The Nutrition and Dietetics department consists over 70 dietitians and support staff, providing acute hospital, community and outpatient services for adults and children. Staff work across sites including St George's Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital, St John's Therapy Centre, care homes and other community settings. The department covers a variety of specialties including cancer services, renal, neurology, haematology,paediatrics, cardiology, major trauma, gastroenterology, surgical, diabetes and infectious diseases. The department is committed to training dietetic students and actively participates in the education and training of clinical and non-clinical staff., Tolead the Bariatrics and Renal Team as part of the Chronic Diseases team at St Georges Hospital and be responsible for providing a high-quality care to patients with heart failure & other cardiac diagnoses, following evidence-based practice, being an active multidisciplinary team member and educator, developing nutrition policies and guidelines, and participating in audit and research to improve health outcomes and develop the role and service.
The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust strategy of: Delivering Outstanding Care, Every Time.
Our strategy is founded on four key priorities: providing strong foundations, delivering excellent local services, closer collaboration and offering leading specialist healthcare.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.
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Principal Dietitian- Chronic Diseases in City of Westminster employer: St George's University Hospitals
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