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Band 7 Highly Specialist Paediatric Dietitian
Band 7
Main area: Nutrition and Dietetics
Grade: Band 7
Contract: 10 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 820-6648776-ASR-B
Site: Gee Business Centre
Town: Birmingham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/12/2024 23:59
Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic, self-motivated and experienced Paediatric Dietitian to provide excellent care and develop new ways of working to our community paediatric caseload. This exciting opportunity has arisen from a team member's successful secondment to NIHR fellowship.
The Paediatric Dietitians have an excellent profile within the Trust. We are consistently shown to make a difference to the clinical outcomes and lives of the children we serve; in addition, we receive excellent feedback from our service users. You will have a clinical role in the following settings: community clinics, home visits, child development centres, and special schools. There are active links with local acute paediatric units, specialist community children’s services, and excellent support from the safeguarding children’s team. This post will provide opportunities for training, research, and project work in a supportive team environment.
This post will work in collaboration with other lead dietitians and the Professional Lead Paediatric Dietitian to further develop clinical outcomes, guidelines, and pathways, as well as supporting our current staff to develop their clinical skills.
Main duties of the job
1. This post has a high degree of autonomy and is responsible for the highly specialist clinical assessment and ongoing dietetic management of children with various clinical conditions within a community setting. Conditions include complex permanent disabilities, multiple pathologies, life-limiting conditions, and challenging behaviours.
2. To provide a high-quality evidence-based service to children with complex disabilities, life-limiting conditions, and challenging behaviours.
3. To provide therapeutic dietetic care to clients in a range of venues across the City including clinics, client’s own homes, special schools, and respite/short breaks.
4. To act as a source of clinical expertise/advice and guidance for clients’ families, carers, and the multi-disciplinary team.
5. To raise nutritional awareness and promote the benefits of Paediatric Dietetic services with respect to children both within and outside of the organisation.
Working for our organisation
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
The department has a comprehensive structure to support Clinical Governance and your personal development via annual appraisals, clinical supervision, and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working, and staff support are given high priority in the Trust. Free parking is also available.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To maintain a complex clinical caseload within highly specialist areas of Paediatric Dietetics. This involves liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients, and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely, and cost-effective nutritional treatment for children receiving specialist nutritional products.
2. To undertake comprehensive highly specialist assessments of patients’ clinical needs in a holistic manner using specialised clinical knowledge and skills and a broad range of nutritional assessment skills, measurements, and techniques. This may include the use of dietary analysis software, anthropometric measurements, often in patients with diverse or complex nutritional and physical health needs.
3. To negotiate and agree dietary or nutritional goals with individual patients and/or their parents and carers, including those with diverse or complex nutritional and physical health needs and end-of-life issues. The post holder will need to use motivational interviewing, counselling, and cognitive behaviour therapy tools as applicable. This may include identifying individual barriers to change and helping clients and carers to manage them.
4. To aim to meet these goals using appropriate nutritional interventions including enteral feeding, oral nutritional supplements, or specialised formulae. To reassess nutritional requirements and change clinical interventions as appropriate in line with current evidence-based practice.
5. To plan and deliver individualised nutritional care plans based on comprehensive highly specialist assessments of needs and knowledge of evidence-based practice, modifying the care plans as required.
6. To respond appropriately to frequent requests for highly specialist Dietetic support which include those for children with complex physical health needs with complex clinical and social situations which require detailed analysis and decision-making.
7. To regularly communicate highly complex and sensitive information to families, carers, and staff regarding diagnosis and prognosis and future expectations, gaining cooperation and trust in the ongoing management of the child.
8. Independently manage a caseload that includes children with complex eating and drinking difficulties, dealing with issues of mortality and ethical dilemmas.
9. Diagnosing nutritionally related disorders and being alert to symptoms and signs of wider systemic disease.
10. Directing referrals for specialist medical opinion where appropriate.
11. Being alert to safeguarding concerns and consent issues for children.
12. To be prepared to deal sensitively with service users, families, and carers living with difficult diagnoses and life-limiting conditions.
13. To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records in line with the HCPC Code of Conduct and Trust Policies.
14. To provide dietetic leadership and expert opinion across the Trust in the area of common childhood nutrition disorders.
15. Provide support for children, their families, and acute hospital Dietetic staff through the process of enteral tube fed placements.
16. To have an understanding of alternative communication systems that may be used by service users including sign language, gestures, Makaton, and other non-verbal methods that will assist in optimising a child’s health.
17. To disseminate appropriate evidence/research findings and whenever possible ensure the integration of research/evidence-based practice in the Department.
18. To support Service delivery and offer clinical leadership within the Birmingham Community Nutrition team and Children’s Services to facilitate effective patient care, service development, and multidisciplinary working.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
* Registered Dietitian with current HCPC registration
* Post graduate training or equivalent relevant experience within Paediatric Dietetics
* Evidence of CPD
Experience
* Extensive experience of working within paediatric dietetics
* Experience of developing, implementing, and evaluating projects and audits.
* Experience of supervising staff.
* Experience of student training
* Experience of clinical dietetics at senior grade
* Experience of dietetic leadership
* Experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and practical application of current evidence-based practice
* Excellent presentation skills
* Ability to reflect and appraise own performance.
* Ability to produce legible, written communication including reports
* Ability to work in a variety of settings and environments.
Other
* Ability to travel to different locations within the city
Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme
BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long-term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC is an advocate of diversity and strives to mirror the community we serve as much as possible.
We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC is striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Benefits of working for us:
* Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
* Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
* Discounts for local and national retailers
* Dedicated well-being services for all employees
* Flexible working where possible
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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