This 12-month fixed-term Band 7 post covers maternity leave in the critical care dietetic service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The work centres on parenteral and complex enteral feeding for critically ill patients in ICU and wider acute areas, managing a highly specialist caseload. The role also carries delegated responsibility for speciality training programmes and a remit to lead service development, including support for assistants and apprentices. Fit rests on a dietetics degree and HCPC registration, plus a broad base of Band 6-level clinical experience.
What the job involves
- Take professional and legal accountability for own work and patients in care as an autonomous practitioner
- Provide comprehensive specialist assessment and diagnosis for highly complex presentations
- Deliver evidence-based nutritional care to critically ill patients in ICU and wider acute areas
- Manage own complex caseload, service delivery and teaching commitments, setting priorities
- Plan and organise time, and be accountable for the designated area of work
- Lead development of the specialist clinical area and team, setting objectives and project priorities
- Take delegated responsibility for developing speciality training programmes in the therapy service
- Support education and development of the support workforce, including assistants and apprentices
- Promote research awareness, preparedness and activity in the team
- Contribute to development of the critical care and broader dietetic service
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree (or equivalent) in dietetics
- Evidence of CPD through a portfolio, especially in the clinical area
- Clinical Educators course or equivalent
Registration & licences
- HCPC state registration
Experience
- Significant recent clinical experience in the relevant area, with a broad base at Band 6 or equivalent
- Integral multidisciplinary and inter-agency working, including goal planning, care pathways and outcome measures
- Organising training for therapists, MDT, support workers, students and apprentices
- Service development or change management, and implementing evidence-based practice
- On-call and weekend acute hospital working, if required
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced assessment, treatment and clinical reasoning, applying current evidence
- Knowledge of psychosocial and cultural factors in health and illness behaviours
- Organising, prioritising and delegating, making sound decisions under pressure
- Leading, supervising, mentoring and coaching, with advanced communication skills
Other
- Clinical governance, quality, audit and analysing activity and outcome data
- Accurate, legible patient notes and clear written and oral presentation of information
- Working within Trust policies on data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety; coping with stressful or aggressive situations
Nice to have
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience
- Leadership of a therapy team
- Recent NHS experience
- Clinical research experience
- Planning and managing service improvement
- Relevant postgraduate clinical qualification
- Membership of the professional body or relevant special interest groups
- Management skills or leadership training
What’s offered
- Career development
- Flexible working and wellbeing support
- Staff recognition scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Car lease schemes
- Season ticket loan
- Membership options for onsite leisure facilities
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
