We are excited to advertise two fixed term 1 year contracts/up to end date July 2026
1.0 WTE covering a career break and 0.8 WTE covering maternity leave
We are looking for experienced, motivated and enthusiastic paediatric dietitians to join our team, working closely within the paediatric metabolic MDT to provide highly specialist dietetic advice, education and support to patients, carers and other health professionals.
The paediatric metabolic dietitian is a member of the dietetic and paediatric multidisciplinary teams. The post holders will play a key role in the nutritional management of this patient group and will provide highly specialist dietetic advice, education and support to patients, carers and other health professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
The role involves covering outpatient clinics as well as inpatients and the post holder will provide support to dietitians looking after patients under the care of the Evelina team if they are admitted to their local hospital.
The post holder will work within the metabolic MDT, working closely with the team of metabolic dietitians ( WTE = 1.7 band 8a, 2.4 band 7, 1.0 band 6 and 1.0 dietetic assistant), specialist nurses and consultants providing support and training and be actively involved in the Trust’s clinical governance programme and quality agenda framework for ensuring continuing professional development, audit and research activities within this specialist area.
The post holders will join a wider paediatric dietetic team of 39 WTE dietitians and dietetic assistants who cover a wide range of specialties including inherited metabolic disease, diabetes, renal, gastroenterology, complex feeding clinic, allergy and respiratory.
The service is overseen by the Evelina London Lead Dietitian and the Paediatric team form part of the wider dietetic department of over 100 dietitians, with a focus on innovation, quality, education, development and well-being.
Please see the attached detailed job description, which outlines the main responsibilities of this post.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025