Diabetes Specialist Dietitian - On Secondment till 31 / 03 / 2027

A fantastic secondment opportunity is now available for a Dietitian seeking to develop their career in Diabetes. Come and join our busy yet award-winning team and contribute to improving the lives of people living with diabetes. This secondment post runs until the end of March 2027. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to:

• Co-lead our award-winning Diabetes Health Inequalities Project, working to reduce disparities in diabetes care.
• Gain experience across the inpatient diabetes service, community dietetic service, the local council, and voluntary sector organisations to deliver health promotion events and run clinics.
• Provide a comprehensive Nutrition and Dietetic Service within the North Mid community diabetes service--both virtually and in person--including patients in the Enfield community service.
• Co-lead thedevelopment and delivery of education programmes for patients and staff both within and outside the Trust, including structured education programmes.
• Develop diabetes education resources, including materials for carbohydrate counting.
• Work alongside the Clinical Nurse Lead to coordinate, implement, and evaluate the adult diabetes dietetic service.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to colleagues within the Diabetes Service, Therapy Services, other Trust professionals, and regional partner
Main duties of the job To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients under your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management and support junior staff to do likewise. To be responsible for the strategic provision of specialized dietetic service to the Diabetes clinics, peer support groups and structured group programme. To provide expert advice to the team based on interpretation of nutritional status, biochemical and physiological parameters. To assess, treat and provide highly specialist treatment and advice plans to patients, carers and clinicians, regarding the provision of nutritional support based on clinical evidence, as a vital part of the patient treatment plan. To conduct highly complex nutritional assessments and treatments, including the calculation of nutritional requirements, interpretation of medical information, pharmacology, biochemistry, haematology, anthropometry, clinical conditions/s and other physical parameters. This will require analyzing complex, conflicting and contentious information, including ethical dilemmas regarding nutritional support/continuation of nutritional support, ensuring appropriate treatment and monitoring is provided.

The North Middlesex University Hospital, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest. In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children's community services in Enfield. In January 2025 we joined the Royal Free group: it is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities. North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICSs, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone statutory bodies, we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches