Job summary
Would you like an opportunity to develop your dietetic career as a Dietitian working in community paediatrics? We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our friendly team of innovative community paediatric dietitians.
The clinical element of this role will involve work clinically in the community paediatric dietetic service offering expert advice and support for children with food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties and obesity including children with autistic spectrum disorder. It will involve seeing children and their families in community clinics and offering video, telephone and email support to patients, GPs and other community health professionals, including collaboration with the public health nutritionist in the 0-19 Childrens community nursing team.
This permanent Band 6 post plays an integral role within the overall Community Dietetic team, supporting delivery of training to students, Band 5 dietitian, Band 4 dietetic assistant and other health care professionals such as the 0 -19 service, alongside service development, sourcing and developing relevant resources.
The role is suitable for those looking to progress their career and gain experience in community dietetics at a senior level. If all of the essential criteria is not met, we may consider making this a development post for the right candidate
Main duties of the job
The role requires you to have good knowledge and practical experience in nutrition and dietetics. You will need to have some knowledge of working with children and families and ideally experience of working in the community, this it is not essential.
This role will involve working closely with the Clinical Service Lead to develop the existing community service to ensure delivery of safe, efficient and effective services.
You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage your own workload under pressure.
We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about their speciality. At Nottingham City care we encourage our staff to develop and will support training opportunities.
About us
We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCareexists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, workingalongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a valuedriven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and socialpurpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of ourcommunities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at theheart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and eachother to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a socialenterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our localcommunities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives.
CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusiveworkforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled,LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they arecurrently under-represented within our organisation.
CityCare is an equal opportunities employer. We are positiveabout employing people with disabilities. If you require your application in adifferent format please contact Human Resources on 0115 8839418. CityCare iscommitted to the protection of vulnerable adults and children.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
To provide a nutrition and dietetic service for infants, children and young people in the local community.
To provide professional dietetic advice and liaise with primary health care teams, community health professionals and other local agencies.
To promote evidence based dietary guidelines in relation to maternal and child health.
To provide education and training for health care professionals, other relevant professions, student dietitians, patients and the general public.
Dimensions
To mentor and train clinical staff and student dietitian.
To be an expert source of nutritional advice in paediatrics for patients, families, nursing and other health professionals.
Support appropriate patients registered with Nottingham City GP Practices, as defined by inclusion criteria for the service.
To offer a specialist resource to health care professionals working in Nottingham City .
Key Responsibilities
1. Clinical
Receiving and interpreting referrals from a variety of health professionals in accordance with the referral criteria.
Undertaking dietetic clinics in a variety of primary care and community settings.
Providing telephone consultations to parents and children as required.
Communicating relevant dietary and lifestyle advice effectively, in an understandable form supported by appropriate literature/ diet sheets.
Utilising counselling, motivational and negotiating skills to facilitate behaviour change.
Communicating therapeutic dietary advice and treatment recommendations to a variety of health professionals using a combination of verbal and written reports.
Maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records.
Managing own clinical caseload unsupervised.
Recording patient notes using a paperless system (SystmOne) and undertaking additional data collection use of other packages to collect patient data statistics.
Use of dietary analysis package to analyse patient food diaries - DietPlan.
Contributing to regular paediatric team clinical supervision sessions.
2. Education and Training
Empowering front line health professionals to give dietary advice to their patients.
Participating in the delivery of evidence-based training on maternal, infant and childhood nutrition, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials and evaluation.
Training and assessment of dietetic students during their community dietetic placement.
Participating in the training programmes of other health professionals and students shadowing opportunities, tutorials, lectures, workshops and seminars.
Responding to ad-hoc requests from professionals or patient support groups for dietary education sessions and displays on a variety of topics.
3. Professional Advice and Liaison
Working with primary health care teams and other professional groups to ensure consistent and appropriate nutrition and dietetic advice is available throughout the community.
Promoting evidence-based dietary guidelines for healthy eating and therapeutic diets.
Responding to requests for dietetic input to specific health events or to individual groups requiring information.
Acting as a source of unbiased, up-to-date information on nutrition to health professionals and other agencies.
4. Competence to Practice
Meeting the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and maintaining professional registration.
Working within the Health and Care Professions Council, British Dietetic Association and local codes of conduct.
Participating in professional or nutrition-related research, evaluation and audit.
A commitment to continuing professional development, including the undertaking of relevant formal and informal postgraduate training and collection of evidence of competency to practice.
Participating in individual performance reviews.
Involvement in risk management assessments as required.
Complying with Nottingham CityCare policies, procedures and statutory regulations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree, post-graduate diploma or equivalent).
2. Registered dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council.
3. Broad variety of post registration work experience as a registered dietitian.
4. Accurate keyboard and IT skills for record keeping, data inputting, word processing, internet access and dietary analysis.
Desirable
5. BDA Paediatric Dietetics Course Module 1 and 2.
6. Postgraduate accredited courses on nutrition/dietetic topics, food allergy, obesity, autism.
7. Experience of working in partnership with local authority and other non-NHS agencies.
Special Requirements
Essential
8. Full driving licence and the ability to travel between locations.
Experience
Essential
9. Broad variety of post registration work experience as a registered dietitian.
10. Previous clinical experience working with children requiring a variety of therapeutic diets.
11. Experience of working in a multidisciplinary health care setting.
Desirable
12. Experience working with Clinical systems, SystmOne.
13. Experience of working in the field of food allergy
14. Experience of working in primary care and community settings.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
15. Knowledge of national targets and reports relevant to food, and nutrition and other relevant guidelines (, NICE guidance, SACN, BDA Paediatric Group and FAISG position statements, Change 4 Life.
16. Knowledge of the nutritional requirements of different population groups, with emphasis on infants, children and young people.
17. Appreciation of health inequalities in relation to food.
18. Demonstration of good written skills
19. Experience in communicating effectively with staff from a variety of professions on a one to one or group basis; able to do presentations to large groups.
20. Experience in communicating complex information in an understandable form to patients and carers on a one to one or group basis.
21. Awareness of communication needs of people from differing cultures and with differing physical and learning abilities.
22. Ability to react sensitively and professionally to unforeseen clinical and non-clinical situations.
23. Ability to work unsupervised.
24. Ability to manage own caseload.
25. Good time management skills, able to meet deadlines.
26. Demonstration of commitment to professional and personal development.
27. Confident, self-motivated and adaptable.
28. Ability to reflect and appraise own and peer performance.
Desirable
29. Experience of using behavioural change and counselling techniques to promote lifestyle changes with individuals and or groups.
30. Experience of using Systmone for record keeping purposes.
31. Experience in planning, delivering, and evaluating education and training programmes to patients, students and a variety of staff groups.
32. Experience in project development, implementation, and evaluation.
33. City & Guilds 7407 teaching certificate (or equivalent).
34. Clinical Supervisory Skills course.
35. Published reports and papers.
36. Advanced counselling skills.
37. Motivational interviewing skills.