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Specialist Dietitian for Older Adults
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Full time permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
220-WHT-3949
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£58,133 - £65,261 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/06/2026 23:59
Interview date
25/06/2026

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Care of Older People Dietitian

NHS AfC: Band 7

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team at a time when there are many improvements being made to nutritional care for our patients.

You will be part of a friendly and supportive dietetic team who work closely with the MDT to ensure we provide excellent care to our patients.

If you have a passion for the elderly, thrive when facing challenges and have the energy and initiative to support and inspire other health care professionals this is the job for you.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of this role include:

To be the expert source of information relating to nutritional care and the older person, advising and guiding with revision of policy and protocols and be completely up to date with relevant evidence based guidelines in this specific area.

Management of a clinical caseload of older people with a range of clinical conditions and supervision and oversight of dietetic staff supporting the rest of the caseload on care of older people wards.

Active contribution to MDT working relating to nutritional care on the ward, ethical considerations for feeding interventions, best interest meetings.

Working closely with our catering colleagues to support effective food service on the ward and representing the dietetic team at the monthly Inpatient Dining Meeting.

Supporting initiatives to improve patient nutritional care such as Supported Mealtimes and Patient Social Dining.

Supporting student dietitians in their training and providing nutritional education and training to other health care professionals in the Trust.

Working for our organisation

The Whittington Hospital Dietetic Team has a reputation for being friendly and supportive - we all work closely together to ensure that we deliver excellent patient care.

The adult inpatient team consists of 7 dietitians and a clinical lead.  We place high value on being visible in practice and being accessible to our patients and MDTs so you can expect to be working on the wards for a large part of each day. 

As a band 7 dietitian however, you will have dedicated time to support supervisees and work on projects.

The Clinical Nutrition department as a whole includes Nutrition Nursing and we therefore have expert nursing resource available at all times, in addition we work closely with our Speech and Language colleagues.

Our department is well recognised within the Trust - we won Team of the Year in last Autumn's AHP Awards. You can expect to be treated with respect and professionalism at all times.

 

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main responsibilities of the role:

To work as a member of the Dietetic department, as the expert resource for the nutritional management of older adult patients in hospital, providing highly specialist advice, education and support to patients, carers and other health care professionals.

 The role includes responsibility for a clinical caseload of older patients with a wide range of clinical conditions. You will be required to support patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team, leading nutritional care on the wards, providing nutritional education and supporting the team and individual patients in complex decision making related to feeding. The role includes supervision of dietitians working on the older people wards to ensure a consistent high standard of nutritional care is provided across all three COOP wards. You will be expected to demonstrate an innovative approach and a commitment to service improvement by leading on nutritional audits, development activities and training.

The role also leads on the day-to-day management of catering issues for all patients within the hospital. You will liaise directly with our catering colleagues to ensure additional nutritional support measures are provided as required for vulnerable patients.

Please see attached job description for more detail.

 

 

 

 

Person specification

Professional Qualification and Experience

Essential criteria
  • HCPC Registration in place
  • Experience of working with older adults
  • Experience of providing enteral nutrition plans
  • Experience of supervision of band 5 or band 6 dietitians
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with older adults in the acute setting
  • Member of the British Dietetic Association Specialist Group for Older People

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing and communicating patients dietetic plan at the end of life

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated knowledge of key nutritional guidance for older adults
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of contributing to guidelines or policies for nutritional care of older adults

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerDisability confident committed

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rebecca Youngman
Job title
Clinical Lead Dietitian
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02072885554
Additional information

Mayuri Baichan

COOP Dietitian

02072885552

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