Band 5 Acute Adult Dietitian

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

Due to a recent promotion within the team, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a full time band 5 Acute Dietitian to join our Epsom acute adult dietetic team on a permanent basis. This is an exciting chance to join our friendly, informal department which provides dietetic services to Epsom Hospital, Surrey and the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our dynamic team. There will be opportunities for cross site working on our St Helier site.
This is an excellent opportunity to gain a range of Dietetic experience in a supportive environment. You may be newly qualified or wish to consolidate your existing experience before moving on to a more specialised role.
The successful candidate will provide a Dietetic service to acute medical and care of the elderly wards alongside gaining some experience in gastroenterology and stroke wards.
We actively encourage personal development and you will have the opportunity to learn from colleagues working in specialist areas. The department currently provides training for placement 1, 2 and 3 students and you will participate in this as part of the team.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Ability to recognise own limitations and access appropriate advice and information
• High level of enthusiasm, motivation and initiative
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

• To provide advice to referred patients and carers, and clinicians. 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 interpret received information concerning medical and social history to ensure advice is given in a person centred and culturally specific way.
• To support the use of a nutrition-screening tool for inpatients to ensure patients are appropriately referred to the dietitian.
• To be responsible for the discharge planning of patients going home on artificial nutritional support.
• To identify patients who will need to be followed up in the community and make appropriate onward dietetic referrals.
• To provide nutrition teaching sessions to other members of the multidisciplinary team and identified patient groups as required.
• To work closely with dietetic team to provide an appropriate service to patients.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.