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Job overview

Are you looking to develop your skills and enjoy a varied role within a well-established dietetic team?�� We have a new additional part time post r who will lead, plan and deliver the clinical dietetic service for the critical care unit at Ealing Hospital. We are looking for a dietitian with experience working in artificial nutrition support in critical care. This post is part of a wider dietetic team at Northwick Park and Central Middlesex across Northwest London University Health NHS

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��You will have a varied and interesting caseload both critical care and surgical/ medical wards. You will actively participate in developing the service both clinically and strategically and participate in peer review. Post holder will���� carry out regular clinical audit in this specialist area.

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We are looking for a forward-thinking dietitian who can demonstrate good communication, organisation, and leadership skills to work within a small friendly, pro-active department. They will also need to be a good communicator with excellent organisational and time management skills and an ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team.

We are committed to continuous professional education and training to improve clinical skills and there is a robust system in place for staff supervision and CPD.

If you have the skills outlined above and want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop services whilst being valued and supported, then apply today.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for providing highly specialist nutritional care to complex patients on the Intensive Care Unit ��and other wards at Ealing Hospital.

To��both��provide a service to and support more junior team members in the support of patients with complex nutrition support needs on other wards of the hospital.

To supervise more junior staff on a day-to-day basis.��

To ensure that research and audit is undertaken on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based.������������������

To act as an expert resource on the nutritional management of patients during critical illness and educate and train dietetic students and other health care professionals within the trust

To be actively involved in the trusts clinical governance programme by taking�� a leadership role in ensuring continuing professional development, audit, research and service development activities within this specialist area.

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre. ��

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.