Highly Specialist Paediatric Community Dietitian
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for an experienced part-time Paediatric Community Dietitian to cover maternity leave on a fixed term contract until August 2025. This is a part-time post (22.5 hours per week) and the hours are flexible. You will work within a team of Paediatric Community Dietitians and also as part of a multi-disciplinary feeding team comprising of a clinical psychologist, occupational therapist, and speech language therapist.
You will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality nutritional care to children within the community setting. Your responsibilities will include MDT feeding clinics and general community clinics, managing a caseload of nutrition support and home enteral feeding patients, running parent education groups, and conducting visits to nurseries and schools. You will work closely with the community paediatric speech therapists, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists. You will be expected to travel around Wandsworth borough using public transport. Our clinic locations are Eileen Lecky Clinic (Putney), St Therapy Centre (Clapham Junction), Queen Mary's Hospital (Roehampton), and Tooting Health Centre (Tooting).
Main duties of the job
The wider dietetic department consists of over 60 dietitians, who provide clinical inpatient, outpatient, and community services to a variety of specialties including oncology, renal, neurology, haematology, paediatrics, cardiology, major trauma, gastro, surgical, diabetes, infectious diseases, and HIV.
The department is committed to training dietetic students and actively participates in the training programs of clinical and non-clinical staff. There are numerous opportunities for professional and personal development.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust - being excellent, kind, responsible, and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these.
About us
St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey, and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services. With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m. Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,300 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
Co-located with St George's is the University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King's Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Job responsibilities
Conducting a weekly general community dietetics clinic to assess and advise patients on their nutritional needs.
Conducting a weekly MDT Feeding clinic and advise patients on their nutritional needs.
Collaborating with multidisciplinary team members to plan and manage patient care.
Organizing and running Feeding education workshops and groups for parents.
Managing a caseload of nutritional support and growth monitoring patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* BSc (Honours) postgraduate degree in Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent
* UK HCPC Current Registered
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Postgraduate training in specialty clinical area e.g. BDA Paediatric modules, SOS (Sequential-Oral-Sensory) and behaviour change
* Membership of BDA and relevant specialist group
Experience / Knowledge
* Postgraduate experience of working in acute and/or community paediatric dietetic services at a specialist level including enteral feeding
* Experience in the clinical supervision of students/junior staff
* Experience of multidisciplinary team working
* Experience in teaching and education to patient groups and healthcare professionals in relevant clinical area
* Experience of working in community services.
* Experience of working with children with sensory/behavioural or aversive/restricted feeding patterns
* Experience of working with children with physical, neurological, and developmental disabilities
Skills and Abilities
* Good oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
* Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
* Motivation and counselling skills
Knowledge
* Knowledge of dietetics within the NHS
* Knowledge of dietetics within specialist area including evidence of specialist training
* Working at Masters level or equivalent in specialty area
Other
* Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions
* Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
* Membership of British Dietetic Association or other body conferring professional indemnity insurance
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.
Salary: £54,320 to £60,981 a year including HCAS (20%)
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