation, behaviour change, negotiation and
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organisational, planning, problem solving and time management skills , including managing and prioritising a clinical caseload and meeting deadlines
- Ability to use electronic systems for recording clinical information
- Application of nutrition and dietetics in clinical care
Desirable criteria
- Research Skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Moffat
- Job title
- head of Nutrition and Dietetic Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07875967678
- Additional information
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
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