Advanced Specialist Critical Care Dietitian

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, dynamic, and motivated practitioner to join our critical care specialist team at Northwick Park Hospital as an Advanced Specialist Critical Care Dietitian.

We are an innovative and forward-thinking team seeking an enthusiastic dietitian to work within a busy teaching hospital, to help shape and deliver critical care dietetic services across our Level 2 and Level 3 ICU beds. The post-holder will manage highly complex nutritional cases, including gastroenterology, intestinal failure and head and neck surgeries, as well as a variety of other medical and surgical caseloads.

This role involves service development, audit, outcome evaluation and interprofessional teaching. As the clinical expert in critical care, you will work closely with ICU consultants, critical care matrons, and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure our services align with GPICS standards, national and international guidelines.

A proactive approach, good time management & communication skills are also key in this busy role.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Leadership: Manage a complex specialist caseload across Level 2/3 Critical Care beds at Northwick Park Hospital, supporting gastroenterology (intestinal failure), vascular, surgical and medical admissions.

Work autonomously to design, implement, and adjust highly specialised enteral feeding regimens and bespoke parenteral nutrition (PN) within the early daily deadlines.

MDT Integration: Represent dietetics on daily ICU board rounds, consultant-led ward rounds, and strategic critical care governance groups.

Audit & Research: Lead quality improvement projects, clinical audits, and research initiatives to benchmark outcomes against BDA and national standards.

Education & Training: Deliver theoretical and clinical bedside training for multidisciplinary ICU staff, acting as a key source of nutritional knowledge for carers and families.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.