Are you an experienced Health Care Practitioner with a genuine interest in nutrition and working with children and their families?
Would you like to expand your experience within a supportive and highly respected team in a large, busy department and teaching hospital environment?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced individual to join the CUH Paediatric Dietetic Team as an Assistant Practitioner, within the Paediatric Oncology sub-team.
You should possess excellent communication skills, and have experience of working with children in a preferably within a clinical setting and experience of a food and nutrition environment.
To act as part of the Dietetic Team and in conjunction with existing Paediatric Dietitians, assist in the provision of specialist dietetic services primarily to the Paediatric Oncology and Haematology Service within Addenbrooke’s Children’s Services and other external agencies and hospitals as appropriate.
To work within a multi-professional framework and contribute to a first-class service through evidence based clinical practice, management, education, research and audit.
To set and work toward individual and team objectives that reflect corporate plans and work within Trust’s the clinical governance framework.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
You will be joining a diverse and stimulating team of Paediatric Dietitians who function as part of our Regional Paediatric Oncology Service, providing specialist care to children, young people and their families with cancer diagnoses. Our work is wide ranging and well respected, both locally and as a regional specialist treatment centre. We provide excellent care across all paediatric specialities and have an ethos of child centred care and multi-professional collaboration, alongside a commitment to family focused teamwork.
You will have the opportunity to work autonomously within an agreed framework of practice as well as closely in conjunction with the Oncology Paediatric Dietitians and wider Oncology multidisciplinary team.
The focus of the role is to support the work of our three Paediatric Oncology Dietitians by developing and delivering a service for monitoring the nutritional progress of children from across the region who are receiving artificial nutrition support as part of their treatment package. This will be delivered primarily through regular attendance at clinics held within the Children's Oncology Day Unit and via a telephone-based service. Some support with children who are inpatients will also be included.
This role is based on site with office working hours of 9-5. It is part time (26.25 hours per week) ideally over four days around the Paediatric Oncology Clinics which are Tuesday and Thursday. Working patterns can be discussed further at interview. The opportunity for an informal visit can also be arranged.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
• applied for a Graduate visa
• or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
• or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
The advert will close at midnight on 5 February 2025.
Interviews are due to be held on 14 February 2025.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Feb 2025