Band 6 Dietitian

HCRG Care Group; Hare Street; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Reward hub discounts

Earned wages access

Wellbeing support

eLearning & career development

Innovation funding

Quality standards culture

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is recruiting a dedicated Paediatric Dietitian to join our Community Dietetic Team in West Essex. This permanent Band 6 post offers part-time hours, with a mix of face-to-face, video, telephone and email support for children and families across community clinics.

You will provide expert dietary advice for food allergies, growth concerns and GI issues, contributing to service development and training for colleagues.

Qualifications

• HCPC registration and eligibility to practice paediatrics.
• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent.
• Minimum 1 year of clinical experience with at least 6 months in paediatrics.
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage with children, families and healthcare teams.
• IT proficiency and ability to support digital service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance paediatric dietetic services in West Essex.
• Manage your own clinical caseload, providing specialist dietary advice to children and families.
• Use your clinical expertise and judgement to assess and support children with complex nutritional need.
• Receive clinical supervision from the Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian.

Skills

HCPC registration

1 year clinical experience

Interpersonal skills

IT proficiency

Flexible/Organised

Education

Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics (or equivalent)

Job description

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction We are delighted to be expanding our team and are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about working in paediatrics and contributing to our growing team. This role involves seeing children and their families in community clinics, offering a mixture of face to face, video, telephone and email support to patients, GP's and other community health professionals, including the 0-19 Family Wellbeing Team. The Children's Dietetic Team is responsible for providing expert advice and support for children with food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties, restricted eating including children with autistic spectrum disorder, micronutrient deficiencies, as well gastro issues such as, constipation, IBS and annual reviews for coeliac disease. As well as providing dietary advice for a large range of nutritional needs, you will be expected to contribute to resources, audit and service development, as well as training for other health care professionals as necessary. We are happy to explore flexible or hybrid working options, depending on operational needs. This new permanent Band 6 post will play an integral role within the Community Dietetic Team. Join us in a rewarding role with part-time hours - perfect for fitting around other commitments!

Job Responsibilities

This role will involve working closely with the current Band 6 Dietitian and the Paediatric Lead Dietitian to develop the existing Community Dietetic Service. As a key member of the Community Dietetic Team, you will:

• Work closely with the Paediatric Lead Dietitian to develop and enhance paediatric dietetic services in West Essex
• Manage your own clinical caseload, providing specialist dietary advice to children and families
• Use your clinical expertise and judgement to assess and support children with complex nutritional need
• Receive clinical supervision from the Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Paediatric Dietitian who is eager to grow within a community setting. The ideal candidate will have:

• HCPC registration
• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics (or equivalent)
• Minimum of 1 year clinical experience (including at least 6 months in paediatrics)
• Strong clinical competence in paediatric dietetics, including assessment, treatment, and counselling
• Excellent interpersonal skills to engage with children, families, and healthcare teams
• A flexible, organised approach, with the ability to manage workload under pressure
• IT proficiency to support digital service delivery and documentation

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.