Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Are you looking for a dietetic career with excitement and variety? Do you want to live in an area with great connections to London and Europe? Do you want to work in a team who will nurture you and support your career aspirations? Is flexible working that meets work/life balance important to you? Then this is the role for you! We are looking for an experienced paediatric dietitian to work in our award-winning, innovative and friendly team of 10 paediatric staff. We are the largest community paediatric dietetic team in the South East and we sit within a larger Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Service employing over 50 dietetic staff working in both acute and community settings in the beautiful South Eastern coastal County of Kent. In 2020, our trust was rated as Outstanding! The report stated "We found a healthy and authentic culture of valuing staff, openness, fairness and putting the patient at the heart of every policy, strategy and service delivered. Staff consistently told us they felt valued by their leaders and the organisation. Staff shared a great sense of pride in working for the trust." We offer flexible working opportunities to achieve the best work/life balance possible and a hybrid of base and home working. Full time or part time hours will be considered.*Complete Nutrition, Sustainability award, 2023
Main duties of the job
This exciting role will be to support children and their families with a diverse range of conditions both face to face and virtually. You will lead/co-lead on the direct care of the paediatric enteral feeding caseload encompassing a diverse group of patients with a range of complex conditions and co-morbidities. You will also be involved in the care of patients with more general nutritional concerns such as faltering growth, nutritional deficiencies, allergies, coeliac disease and restrictive eating. If successful, you will be fully supported and integrated into the team where your opinions and input will be welcomed and valued and you will have access to clinical supervision and in-house training and other CPD opportunities internally and externally to support your development.
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent;
* Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council;
* Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups;
* Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Master's degree or equivalent;
* Registered Member of British Dietetics Association;
* Specialist BDA approved Paediatric Post-graduate Training;
* Full valid Driving Licence;
* Modules 1 and 2 or equivalent experience, Modules 3 and 4 or equivalent experience;
Experience
* Experience in the field of paediatrics;
* Specialist experience in paediatric dietetics including enteral feeding, complex neuro-disability and end of life; MDT working;
* Contributor to the development of patient information, protocols and care pathways for specific interventions and conditions;
* Line/Team management;
* Audits;
* Ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of people at all levels (verbal and written);
* Excellent inter-personal skills (negotiation, influencing and assertiveness);
* Providing training for others (Public & health care professionals);
* Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal;
* Behaviour change/motivational interviewing;
Skills/Abilities
* Must be able to work on own initiative;
* Demonstrates highly developed analytical and reflection skills and ability to reflect on feedback;
* Good IT skills and willingness to develop these;
* Problem solving and decision-making skills;
* Highly-developed concentration skills and ability to prioritise especially when under pressure;
Knowledge
* Well-established knowledge of a range of assessments relevant to the specialist client group;
* In-depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits;
* In-depth knowledge of the principles of clinical governance/audit;
* In-depth knowledge of children's enteral nutrition;
* In-depth knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the specialist client group);
* Evidence of implementing ideas and developing services;
* Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group);
* Awareness of the need to provide a cost-effective service;
* Awareness of equal opportunities;
* Confidentiality;
Personal attributes
* Committed to delivering safe and effective customer care and staff care - Tactful, caring and sympathetic manner; Polite, pleasant and understanding manner; Self-motivated and confident; Innovative and enthusiastic; Credible practitioner/role model;
Ability to manage
* Good time management;
* Ability to support, supervise and mentor colleagues;
* Able to travel between sites across Kent to meet the needs of the service;
* Demonstrates an awareness of the wider context of service delivery;
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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