Care of Older People Dietitian
London, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team at a time when there are many improvements being made to nutritional care for our patients.
You will be part of a friendly and supportive dietetic team who work closely with the MDT to ensure we provide excellent care to our patients.
If you have a passion for the elderly, thrive when facing challenges and have the energy and initiative to support and inspire other health care professionals this is the job for you.
Main Duties Of This Role Include
To be the expert source of information relating to nutritional care and the older person, advising and guiding with revision of policy and protocols and be completely up to date with relevant evidence based guidelines in this specific area.
Management of a clinical caseload of older people with a range of clinical conditions and supervision and oversight of dietetic staff supporting the rest of the caseload on care of older people wards.
Active contribution to MDT working relating to nutritional care on the ward, ethical considerations for feeding interventions, best interest meetings.
Working closely with our catering colleagues to support effective food service on the ward and representing the dietetic team at the monthly Inpatient Dining Meeting.
Supporting initiatives to improve patient nutritional care such as Supported Mealtimes and Patient Social Dining.
Supporting student dietitians in their training and providing nutritional education and training to other health care professionals in the Trust.
The Whittington Hospital Dietetic Team has a reputation for being friendly and supportive - we all work closely together to ensure that we deliver excellent patient care.
The adult inpatient team consists of 7 dietitians and a clinical lead. We place high value on being visible in practice and being accessible to our patients and MDTs so you can expect to be working on the wards for a large part of each day.
As a band 7 dietitian however, you will have dedicated time to support supervisees and work on projects.
The Clinical Nutrition department as a whole includes Nutrition Nursing and we therefore have expert nursing resource available at all times, in addition we work closely with our Speech and Language colleagues.
Our department is well recognised within the Trust - we won Team of the Year in last Autumn's AHP Awards. You can expect to be treated with respect and professionalism at all times.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Youngman Job title: Clinical Lead Dietitian Email address: rebecca.youngman@nhs.net Telephone number: 02072885554
Mayuri Baichan
COOP Dietitian
02072885552
You will be part of a friendly and supportive dietetic team who work closely with the MDT to ensure we provide excellent care to our patients.
If you have a passion for the elderly, thrive when facing challenges and have the energy and initiative to support and inspire other health care professionals this is the job for you.
Main Duties Of This Role Include
To be the expert source of information relating to nutritional care and the older person, advising and guiding with revision of policy and protocols and be completely up to date with relevant evidence based guidelines in this specific area.
Management of a clinical caseload of older people with a range of clinical conditions and supervision and oversight of dietetic staff supporting the rest of the caseload on care of older people wards.
Active contribution to MDT working relating to nutritional care on the ward, ethical considerations for feeding interventions, best interest meetings.
Working closely with our catering colleagues to support effective food service on the ward and representing the dietetic team at the monthly Inpatient Dining Meeting.
Supporting initiatives to improve patient nutritional care such as Supported Mealtimes and Patient Social Dining.
Supporting student dietitians in their training and providing nutritional education and training to other health care professionals in the Trust.
The Whittington Hospital Dietetic Team has a reputation for being friendly and supportive - we all work closely together to ensure that we deliver excellent patient care.
The adult inpatient team consists of 7 dietitians and a clinical lead. We place high value on being visible in practice and being accessible to our patients and MDTs so you can expect to be working on the wards for a large part of each day.
As a band 7 dietitian however, you will have dedicated time to support supervisees and work on projects.
The Clinical Nutrition department as a whole includes Nutrition Nursing and we therefore have expert nursing resource available at all times, in addition we work closely with our Speech and Language colleagues.
Our department is well recognised within the Trust - we won Team of the Year in last Autumn's AHP Awards. You can expect to be treated with respect and professionalism at all times.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Youngman Job title: Clinical Lead Dietitian Email address: rebecca.youngman@nhs.net Telephone number: 02072885554
Mayuri Baichan
COOP Dietitian
02072885552
