Team Lead Speech and Language Therapist - Critical Care

Job overview

We are seeking to employ an experienced and highly motivated dietitian to join our team of over 60 Dietetic staff at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a permanent Band 7 role, working jointly across both the Neurosciences and the Critical Care dietetic teams based at our Denmark Hill site.

King's is a leading, world class centre for Neurosurgery. On three days of the week you will provide dietetic input to the Neurosciences High Dependency unit and work alongside our Band 6 Neurosciences Dietitian to cover our Neurosurgical inpatient caseload. Specialist areas include Neuro-oncology, Spinal, Skull base surgery, Neurovascular surgery and Acquired Brain Injury.

Dietetics within Critical Care is currently an expanding field of practice and a well established service within King's. King's Critical Care is a world class centre, the biggest in the country with 85-95 ventilated beds at the DH site. King's Critical Care is a dynamic service with MDT patient care at the heart of its service. On two days of the week you will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills working alongside the team to cover the Critical Care caseload. Specialist areas within Critical Care at King's include Major Trauma, Neurosurgery, Haematology & Oncology, Liver/HPB, GI surgery, Cardiology & Cardiothoracics, Renal medicine.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be line manager for one Band 6 dietitian and you will work with the Clinical Leads to ensure services are evaluated and transformed where required. The successful applicant will have a strong clinical background within the specialist areas in addition to leadership and operational skills. You will have excellent communication skills and extensive experience of working within an MDT.

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.

The department supports flexible working under the King's Flex system.

This role is 0.95WTE across five days of the week. We will also consider applications from individuals wanting to job share or work part time. Should you have any queries before applying or wish to discuss the role further please get in touch with Sally Thomas ([email protected]).

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 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 Bromley.

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.

The trust-wide strategy 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 can take Team King’s to another level.