Senior Dietitian - Stroke

Main area Dietetics Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday) Job
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Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Town London Salary £47,951 - £56,863 per annum, including high cost allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 27/08/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c £2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

We are seeking to employ a self-motivated dietitian to join our team of neurosciences dietitians at the Denmark Hill site of King’s College Hospital, working primarily with stroke inpatients. This is an opportunity for a dietitian wishing to further develop their skills in nutrition support and work closely within a multidisciplinary team. This post is a permanent position.

As part of the neurosciences dietetics team, you will be responsible for delivering the dietetic input to the stroke inpatient service. Strong skills in inpatient nutrition support are required with experience of managing complex patients as part of an effective MDT. There will be an opportunity to also provide cover to neurosurgical and neurology patients as required.

This role sits within the wider adult acute dietetic team at King's. The post holder will be expected to assist in planning the strategic development of the service and in supporting junior dietitians, including line management of up to one Band 5 dietitian.

One day per week, this post will support the HIV team based at the Caldecot Centre, providing dietetic support in an outpatient clinic setting.

You will play an integral role in the large, supportive dietetic team at King’s College Hospital. Our dietetics department expects all staff to be involved in the teaching of other healthcare professionals, in line with our mission to provide excellence in clinical care, research and teaching in King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.

We also undertake student training and you would play an active role in student supervision.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

• Formulate and deliver individual dietetic treatment plans for patients based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning…