Senior Specialist Dietitian Women's Health
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it.Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’.Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS.We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Band 7 Senior Specialist Dietitian in Women's Health
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our gastroenterology team at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. We have a vacancy for a full time (1.0WTE) fixed term (12 months), Band 7 Senior Specialist Dietitian. This exciting new role will provide dietetic input to an "Iron Mum" project, newly funded by the Evelina London Charity 3 days per week (0.6WTE).
In addition, the post holder will work with the gastroenterology dietetic team whom specialise in disorders of gut brain axis/irritable bowel syndrome (DGBI/IBS), pelvic floor dysfunction (PF), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and integrated care transformation.This will include the delivery of a private practice clinic one day per week at Westminster Bridge Consulting Rooms (0.2WTE).
The Gastro dietetic team consists of an 8C Consultant medical gastroenterology Dietitian, a band 8A clinical lead, a band 8A dietitian integrated care lead dietitian, 2 x band 7 dietitians, 2 x band 6 dietitians and a 0.6 WTE band 4 dietetic assistant.
The post will work predominantly at St Thomas' Hospital and Westminster Bridge Consulting Rooms, with some virtual phone and video clinics, and in our local communities of Lambeth and Southwark.
Main duties of the job
Iron Mum- To lead dietetic input to the IRON MUM project - A pilot care bundle of focused interventions for pregnant women with nutritional deficiency anaemia.
- As part of a MDT, develop and deliver an innovative and comprehensive care package consisting of various modalities in addition to routine antenatal care and haematology input. This will include:
o Dedicated clinic led by multidisciplinary team
o Provision of personalised holistic and comprehensive care plan –
o Provision of individually tailored diet plan with a dedicated nutrition input - Reinforcement with culture appropriate information
o Group education classes, community support groups and motivational forums
o Provide regular patient and MDT contact through various media to ensure compliance
o Provision of postnatal visit & evaluation
o Co-production with women throughout
Private Practice- Deliver a private practice clinic once-twice per week. This may include patients requiring general dietary advice, or support with weight management, gastroenterology symptoms and women’s health.
- The post holder will measure outcomes of this new service, aiming to identify and feedback areas for future development.
Please see attached job description and role descriptor for full details.
Working for our organisation
You will working with a friendly, dynamic and forward-thinking team who provide a patient centered approach to care. We strive to deliver and contribute to evidence-based practice by conducting high level research, audit and service evaluation.We support individual personal and professional development and are passionate about health and wellbeing.
The department of Nutrition and Dietetics is made up of an Adult and Paediatric Nutrition workforce of over 100 staff, generating an income of over 10m. This is a highly complex service, delivering highly specialised Dietetics as part of clinical services across the Trust, and into the Community, including providing professional guidance for our catering services and ensuring our compliance with Nutrition Standards for the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached for job description and role descriptor for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria- BSc in Dietetics or equivalent
- Current State Registration
- Specialist training in IBS management i.e. Low FODMAPs
- Required to have attended relevant Post Graduate courses or be working at Masters level
- Sound Clinical knowledge
- Evidence of CPD e.g. advanced diploma in dietetic practice or equivalent short courses
- Specialist experience in gastroenterology and women’s health
- Advanced course in nutritional support e.g. PEN Group course
- Evidence of further postgraduate study in specialist area
- Postgraduate training behaviour change/motivational interviewing
- Member of the BDA
- Member of relevant specialist interest group
- Teaching on degree (or higher level) / professional course
- Previous experience in project management
- Representative on academic / government committee / working party
- Ability to analyse and Interpret statistics
- Previous specialist related publications
Experience
Essential criteria- Substantial clinical experience
- Previous experience at a senior level which must include one years experience in cancer
- Experience of training student dietitians and supervising junior staff
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Previous experience of conducting audit and delivering research
Skills
Essential criteria- Good communication
- Organisational skills
- Presentation skills – evidence of presentations to large groups of patients and staff
- Effective time management
- Change management
- Prioritise own work load and support others to do so
- Able to work under own initiative
- Able to achieve deadlines
- Ability to liaise with professionals at all levels
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service.We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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