Job summary
- Main area
- Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12month FTC)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-7748247
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free Hospital
- Town
- Hampstead
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 Per annum inclusive of HCAS - pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Critical Care Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated Dietitian with experience in ICU to cover a period of maternity leave for a role within the Critical Care Therapy Team.
You would be working alongside another band 7 and band 6 critical care dietitian to deliver the dietetic service to our Intensive Care Therapy Unit, including a specialist Liver ICU. This role also involves active participation in the Parenteral Nutrition Team including regular PN ward rounds and representation at the weekly nutrition MDT. Experience of working with complex both enteral and parenteral nutrition patients in an acute setting is therefore essential. The successful post holder will also work alongside our specialist ICU technologists to undertake regular Indirect Calorimetry measurements.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for service development, quality improvement, and the implementation of best practice guidelines within critical care nutrition. The role involves regular teaching opportunities for all members of the MDT including ICU nurses, doctors and therapists. Close multi-disciplinary team working is a vital component of this role, and the successful candidate should thrive when working in a collaborative environment.
This role is also considered to be crucial to the wider dietetic team leadership structure and the post holder should have experience of leadership. This role provides clinical supervision to a rotational Band 6 dietitian as well as line management responsibility for Band 6 therapist.
The department undertakes regular training of dietetic students. We pride ourselves in being a forward-thinking department with a strong commitment to continuing professional development.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- Physically fit and able to comply with trust manual handling guidelines
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
- • Health Care Professions Council (HPC) registration
- • Additional qualification or BDA accredited courses or equivalent in-house training
Desirable criteria
- • Membership of the BDA Critical Care specialist group
- • Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Broad range of clinical experience, across a variety of clinical areas including critical care.
- • Experience of working with complex nutrition support patients in the intensive care unit
- • Significant experience of artificial nutrition support including parenteral nutrition
- • Lectures/presentations to groups/teaching other Healthcare Professionals and patients
- • Student training/ supervisory skills
- • Leadership in an audit or project, and knowledge of clinical standards in the management of nutrition
- • Active contribution to service improvement
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge or experience of carrying out indirect calorimetry
- • Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Able to work autonomously and use initiative
- • Ability to carry out nutritional assessments, such as anthropometry, subjective global assessment, bioelectrical impedance analysis, estimation of dietary intake of macro/micronutrients
- • Good time management and organisational skills
- • Effective clinical reasoning skills & ability to reflect on own practice
- • Appreciation of need for personal accountability for governance issues (to include confidentiality, Health & safety and risk management) and how these affect self and others
- • Effective verbal and written communication skills with a range of patients and healthcare professionals
- • Ability to treat others with compassion, dignity and respect, taking into account diversity considerations
- • Able to manage clinical caseload and prioritise effectively
- • Able to support junior staff to manage and prioritise their clinical caseload
- • Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary, with a willingness to be personally accountable for actions
- • To be proactive in service development, liaising closely with the MDT in order to promote clinical excellence
- • Ability to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
- • Proficient use of PC & working knowledge of Microsoft Office and nutritional analysis
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role
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
- Nicole Rainford
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
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