Job summary
- Main area
- Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-7365981-FZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 per rota per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist CAMHS Dietitian (Aquarius Ward)
NHS AfC: Band 7
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Dietitian to join our team. The postholder will highly provide specialist dietetic input to adolescent inpatient services at Southwest London and St. George’s Mental Health Trust. The successful candidate will manage a caseload of young people, deliver dietetic assessments and therapeutic interventions to the patient group, and will work as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary team.
Candidates should be a Registered Dietitian with experience of working in a mental health setting. Experience working in eating disorders/disordered eating with adolescents is desirable.
South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a highly specialist dietetic service to adolescent inpatients receiving treatment at Springfield hospital.
- To act as a source of expertise on the dietary management of a range of physical and mental health conditions including eating disorders and disordered eating to medical staff, nursing staff, other health professionals, GPs, external agencies such as local community mental health teams and the dietetic department.
- To provide education and training to nursing staff, doctors, dietetic students and other health care professionals, as well as service users, carers and families on nutritional issues relating to mental health.
- To ensure that there is dietetic advice to support the monitoring of the Trust’s catering contracts and delivery of a positive patient experience at mealtimes.
- To work across the dietetic service and provide cover as necessary depending on service needs
Agile and flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a specialist dietetic service to young people admitted to CAMHS inpatient services. This involves working with service users and multidisciplinary team members to identify and address the complex psychological and social factors that affect compliance with dietary treatment, thus enabling long term / permanent lifestyle changes.
- To undertake clinical assessments and appropriate dietetic intervention for service users. This may include formulating individualised management and treatment plans ensuring optimal outcome whilst minimising risk; and complex enteral feeding (PEG and nasogastric feeds).
- To communicate effectively with service users, carers and families. This involves giving dietary advice with multifaceted emotional, physical and psychological problems where acceptance is potentially difficult. This will also occasionally involve working in conditions requiring the ability to react sensitively where service users have a history of physical, sexual and / or mental abuse.
- To work autonomously within the dietetic team with little or no daily supervision
- To run group teaching and menu planning sessions on dietetic issues for service users, carers and families to aid recovery
- To write, implement and monitor guidelines for management of service users admitted to the acute hospitals and advise junior staff responsible for their care
- To promote awareness of the role of the dietitian within the services, negotiating priorities where appropriate.
- To work effectively as a team member of the dietetic service, providing a flexible service, covering as appropriate other dietetic services. This will include complex enteral feeding (PEG and nasogastric feeds) and emergency cover i.e. new unplanned admissions or enteral feeding
- Support the delivery of the Dietetic team strategic priorities and goals, whilst aligning to the Trust strategy and values.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
- • HCPC registration
- • Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Desirable criteria
- • Member of the British Dietetic Association and the Specialist Mental Health Group
- • Counselling skills training
- • Completed BDA course on Eating Disorders
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of and experience of working with mental health service users
- • Experience of working with service users with eating disorders
- • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- • Experience in the development of Dietetic services
- • Dietetics experience related to food provision and catering
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of using Cognitive behavioural techniques
- • Evidence and experience of working with mental health service users
- • Evidence of participation in audit/ research
- • Lived experience of mental health problems
- • Experience of providing clinical supervision for junior dietitians
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
- Niruban Vallinathan
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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