Highly specialist Dietitian - Paediatric Gastro/Surgery

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust seeks a 0.8WTE Band 7 Highly Specialist Paediatric Dietitian to enhance care for children with complex gastroenterological conditions. This position combines clinical practice with leadership responsibilities in a multidisciplinary team, promoting high-quality evidence-based care and the development of junior staff.

Benefits

Endless personal development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• HCPC registration required.
• Evidence of post registration education in specialist clinical areas.
• Experience in pediatric dietetics and team supervision.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and support students and junior team members.
• Provide specialist dietary care in inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Lead dietetic service developments and staff training.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Team working skills

Analytical and judgement skills

Education

HCPC registration

Evidence of post registration education in specialist clinical areas

Job description

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Highly specialist Dietitian - Paediatric Gastro/Surgery

The closing date is 30 June 2025

We are looking to appoint a 0.8WTE Band 7 Highly SpecialistPaediatric Dietitian to support the established Children's gastroenterology and surgical service at Nottingham Children's Hospital at NUH, QMC campus. You should be an enthusiastic individual with excellent communication and team- working skills.

You will be required to have experience within paediatrics. Your caseload will include babies and children with a range of gastroenterological conditions including IBD , coeliac , eosinophilic esophagitis and post op surgical children. This will include supplementation , enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition. You will be supported by the Clinical Specialist dietitians within the gastroenterology and surgical dietetic team who help lead the team.

You will be a core and valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, comprised of consultants, other allied health professionals, specialist nurses and social workers, delivering high quality evidence-based care.

You will be responsible for the supervision, training, and support of students and more junior members of the team.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for a busy complex caseload. You will be required to work across both inpatient and outpatient settings, to provide specialist care to infants and children in collaboration with their families/carer and the wider MDT.

As a visible leader, you will be a role model for the Dietetic team ensuring high standards of quality care for patients and their families.

This post is ideal for a dietitian wishing to develop their clinical, leadership and service development skills. You will take part in education events, student and staff training and lead dietetic service developments, in collaboration with other members of the MDT.

About us

With over 19,000 staff,we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached for further details

You will be required to wear PPE as guided by local and national policy

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registration
• Evidence of post registration education in specialist clinical areas

Experience

• Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area
• Experience of delegating to and supervising other members of the team
• Knowledge of current best practice within a clinical speciality

Analytical and judgement skill

• Able to make decisions about the treatment needs of highly complex patients
• Lead on the development of improvements in service delivery and clinical practice using evidence based practice to recommend changes

Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors

Planning & organisational skil

• Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand

Other

• Undertake out of hours duties as required.

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts