Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
We are excited to offer the fantastic opportunity for a qualified Dietitian to join our friendly and supportive team of Paediatric Dietitians. We would love to hear from you if you have a range of post registration clinical paediatric dietetic experience gained either in an acute or community setting, and have an ambition to work in a specialist tertiary hospital setting.
You will be working alongside a team of friendly, supportive and experienced Paediatric Dietitians and covering our cardiology caseload, supported by a Band 6 Dietitian and Dietetic Assistant. The post is offered as a part time post worked over 3 days, the days can be agreed with the successful candidate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work alongside a Band 6 Dietitian, Dietetic Assistant and the MDT to provide dietetic support to infants and children under the cardiology and cardiac surgical teams, providing high quality and safe care.
You will be an integral member of the MDT, contributing to ward rounds and MDT meetings and attending clinics. You will have the opportunity to develop the service and will provide leadership and supervision to Band 6 Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC Registration as Dietitian
* Completion of Masters level Paediatric Dietetics module(s) or equivalent experience and training gained through on the job training
* Evidence of CPD relevant to paediatric dietetics
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
* Post registration experience of dietetically managing a range of acute clinical inpatient paediatric patients
* Experience of managing a range of complex paediatric outpatients
* Experience of managing Paediatric Cardiology patients
* Experience of providing clinical supervision
* Experience of providing leadership to others
* Experience of Service development and QI work
* Right to work in UK
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
* Highly developed team working
* Able to evidence working in line with Trust values
* Able to analyse clinical, nutritional and biochemical data to inform treatment plan
* Experience of being an autonomous practitioner
* Experience of supporting undergraduate Dietetic student training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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