Critical Care Dietitian - Band 6

The service provides support to adult patients requiring complex nutrition support in a critical care setting and the clinical caseload of the post-holder will include critically unwell surgical, medical and trauma patients.

You will attend MDTs and ward rounds and input directly into the multidisciplinary care of patients, as well as working with the wider MDT to ensure high quality and equitable care for the patients.

You will be responsible for inputting into handovers and consultant-led ward rounds, to offer dietetic advice based on up to date evidence. You will undertake the nutritional assessment of critically ill patients, and devise nutritional plans including advice on oral intake and provision of enteral feeding regimes. You will be responsible for ordering parenteral nutrition as part of the wider multidisciplinary team - experience of parenteral nutrition would therefore be advantageous, however training will be provided for the successful applicant. You will input into the development and maintenance of Trust policies and guidelines and take an active role in training staff and students.

Main duties of the job

The service provides support to adult patients requiring complex nutrition support in a critical care setting and the clinical caseload of the post-holder will include critically unwell surgical, medical and trauma patients. You will attend MDTs and ward rounds and input directly into the multidisciplinary care of patients, as well as working with the wider MDT to ensure high quality and equitable care for the patients.

You will be responsible for inputting into handovers and consultant-led ward rounds, to offer dietetic advice based on up to date evidence. You will undertake the nutritional assessment of critically ill patients, and devise nutritional plans including advice on oral intake and provision of enteral feeding regimes. You will be responsible for ordering parenteral nutrition as part of the wider multidisciplinary team - experience of parenteral nutrition would therefore be advantageous, however training will be provided for the successful applicant. You will input into the development and maintenance of Trust policies and guidelines and take an active role in training staff and students.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).