Are you looking for a dietetic career with excitement and variety?
Do you want to live in an area with great connections to London and Europe?
Do you want to work in a team who will nurture you and support your career aspirations?
Is flexible working that meets work/life balance important to you?
Then this is the role for you! We are looking for an experienced paediatric dietitian to work in our award-winning, innovative and friendly team of 10 paediatric staff. We are the largest community paediatric dietetic team in the South East and we sit within a larger Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Service employing over 50 dietetic staff working in both acute and community settings in the beautiful South Eastern coastal County of Kent.
In 2020, our trust was rated as Outstanding! The report stated, “We found a healthy and authentic culture of valuing staff, openness, fairness and putting the patient at the heart of every policy, strategy and service delivered. Staff consistently told us they felt valued by their leaders and the organisation. Staff shared a great sense of pride in working for the trust.”
We offer flexible working opportunities to achieve the best work/life balance possible and a hybrid of base and home working. Full-time or part-time hours will be considered.
* Complete Nutrition, Sustainability award, 2023
This exciting role will be to support children and their families with a diverse range of conditions both face to face and virtually.
You will lead/co-lead on the direct care of the paediatric enteral feeding caseload encompassing a diverse group of patients with a range of complex conditions and co-morbidities. You will also be involved in the care of patients with more general nutritional concerns such as faltering growth, nutritional deficiencies, allergies, coeliac disease, and restrictive eating.
If successful, you will be fully supported and integrated into the team where your opinions and input will be welcomed and valued and you will have access to clinical supervision and in-house training and other CPD opportunities internally and externally to support your development.
The attached job description and person specification provides further details. We welcome any queries - please feel free to email the recruiting manager: elaine.greenman1@nhs.net
Additional Working Pattern: Full-time preferred, part-time considered, hybrid working; home/Trust base.
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values: compassionate, aspirational, responsive, excellent.
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit us both.
Job Responsibilities:
The job description and person specification give you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles, so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT, we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way, we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
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