Advanced Paediatric dietitian

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool requires an experienced paediatric dietitian to join our cardiology service. The role involves expert nutritional assessment and management for infants, children and young people across inpatient and outpatient pathways, working closely with cardiologists and nurses to optimise growth and pre/post-surgical nutrition.

You will mentor Band 6 colleagues, contribute to service development, and support education and governance activities while

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge and experience in paediatric dietetics within cardiology.
• Assessment, treatment and monitoring of patients with nutrition support.
• Collaborate with MDT to develop educational resources for families.
• Communicate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist dietetic services for paediatric cardiology patients.
• Manage enteral and parenteral nutrition as required.
• Support growth and development across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Contribute to service development and clinical governance.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our friendly, supportive and forward-thinking dietetic team. We are seeking an experienced paediatric dietitian to work within our specialist cardiac service.

The successful candidate will provide expert nutritional assessment and management for infants, children and young people across the inpatient and outpatient cardiology pathway. Working closely with cardiologists, specialist nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in supporting growth and development, optimising nutritional status before and after surgery, managing enteral feeding, and contributing to service development and clinical governance activities.

Ideally you should be able to commence at Band 7 level but full consideration will be given to experienced applicants to commence at Band 6 with the view to progress to band 7 level when ready.

This role also offers opportunities to mentor and supervise rotational Band 6 dietitians, contribute to departmental service development projects and student training, and support team leads with management and leadership activities.

• To use an advanced level of knowledge, skills and experience to provide highly specialist evidence based clinical dietetic services within identified paediatric sub specialities within the Trust. This includes assessment, treatment and monitoring of patients and the provision of nutrition support, both enteral and parenteral, dietetic treatment and education of families to enable continuous treatment at home. It incorporates both in-patient and out-patient care.
• To collaborate with the other members of the sub speciality dietetic team to develop and maintain evidence based educational resources which enable families to manage the on- going dietetic care of their child.
• To communicate effectively within the multi-disciplinary care team both at an individual patient level and regarding wider aspects of dietetic and nutritional care standards.
• To continuously review the evidence base for nutrition and dietetic interventions in children and young people.

Sponsorship

We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications.

Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship.