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Job summary

Main area
Dietetics
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-4131
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£47,951 - £56,863 Per annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/08/2026 23:59

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Dietitian - Band 6

Band 6

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Job overview

Dietitian - Band 6 

Full time 37.5 hours per week 

We have an opportunity within our team for a dietitian to cover a clinical caseload across the adult inpatient wards, rotating between the admission, surgical and medical wards.

The role is ideal for a dietitian with experience in the acute setting. specifically of creating oral and enteral nutrition plans for acutely unwell adult patients.  You will also need experience of managing home enterally fed patients, admitted to the hospital and requiring adaptation of their usual feeding regimen and safe discharge home once well.

Once established within the role there will be the opportunity to be trained to cover ITU and Parenteral Nutrition rounds.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients on the adult wards, identifying medium and high risk patients and initiating interventions immediately to prevent further deterioration in nutritional status and associated complications.

To act as an expert resource for the management of adult inpatients and support the education and training of dietetic students and other health care professionals within the organisation.

To participate in audit and research activities within the department.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients on a variety of wards, identifying patients at medium and high-risk of malnutrition and initiating interventions immediately to prevent further deterioration in nutritional status and associated complications.

To be responsible for covering adult outpatient clinics and group talks for patients as required.

To support the education and training of dietetic students and other health care professionals within the organisation, with opportunity to undertake the Student Lead role within the department.

To participate in audit and research activities within the department.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • HCPC Registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of oral and enteral nutrition support
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing patients who have home enteral feeding either in or out of hospital

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Experience of communicating with members of the MDT
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of communicating with colleagues outside of the acute setting

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

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