Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition and Dietetic
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1798
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary’s Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Dietitian
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Band 6 Specialist Dietitian to join our dynamic and supportive team on a full-time, substantive basis at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The inpatient caseload includes supporting the major trauma centre, as well as providing care across acute wards. You will need strong skills in managing complex enteral tube feeding and working effectively within multidisciplinary teams. This exciting role offers the opportunity to develop your clinical expertise while contributing to service development, line management, and student training.
You will be joining a large, high-profile, and forward-thinking department that is both welcoming and committed to professional growth. We actively support dietetic student placements and prioritise continuing professional development (CPD) for all staff. There are ample opportunities for audit and service improvement, and you will be encouraged and supported to participate in these initiatives.
If you are curious, enjoy a challenge, and thrive in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a quality Nutrition & Dietetic service to both in and outpatients within Specialist Area in accordance with established departmental guidelines.
- To provide specialist Nutrition & Dietetic input into education, training and development programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate medical, nursing and dietetic students in addition to other training requirements.
- To contribute to the development and implementation of evidence based nutritional guidelines and service developments in the specialist area.
- Support the Dietetic Lead in the delivery of an efficient, cost effective and high quality Nutrition & Dietetic Service, demonstrating an awareness of financial constraints of budgets for supplements/ prescription in both in and outpatient settings.
- To be able to use relevant statistical and graphical software for data analysis and presentation for producing ad hoc reports and project work as required.
- To maintain good office procedures for maintaining accurate and up-to-date records, and ensure the recording of statistical data in line with agreed procedures.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Degree and/or postgraduate diploma
- Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
- Eligible for HCPC registration (Dietitian)
- Evidence of on-going CPD
- Supervisory skills training
Desirable criteria
- Post registration validated professional course e.g. PENG
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience of working with complex patients in the acute NHS setting.
- Experience of being involved in audit
- Experience of clinical supervision of students and junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a teaching hospital
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Time management/Organisational skills
- Computer literacy including email, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Basic nutritional assessment techniques
- Use of dietary assessment software
- Professionalism
- Ability to work as a team member and autonomously as a specialist within department guidelines
- Demonstrates an awareness of diversity
- Ability to prioritise a busy workload
Desirable criteria
- Experience of diabetes technology such as insulin pumps and related software
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
- Anita bhattacharyya
- Job title
- Lead Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3312 6450
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