Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal Service
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1746
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- London
- Town
- Trustwide
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 inclusive pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Specialist Dietitian (Paediatrics)
Band 7
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
This 0.4wte (15 hours per week) position is an exciting opportunity for a Neonatal Dietitian to work on the Neonatal Units at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
This is a job share opportunity, sharing a 1wte post with an established 0.6wte band 7 Specialist Dietitian in Neonates. Working alongside and supported by an experienced Clinical Lead Specialist Dietitian in Neonates, the post holder will contribute to the provision of an effective, safe and highly specialist neonatal dietetic service to Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital (Level 3) and St Mary’s Hospital (Level 2).
The post holder will have knowledge and experience within this specialist area and there will be opportunities to learn and develop skills once in post.
The post holder will contribute to the dietetic provision for the Neonatal Service, which includes inpatient and outpatient clinical work across both of the Trust's Neonatal Units, delivering teaching and carrying out audit/quality improvement. Neonatal Therapy provision, including dietetics, is embedded in Neonatal Service delivery, requiring strengths in collaboration, communication and team working.
Anticipated start date: 01/12/2025
Main duties of the job
- You will work autonomously to provide expert nutritional and dietetic advice to an independent caseload of inpatients.
You will develop individual baby centred treatment plans based on nutritional diagnosis including interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition, growth, medication, family and social history and diet history where appropriate. - You will calculate nutritional requirements and assess nutritional status using anthropometric skills, calculations and clinical observation and advise on the most appropriate and safe method of nutritional support including enteral and parenteral nutrition.
- You will attend and contribute to neonatal ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings advising on the nutritional management of individual babies based on interpretation of the necessary parameters.
- You will work with colleagues to develop and maintain evidence based neonatal nutrition protocols and policies to be implemented at neonatal and Trust level.
- You will participate in and contribute to the Integrated Family Delivered Care (IFDC) project and carry out nutrition education of staff, patients/carers and students, designing, delivering and evaluating training
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
- Degree (or equivalent) in Nutrition and Dietetics
- State registration with the Health Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area
- Clinical Educators course or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Professional Organisation
- Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
- Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Management skills or leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
- Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
- Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices
- Experience of service development/change management
- Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
- Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role)
Desirable criteria
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
- Leadership of a therapy team
- Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
- Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
- Clinical research experience
- Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities
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
- Stephanie Tagani
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3312 1127
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