Bank Dietician | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton/Chelsea, SM2 5PT |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7299532/282-BankDietician-June |
Summary
Are you keen to enhance your nutritional support skills within a specialist oncology setting?
Do you want to work with state of the art facilities in a brand new hospital?
Do you enjoy multidisciplinary working?
Then this may be the job for you.
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated dietitian to join our Sutton team. This post will allow you to gain experience in patients with a broad range of cancers and treatments. You will have a varied caseload of both inpatients and outpatient and there will be local induction and in-service training opportunities built in. Ideally you should have experience in nutritional support and have experience of working with cancer patients.
The opportunity to work within one of the top 5 cancer centres in the world and to build on your existing skills and experience. Sutton has easy transport links with it being 25 minutes from Clapham junction. The hospital offers a free shuttle service to and from the station.
Sutton has easy transport links with it being 25 minutes from Clapham junction. The hospital offers a free shuttle service to and from the station.
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including the
management of patients in your care.
2. To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex
presentations/multi pathologies using advanced clinical reasoning skills particularly in oncology. This
may include the use of complex calculations and/or anthropometric/other equipment.
3. Formulate and deliver an individual nutrition and dietetic treatment based on a sound knowledge of
evidence based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and analysis of
biochemical results. To be responsible for providing specialised advice to clients within the oncology
setting including nutritional assessment, dietary counselling, motivational interviewing, negotiating
targets, developing care plans and communicating these with relevant health and other care agencies.
This may be on a one to one basis or to groups, both in an in and out-patient setting.
More details can be found in the job description.
This advert closes on Monday 7 Jul 2025
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