Job summary
A fantastic secondment opportunity is now available for a Dietitian seeking to develop their career in Diabetes. Come and join our busy yet award-winning team and contribute to improving the lives of people living with diabetes. This secondment post runs until the end of March 2027.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to:

• Co-lead our award-winning Diabetes Health Inequalities Project, working to reduce disparities in diabetes care.
• Gain experience across the inpatient diabetes service, community dietetic service, the local council, and voluntary sector organisations to deliver health promotion events and run clinics.
• Provide a comprehensive Nutrition and Dietetic Service within the North Mid community diabetes service--both virtually and in person--including patients in the Enfield community service.
• Co-lead the development and delivery of education programmes for patients and staff both within and outside the Trust, including structured education programmes.
• Develop diabetes education resources, including materials for carbohydrate counting.
• Work alongside the Clinical Nurse Lead to coordinate, implement, and evaluate the adult diabetes dietetic service.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to colleagues within the Diabetes Service, Therapy Services, other Trust professionals, and regional partner

Main duties of the job

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients under your care.
• To ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management and support junior staff to do likewise.
• To be responsible for the strategic provision of specialized dietetic service to the Diabetes clinics, peer support groups and structured group programme.
• To provide expert advice to the team based on interpretation of nutritional status, biochemical and physiological parameters.
• To assess, treat and provide highly specialist treatment and advice plans to patients, carers and clinicians, regarding the provision of nutritional support based on clinical evidence, as a vital part of the patient treatment plan.
• To conduct highly complex nutritional assessments and treatments, including the calculation of nutritional requirements, interpretation of medical information, pharmacology, biochemistry, haematology, anthropometry, clinical conditions/s and other physical parameters. This will require analyzing complex, conflicting and contentious information, including ethical dilemmas regarding nutritional support/continuation of nutritional support, ensuring appropriate treatment and monitoring is provided.
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About us
The North Middlesex University Hospital, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children's community services in Enfield.

In January 2025 we joined the Royal Free group: it is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICSs, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone statutory bodies, we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches

Job responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients under your care.
• To ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management and support junior staff to do likewise.
• To be responsible for the strategic provision of specialized dietetic service to the Diabetes clinics, peer support groups and structured group programme.
• To be able to use computer database for assessment of patients nutritional requirements and dietary assessments. Negotiating skills will be required to consider the appropriate treatment from a range of possible options.
• The appropriate nutritional care plans need to be practical, realistic and evidence based to suit a patients needs.
• To ensure the relevant and appropriate monitoring and follow-up is in place as part of the treatment plan.
• To take the lead in providing expert dietetic advice in making decisions on initiating artificial nutritional support, analyzing the range of options available.
• To offer clinical expert advice to the MDT.
• To liaise with the community teams for specialist products and prescriptions.
• To provide a clinical dietetic service with written information to patients, carers and other health professionals. To develop a comprehensive library of clinical references and specialist product information.
• To initiate and participate in research and audit in the Diabetes areas. Results of findings should be reported within and out-with the Trust.

COMMUNICATION
Ensure that the standards of nursing and care deliver safe, effective and compassionate care to every patient, every time.

Care and compassion: Ensure that any escalation of care concerns or safeguarding escalations are made robustly through the appropriate channel.

See Job Description for full details.

Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential

• BSc in Dietetics 4-year degree course or equivalent
• State Registered Dietitian with HPC
• BDA member

Desirable

• BDA member of one specialist group

Skills and aptitudes
Essential

• Ability to provide specialised treatment packages, plan and provide appropriate monitoring and use initiative for specialist diabetes services
• Ability to analyse complex, conflicting information, and deciding on the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options
• Ability to communicate complex, conflicting, sensitive information.
• Good written and positive and effective verbal communication

Experience
Essential

• Up to date clinical knowledge
• Knowledge of general medications
• Knowledge of government strategy for diabetes
• Experience of managing demand in a busy community setting, demonstrating ability to appropriately prioritise and manage your workload efficiently

Values
Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
• Has a Valid Full UK Driving License

Other requirements
Essential

• Understanding of and commitment to CPD
• Demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).