Highly Specialist Cardio-Respiratory Dietitian | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW3 6NP |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7433884/196-LIS9854M |
Summary
This role is the perfect opportunity to develop cardio-respiratory dietetic knowledge and skills in a well-renowned specialist centre. The post holder will be expected to cover critical care, including ECMO patients, cardiothoracic surgery and private patients.
The dietetics team is a small and friendly team, sitting within a larger multi-professional AHP team.
With 10 days of study leave a year and well established research links we actively encourage learning, further education, research opportunities and QI.
The post holder will provide care to adult cardio-respiratory patients in conjunction with another Band 7 Dietician as part of the Adult Heart Therapy Team. This post is primarily for providing a specialist dietetic service to private in- and out-patients, but also includes providing a specialist dietetic service to NHS in and out-patients and adults on critical care, attending relevant clinical meetings and participating in service developments. The post is based primarily at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
The post holder will have opportunities to lecture internally and externally and participate fully in relevant national meetings both verbally and through presentations of posters and abstracts. The post holder will also have an active role in student training.
The post holder will be responsible for their own continuous professional development.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Patient/customer care (both direct and indirect)
o To provide a highly specialist dietetic clinical service to designated private patient adult wards and outpatients referred to the service, in accordance with Trust Policy and Standards.
o To provide a highly specialist dietetic clinical service to adults on critical care with acute respiratory failure and post-cardiothoracic surgery
o Work autonomously to provide specialist expert advice and treatment plans to adult patients, their carers and clinicians. This will involve nutritional diagnosis (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and dietary intake information) the development of treatment plans (frequently including complexities surrounding calculation of nutritional requirements, development of patient centred goals and considering medical, physical, social and psychological needs.) The prescription of dietary treatments and ACBS products for conditions where there maybe limited clinical guidelines. This work often involves complex cases where many factors such as the use of non-invasive ventilation, presence of a secondary diagnosis (diabetes, liver disease, osteoporosis and other gastrointestinal disorders), ECMO and critical care stay which requires expert knowledge and experience.
o To expand and establish the Private and NHS dietetics outpatients service bythe development of an innovative online outpatient follow up nutrition service for overseas inpatients that are repatriated with a gastric feeding tube or in need of further nutritional support
Policy development
o To be involved with the development and implementation of Dietetic and Trust policy and protocols related to adult respiratory and critical care services.
o To be familiar with and implement where appropriate Trust, Directorate Policy and Standards and involved in their regular review writing policy where appropriate at department and Trust level.
Service development
o To undertake specific research and audit projects as related to clinical specialism
o To participate in other research and audit projects as appropriate
o To work in conjunction with the Therapy Lead, Clinical Specialist and Nutrition Lead to help to develop dietetic services
o To participate in Trust-wide multidisciplinary policy groups acting on behalf of the Rehabilitation and Therapies Directorate.
o To participate in national dietetic interest groups developing standards and guidance in the dietetic care of adult respiratory patients
o To work with the Therapy Lead, Clinical Specialist and Nutrition Lead to develop the service to outpatients.
People management
o To receive regular appraisals and have an individual developmental plan, to help achieve personal and team objectives.
o To carry out the annual appraisal and clinical supervision of Band 6 team members, and ensure that they have an annual Personal Development Plan and a record of CPD activity.
o To be involved with recruitment and in issues of work performance within the team.
o To supervise and teach student dietitians, both those undertaking their clinical placement and those involved in projects as part of their Honours degree, working with student training lead to devise training programmes.
o To abide by the Trust’s core behaviours for staff and all other Trust policies including standing financial instructions, research governance, clinical governance, patient and public involvement, codes and practices, and health and safety policies
Communication
o To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the best service for patients.
o To give informal and formal talks to staff, patients and students when requested within hospital, locally and nationally when requested.
o To lecture internally and externally and participate at national or international meetings both verbally and through the presentation of posters and abstracts. The post-holder should ensure feedback to department and service team meetings.
o Regularly communicate with patients who may be terminally ill, have chronic disease (heart failure) or have barriers to understanding (eg CVA, poor cognition, long stay ITU patients)
o To gain consent about a range of dietetic treatment options and to agree and inform of expected outcomes
o Communicate with outside agencies e.g. GP’s about patient care where appropriate.
Resource management
o Responsible for the safe use of dietetic or nutrition related equipment by patients under their care (e.g. feeding pumps).
o Responsible for safe storage and appropriate usage of any consumables used in specified research studies.
o Work in conjunction with the Lead Dietitians and Director of Rehabilitation and Therapies in developing a strategic direction for the department in line with Trust strategic aims and objectives through Directorate business planning.
Information management
o To be familiar with and able to operate all necessary computer programmeseg Microsoft office, dietary analysis packages and dietetic specific software.
o To record own dietetic activity, accessing patient information though IT systems.
o Responsible for maintaining accurate treatment notes for each patient as per Health and Care Profession Council standards.
Professional
o To be responsible for maintaining records demonstrating engagement in Continuing Professional Development (CPD), according to any guidelines laid down by the British Dietetic Association.
o To demonstrate annually current State Registration by the Health and Care Professions Council and abide by their Standards of Proficiency and their Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics.
o To keep up to date by attending relevant study day’s, conferences, BDA Branch meetings and Special Interest Group meetings and reading relevant books and journals
o To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their work.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Sep 2025