Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St John's Therapy Centre
Town: London
Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 pa inc HCAS (20%)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/01/2025 23:59
Highly Specialist Paediatric Community Dietitian
Band 7
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected.
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced part-time Paediatric Community Dietitian to cover maternity leave on a fixed term contract until August 2025. This is a part-time post (22.5 hours per week) and the hours are flexible. You will work within a team of Paediatric Community Dietitians and also as part of a multi-disciplinary feeding team comprising of a clinical psychologist, occupational therapist, and speech language therapist.
You will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality nutritional care to children within the community setting. Your responsibilities will include MDT feeding clinics and general community clinics, managing a caseload of nutrition support and home enteral feeding patients, running parent education groups, and conducting visits to nurseries and schools. You will work closely with the community paediatric speech therapists, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists. You will be expected to travel around Wandsworth borough using public transport.
Main duties of the job
* Conducting a weekly general community dietetics clinic to assess and advise patients on their nutritional needs.
* Conducting a weekly MDT Feeding clinic and advise patients on their nutritional needs.
* Collaborating with multidisciplinary team members to plan and manage patient care.
* Organizing and running Feeding education workshops and groups for parents.
* Managing a caseload of nutritional support and growth monitoring patients.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* BSc (Honours) postgraduate degree in Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent
* UK HCPC Current Registered
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Postgraduate training in specialty clinical area e.g. BDA Paediatric modules, SOS (Sequential-Oral-Sensory) and behaviour change
* Membership of BDA and relevant specialist group
Experience / Knowledge
* Postgraduate experience of working in acute and/or community paediatric dietetic services at a specialist level including enteral feeding
* Experience in the clinical supervision of students/junior staff
* Experience of multidisciplinary team working
* Experience in teaching and education to patient groups and healthcare professionals in relevant clinical area
* Experience of working in community services.
* Experience of working with children with sensory/behavioural or aversive/restricted feeding patterns
* Experience of working with children with physical, neurological and developmental disabilities
Skills and Abilities
* Good oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
* Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
* Motivation and counselling skills
Knowledge
* Knowledge of dietetics within the NHS
* Knowledge of dietetics within specialist area including evidence of specialist training
* Working at Masters level or equivalent in specialty area
Other
* Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions
* Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
* Membership of British Dietetic Association or other body conferring professional indemnity insurance
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
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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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