Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Denmark Hill Town London Salary £46,419 - £55,046 per annum, pro rata inc HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 15/09/2025 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven and dynamic Dietitian to join our team of over 65 Dietetic staff at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking to employ a motivated and experienced dietitian to join our Critical Care Dietetic Team. The post is a permanent contract dedicated to the dietetic support of the Adult Critical Care patients at King’s College Hospital (at the Denmark Hill site). You will be managed by the clinical lead specialist in Critical Care (Band 8a) and Critical Care dietitians (3.0 WTE Band 7) on supporting dietetic services for critically ill patients.

The successful candidate will have an opportunity to develop their clinical skills to provide specialist care for critically ill patients including:

Major Trauma,Neurosurgery,General Surgery, Spinal injuries, Neurology, HPB & Liver, Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Respiratory Medicine, Orthopaedics, Haematology,Renal Medicine,General Medicine,Cystic Fibrosis.

Dietetics within Critical Care is a well-established service within King’s. King’s Critical Care is a world-class centre, one of the biggest in the country with 94 ventilated beds at the DH site. We have a brand new Critical Care Centre with 4 new state of the art Intensive Care Units. King’s Critical Care is a dynamic service with MDT patient care at the heart of its service.

Main duties of the job

This Band 6 0.8WTE Critical Care Dietitian post will be based at the Denmark Hill site.

The Senior Dietitian for Critical Care will be expected to work within a consultant led service and be responsible for the dietetic management of all patients within adult critical care, providing a comprehensive dietetic service to critically ill adult patients. This post will be supported by an 8a Critical Care Clinical Lead Dietitian and three Band 7 Critical Care Dietitians. The post holder will provide expert advice and guidance for other healthcare professionals. This involves attending ward rounds, meetings and to be actively involved with local strategic service planning groups. The Senior Dietitian for Critical Care will develop expertise in the complex management of all critical care patients and liaise with the critical care medical, nursing and MDT teams. The post holder will be actively involved with teaching of doctors, nurses and MDT members of critical care and also actively participate in dietetic and multi-disciplinary research and audit.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reachis our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of work in compliance with the ethical code of practice set out by the Health and Care Professions Council
• Formulate and deliver individual dietetic treatment plans for critically ill patients based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of a wide range of dietetic treatments for critically ill patient
• Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
• Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment regimens as required.
• To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload with the support of more senior staff.
• Work within Trust clinical guidelines and to have good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor quality of practice as appropriate.
• To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with British Dietetic Association (BDA) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of practice.

To understand the role in more detail please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Knowledge

• BSc/ Post graduate diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
• HCPC registered
• Experience of working within the specialist area of Critical Care in the NHS
• Experience of nutrition support, especially Enteral Nutrition within Critical Care
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Membership of an appropriate professional development group e.g. critical care specialist group of the BDA
• Experience in Parenteral Nutrition in the acute setting

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Liesl Wandrag Job title Clinical Lead Dietitian for Critical Care Email address l.wandrag@nhs.net Telephone number 0203 299 4972 Additional information

Alternate contact details: Daisy Bolton (Clinical Lead Dietitian for Liver/HPB & Oncology): daisy.bolton@nhs.net