Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an enthusiastic candidate to join the team of community dietitians with the paediatric patient base.
This new paediatric post offers the opportunity to work in community paediatric clinics. NHS experience is essential (via training placement, volunteering or employment).
This is a permanent, full time post (37.5 hours) to be worked across Monday to Friday.
An Enhanced DBS with Children's Barred List checks will be obtained during pre-employment checks.
This vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will work to provide dietetic care for community paediatric clinics.
* They will formulate a full range of dietetic treatments to assess and treat a varied caseload.
* The post holder will be given appropriate support and formal training opportunities to develop the paediatric dietetic role to a high standard.
* There will be a varied caseload to include milk allergies, coeliac disease and faltering growth. You will attend clinical settings and home visits when required.
* Community patients will be offered face to face and telephone clinics.
* You will have a work laptop and mobile phone for partial remote working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities Key results from the job
To work as an autonomous practitioner within the Community Dietetic Team specialising in paediatrics whilst delivering remote telephone and face to face clinics across the full range of Dietetic specialties within the community. To manage a defined caseload, working to agreed standards and protocols which reflect evidence based practice and dietetic principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. To collect and assimilate information necessary to undertake nutritional assessment and determine nutritional needs of the patient including referral to other disciplines as appropriate. To develop, monitor and review appropriate care plans, to meet the needs of individuals using complex numerical calculations, interpretation of clinical, biochemical and psychosocial information. Assesses and interprets the medical diagnoses and changes in medical condition of individual patient and understands how this affects nutritional management. To communicate effectively with patients, relatives, care staff, and health care professionals to negotiate and support decision making in relation to therapeutic management and evaluating outcomes. To be able to adapt the communication skills within a variety of settings using various approaches including knowledge of learning theories and barriers to learning. To take part in clinical supervision and seek advice around complex situations from Senior Dietitians within the Nutrition Service. To attend weekly video link dietetic meetings with the wider dietetic team and contribute to dietetic meetings with case studies, new evidence and updates in own area of work. To provide clinical education, advice and support for junior therapy staff and support staff. To provide highly specialist knowledge, skills and advice to clients, and be a source of expertise for therapy staff, other members of the MDT and other agencies. To supervise, educate and assess the performance of therapy students. To contribute to service research and audit activities. To be flexible to meet the needs of the service and propose any service changes within own professional speciality area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
* HCPC registered
* Evidence of relevant CPD
Experience
Essential
* Demonstrable experience in working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and an understanding of team dynamics
* Experience of working within the community
* Experience of service evaluation clinical audit, patient engagement, national guidelines to inform service improvements
* Experience of paediatric patients
* Experience of using outcome measures to evaluate clinical treatments
* NHS experience
Skills
Essential
* Demonstrable skills across range of clinical areas and specifically within relevant clinical area of specialism
* Evidence of the ability to manage complex clinical presentations
* Excellent awareness of the needs of the client groups to be working with and their significant others, and evidence of consideration of these within practice
* Effective organisational skills / time management skills effective prioritisation and caseload management skills.
* Excellent communication / interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to modify communication for different audiences and for different purposes and communicate specialist advice and knowledge effectively
* Evidence of flexibility and ability to adjust plans at short notice or in response to changing clinical / patient or service needs
* Ability to reflect and appraise own work and performance
* Self-motivation ie uses own initiative to seek CPD, recognise needs of the service and areas to develop
* Ability to manage patient / relatives distress and upset
* Good IT skills
Knowledge
Essential
* Awareness of different safeguarding (adult / children) issues
* Good knowledge of and ability to apply, evidence base in relation to dietetic practice and development of practice-specific to role.
* Knowledge of paediatric nutrition
Additional
Essential
* The ability to travel independently across the area.
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