Job summary
Dietitian - Band 6
Contract : Fixed Term Contract January - November 2025
Full time 37.5 hours per week
We have an opportunity within our team for a dietitian to cover a clinical caseload across the adult inpatient wards and to support where needed outpatient clinic.
The role is ideal for a dietitian with experience in the acute setting. specifically of creating oral and enteral nutrition plans for acutely unwell adult patients. You will also need experience of managing home enterally fed patients, admitted to the hospital and requiring adaptation of their usual feeding regimen and safe discharge home once well.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients on the adult wards, identifying medium and high risk patients and initiating interventions immediately to prevent further deterioration in nutritional status and associated complications.
To act as an expert resource for the management of adult inpatients and support the education and training of dietetic students and other health care professionals within the organisation.
To participate in audit and research activities within the department.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients on a variety of wards, including surgical, medical, gastro amd ad,ossopm wards. identifying medium and high-risk patients and initiating interventions immediately to prevent further deterioration in nutritional status and associated complications.
To be responsible for supporting adult outpatient clinics and group talks for patients.
To support the education and training of dietetic students and other health care professionals within the organisation.
To participate in audit and research activities within the department.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for providing comprehensive nutritional care for patients on a variety of wards, including surgical, medical, gastro amd ad,ossopm wards. identifying medium and high-risk patients and initiating interventions immediately to prevent further deterioration in nutritional status and associated complications.
To be responsible for supporting adult outpatient clinics and group talks for patients.
To support the education and training of dietetic students and other health care professionals within the organisation.
To participate in audit and research activities within the department.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Experience of oral and enteral nutrition support
Desirable
- Experience of managing patients who have home enteral feeding either in or out of hospital
Communication
Essential
- Experience of communicating with members of the MDT
Desirable
- Experience of communicating with colleagues outside of the acute setting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Experience of oral and enteral nutrition support
Desirable
- Experience of managing patients who have home enteral feeding either in or out of hospital
Communication
Essential
- Experience of communicating with members of the MDT
Desirable
- Experience of communicating with colleagues outside of the acute setting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
