Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time Band Paediatric Dietitian with an interest in neonates to join the Paediatric Dietetic team at the Oxford Children’s Hospital.
This post will primarily work alongside the Deputy Team Lead to provide specialised dietetic care to the Neonatal Low Dependency Unit (including post-discharge neonates under the care of the Neonatal outreach team), hold a small caseload of patients within the Oxford Children's Hospital and provide ½ day a week supporting adult respiratory patients.
This post is a day and a half neonatal, a day covering the acute general wards and ½ a day supporting adult respiratory.
Main duties of the job
1. Hold a small caseload of dietetic inpatients across the Oxford Children's hospital to ensure feeding and nutritional needs are catered for and ensuring smooth and timely discharges.
2. Working along side the neonatal band dietitian provide dietetic support to the neonatal low dependency unit.
3. Run a weekly telemed clinic supporting a defined caseload of post-discharge neonates under the idots neonatal outreach team.
4. Support data collection for this clinic to evidence an unmet service need.
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