Job SummaryThe Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Woolwich, is offering a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Dietitian to join our Critical Care MDT. We are a friendly department comprising 30 dietitians across the two hospital sites of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. You will be joining our QEH team of Dietitians, Assistants and Admin staff, and will develop close working relationships with the ICU MDT at QEH, and ICU Dietetic colleagues at Lewisham Hospital.
Main duties of the jobThis is an excellent opportunity to expand and develop your knowledge, skills and leadership in this specialist area. Responsibilities will include:
- Providing the dietetic service to Critical Care Unit - a busy 18 bedded unit offering exposure to a wide range of level 2 and 3 patients with complex clinical conditions.
- Daily ward rounds with the consultant-led multidisciplinary team
- Service development including audits, and engaging with research opportunities.
- Attending weekly MDT meetings, and monthly clinical governance meetings.
- Delivering teaching and training programmes for the junior doctors on ICU and nurses on the Critical Care course
Along with your Band 7 colleagues you will be involved in leading on service improvements and the development of policies, guidelines and specialist resources. You will also provide supervision and support to Band 5 and Band 6 dietitians to develop team skills and resilience.
All Team members are supported to participate in audits, service evaluations, and continuous professional development. All Dietetic staff are actively involved in training students from the London universities on the 1, 2, 3 Placement programme.
For further information/questions please contact:
Daniel Baptiste, Deputy Head of Dietetics,
daniel.baptiste@nhs.net
About usOur people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
DetailsDate posted: 15 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year, per annum plus HCAS pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 197-AO8477
Job locations: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Stadium road, London, SE18 4QH, United Kingdom
Job responsibilitiesJob Summary:- To act as an advanced specialist within a critical care, managing own highly specialist caseload
- To provide advanced nutritional and dietetic advice in specialist area to medical, health care professionals and other agencies.
- To assess plan and implement treatment programmes and monitor patients in a variety of settings, offering therapeutic dietary advice and education, to address patients` complex and changing needs.
- To participate in service development within own clinical area and contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development.
- To provide leadership and training within specialist area for other dietetic colleagues
Clinical responsibilities:Act as an independent advanced practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable and take responsibility for all aspects of own highly specialist clinical caseload.
Work independently to undertake nutritional assessments and calculate nutritional requirements of patients with complex conditions using anthropometry.
Communicate evidence based nutritional and dietary advice in an understandable form.
Use highly developed communication and counselling skills such as reflective listening, open questioning, empathy, explanation and reassurance to communicate dietary intervention to patients and carers.
Gain valid consent to treatment and negotiate change with patients by breaking down barriers, using motivational skills, to enable them to achieve dietary targets set.
Devise, monitor and review nutritional care plans against outcome measures taking into account social, psychological, cognitive, behavioural and cultural needs, as well as taking into account the needs of the carer and adjust care plan to facilitate achievement of goals.
Actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.
Ensure safe and timely transfer of patients by liaising with appropriate internal and external agencies.
Provide dietetic cover to other areas during periods of annual leave/sick leave.
Accurately record all assessments and interventions in medical notes, nursing documentation and electronic patient record system in line with Trust policy.
Facilitate discharge of patients with complex needs by liaising with hospital staff, external agencies and multidisciplinary teams about the nutritional management of patients discharged into and their continued diet therapy within the community.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics, or BSc in relevant science subject plus PGDip Dietetics.
- HCPC registration.
- Member of specialist interest group relating to clinical area.
Desirable- Advanced clinical supervisory skills training at or equivalent to master's level
- Accredited BDA course at master's level or equivalent in specialist area.
- Member of the British Dietetic Association.
ExperienceEssential- Experience of dietary management within critical care.
- Significant experience of enteral feeding.
- Specialist post registration clinical experience.
- Experience of pre-registration dietetic student training.
- Competent to convey highly complex information in an understandable way.
- Experience of teaching, training and presenting to groups.
- Demonstrates effective time management skills.
- Experience of working and engaging with people from diverse backgrounds.
Desirable- Experience of PN.
- Experience of change management projects
Knowledge/SkillsEssential- Advanced knowledge of nutrition and dietetics.
- Enteral feeding.
- Competent to use specialist equipment for anthropometric assessments, e.g. calipers.
- IT skills (word-processing, data inputting, dietary analysis) and experience of hospital patient record systems
- Regularly engages in CPD and the appraisal system.
Desirable- Advanced knowledge of the nutritional management of critical care patients
- Parenteral feeding skills
Personal QualitiesEssential- Able to reflect and appraise own performance and that of others.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Able to provide leadership especially within clinical speciality.
- Flexible and adaptable in different situations.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Caring and sensitive to the needs of patients, staff and colleagues.
- Smart, professional appearance.
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer detailsEmployer name: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Stadium road, London, SE18 4QH, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
ContactDeputy Head of Dietetics - QEHDaniel Baptiste
daniel.baptiste@nhs.net
02088365062
