Specialist Dietitian - Stroke and Complex Feeding

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated dietitian looking to progress your career in a supportive, learning environment? We have a full time band 7 acute Stroke and Complex feeding specialist adult dietitian vacancy at the University Lewisham Hospital (UHL), part of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, that could be perfect for you. You would be joining our team of 12 adult dietitians within our diverse department of 60 dietitians, nutrition nurse specialists, speech and language therapists, dietitian support workers and team administrators who work across our hospital and community services. We welcome applications from dietitians working at band 6 who want to progress to band 7 or those who are already working as a band 7 and are looking for a new challenge. We will consider candidates with little or no stroke experience; we will offer full support and training to help you develop and flourish in this role. If you're curious and want to explore this opportunity further, we strongly encourage you to get in touch so we can give you more information., The post holder will work alongside our acute adult dietetic team at UHL providing a specialist stoke dietetic service and workclosely with a supportive MDT. In addition, you will be a key member of the complex feeding MDT to jointly assess and support complex patients for enteral tube feeding. Responsibilities include:

• Working on the 2 stoke wards and with the Stoke MDTs
• Dietetic lead for the complex feeding MDT
• To participate in team and departmental meetings as well as CPD
To participate in audit and service development within own clinical area and contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development. To be actively involved in training students from London universities on the 1,2,3 placement programme. To provide supervision/line management to band3/5/6 team members To lead on training in enteral feeding and nutrition support for nursing and medical staff., 1. 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 2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability 3. Improving the experience of staff with disability 4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development 5. Making equalities mainstream.

Our 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