Senior Dietitian - Critical Care & Surgery

Senior Dietitian - Critical Care & Surgery

We are looking for an experienced Registered Dietitian with acute clinical experience in nutrition support to join our team of 30 clinical staff and an excellent support team providing the Dietetics Service to Wolverhampton and Cannock. This vacancy is in our intensive care and surgical team and the successful candidate will be based at New Cross Hospital. Our ICU & Surgical Dietitians are well recognised for their excellent clinical skills and track record in research, audit and service development.

We pride ourselves on excellent staff development, and appropriate training will be provided. We value CPD and staff development to ensure ongoing excellence in practice and staff experience. We are a friendly, supportive and dynamic team and recognised for our excellence in clinical placement provision - providing placements for dietetics learners from UCB, BCU, SHU and Coventry universities.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work with MDT colleagues in surgical and intensive care settings to deliver a high quality dietetics service for patients requiring dietetic intervention and nutrition support. You will also be responsible for undertaking ward rounds with the wider MDT and participating in project work.

Job responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose and treat nutrition related problems for patients undergoing surgery and/or requiring intensive care.


• Devise and monitor enteral & parenteral feeding regimens.


• Work closely with the wider MDT to optimise patient care and outcome.


• Provide training to ICU & surgical colleagues on nutrition screening, management & support.


• Contribute to the training & development of students on clinical placement, apprentice dietitians and junior colleagues.


• Undertake audit and projects to promote service quality and development.

Qualifications & registration

• Clinical Educators Course


• PENG Clinical Update

Experience and learning

• Experience working with acutely ill patients requiring artificial nutrition support within the NHS


• Evidence of post registration development in surgery, ICU, nutrition support


• Proven track record in project work


• Excellent contribution to MDT working


• Experience in formulating parenteral nutrition regimens

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.