An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join the Adult Integrated Care Dietetic team as a Band 6 Specialist Dietitian. The team work across community settings in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark including intermediate care settings, care homes, domiciliary care and in general practices.
We are a friendly team, who are proud and passionate about the work we do for our community dwelling patients. We have a dynamic and flexible approach to work. The role offers a wide range of benefits including the opportunity for flexible working, hybrid working, professional development opportunities and initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance.
This opportunity lends itself to individuals looking to widen their skillset, gain diverse experiences or for those wanting to lead service development. We encourage innovative practice which improves the care we deliver to our patients, and you will have the opportunity to trial innovative ideas. You will also develop skills in leadership and supervision, through leading on student practice education for the community team and providing clinical supervision to band 5 dietitians.
As a member of the team you will provide dietetic care to adult patients who are frail and undernourished. This includes domiciliary and free-living patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition, those with pressure ulcers and patients requiring nutritional support due to illness, long term conditions or social factors. We work closely with members of the health and social care teams, and the voluntary sector to ensure malnourished patients receive the appropriate care and support in the community.
The team visit patients at home, and we also visit care homes, nursing homes, assisted living accommodations and Intermediate Care Centres in Lambeth and Southwark. We provide a number of outpatient community clinics for patients whom are malnourished, prescribed oral nutritional supplements or seek dietetic advice relating to weight reduction, diabetes or other diet related concerns.
You will be working closely with the South East London Prescribing Support Dietetic team and our acute colleagues across Lambeth and Southwark including Guy’s and St Thomas’ acute dietetic teams.
We are focused on improving integrated care and patient pathways, and you will have the opportunity to work with acute and community multi-disciplinary teams to support improved pathways of care including frailty and long term conditions.
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 – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
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 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.We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jasmine Carbon Job title: Principal Community Dietitian - Integrated Care Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 02071882010
Jasmine Carbon
Principle Dietitian
