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Specialist Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery Dietitian
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working days: Monday - Friday)
Job ref
196-LIS8404
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cross-site
Town
London
Salary
£42,471 - £50,364 p.a. inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
30/05/2024

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Specialist Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery Dietitian

Band 6

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Band 6 Specialist Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgical Dietitian post.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our gastrointestinal (GI) surgery dietetic team at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in a full time (1.0WTE) permanent band 6 role.

The successful candidate will be part of the GI surgical team made up of a Band 8A, 3.0 WTE B7, 4.0 WTE Band 6 and 2 WTE band 5 dietitians.  The post holder will support the delivery of a specialist dietetic service to UGI surgery for both in and out-patients.

Main duties of the job

The post will be focused, particularly in the dietetic management of patients with oesophagogastric surgery (malignant and benign). You will need significant knowledge of nutrition support, surgery and/or oncology to deliver an expert dietetic service.

The important role of nutrition is valued and well recognised by the gastroenterology medical and surgical teams.

Working for our organisation

The post holders will be joining a team of over 100 Dietitians working across Guy's, St Thomas’, the Evelina Children's Hospital, and Lambeth, Southwark community services. The department has a strong commitment to research and teaching

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s  biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- To be a member of the dietetic team responsible for the nutrition and
dietetic management of patients who are having or have had Upper
Gastrointestinal (GI) surgery.
- To be responsible for Upper GI Surgery patients’ receiving oral, enteral
and parenteral nutrition support on the St Thomas’ Hospital site as inpatients on the ward as well as in outpatient clinics.
- To provide dietetic support to patients with oesophagogastric cancer
undergoing the surgical treatment pathway and during their longer term
follow up with a focus on addressing the survivorship needs of this
group.
- To work closely with the oesophagogastric cancer MDT to ensure
seamless holistic care and monitoring of patients with
oesophagogastric cancer.
- To manage the setup and monitoring of a caseload of patients
requiring home enteral feeding and liaise appropriately with local
community support teams.
- To support the ongoing monitoring and development of the Upper GI
Surgery Enhanced Recovery Programme.
- To provide expert dietetic advice to the multidisciplinary team through
attendance and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings and
ward rounds.
- To provide expert advice to clinicians, patients and carers regarding
provision of nutritional support for patients based on clinical evidence.
This will involve nutritional assessment, to include the calculation of
nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry,
anthropometry clinical condition and other physical parameters.
- To initiate and participate in regular research and audit in line with
departmental and MDT procedures. 

Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full requirements and responsibilities of the role. 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in nutrition support, surgery and oncology
  • Experience of working as part of a MDT
  • Broad post registration experience within Clinical Dietetics
Desirable criteria
  • Conducting audit and or resaerch
  • Experience of training students

Skills

Essential criteria
  • good communication
  • organisational skills
  • Presentation skills- including talking to large groups
  • time management
  • Maintains Confidentiality

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • BSc (Hons) Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
  • Current State Registration
  • Knowledge of the nutritional implications of GI surgery
  • Sound Clinical knowledge of the nutritional implications of GI surgery
  • Sound knowledge of current issues of dietetics
Desirable criteria
  • Advanced BDA course in nutrional support e.g. PENG course

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Orla Evans
Job title
Principal GI Dietitian
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02071882012
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