Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Alderhey Children's Hospital
Town Liverpool
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 17/04/2025 23:59
Community Specialist Paediatric Dietician
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
* Great flexible working opportunities
* Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
The Community Paediatric Dietetic Department at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust invites applications from dietitians with some paediatric experience or an interest in paediatrics. This B6 role can be offered as a B5 to B6 training post depending on experience.
This role will involve working as part of the specialist eating disorder and ARFID service and covering the in-patient Tier 4 children's mental health unit at Alder Hey. This dietetic team sits within the wider Community Paediatric Dietetic service in the Community and Mental Health division at Alder Hey. This role provides the opportunity to work as part of a friendly team, consisting of B7's, B6's and dietetic assistant colleagues where you will have the opportunity to utilise your paediatric dietetic knowledge and skills across a wide range of clinical conditions within a specialist community service.
You will deliver the service predominantly through clinics, group education sessions and inpatient work, where you could encounter a wide range of clinical conditions requiring dietetic intervention. There is also going to be a newly created day case unit for supporting children and young people with eating disorders which the dietetic team will be part of.
We are committed to continuous professional development and support opportunities to facilitate this such as attending relevant courses and receiving product update training.
Main duties of the job
* To provide specialist dietetic services to community patients and their families across Liverpool & Sefton. This includes nutritional assessment, development and implementation of care plans and on-going review of paediatric patients.
* To provide dietetic management for highly complex paediatric patients with clinical supervision from the specialist dietitians.
* To contribute to the development and implementation of evidence based protocols, standards of care and patient education information within identified areas of paediatric sub specialities.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Accept clinical responsibility for the dietetic caseload management of patients and organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities.
* Undertake assessment of nutritional status, nutritional requirements and expected outcome of complex patients taking into account clinical, social and cultural factors.
* Analyse and interpret the complex, multiple components of the medical, nutritional and clinical dietetic assessments and make a judgement from a range of clinical options on how this information contributes to the formulation of a diagnosis and a resultant treatment care plan.
* Plan and implement dietetic intervention based on the result of the nutritional assessment to achieve the expected outcome.
Please see attached job description for full responsibilities.
Person specification
Oral and written communication skills
* Registered Dietitian with HCPC.
* Evidence of post registration experience.
* Evidence of oral and written communication skills in a breadth of clinical settings.
* Degree or post-graduate qualification in Nutrition and Dietetics.
* Demonstrable post registration experience in clinical paediatric dietetics at Band 6 level or in a rotational band 5 role.
* Commencement of validated post-registration training in paediatric dietetics preferably at Masters level.
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at recruitment@alderhey.nhs.uk or call 0151 282 4599.
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Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
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Name Clare Jones Job title Team Lead: Community Dietetics Email address clare.jones@alderhey.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 295 3948 Additional information
Alice Sutton alice.sutton@alderhey.nhs.uk
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