Highly Specialist Dietitian: Paediatric Metabolic and ketogenics

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Highly Specialist Dietitian in a vibrant children's hospital. This role focuses on delivering exceptional dietetic care, particularly for children requiring ketogenic diets. You will lead a dedicated team while collaborating with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure the best outcomes for young patients. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a supportive environment that values innovation and compassion, making a real difference in the lives of children and their families. If you're passionate about pediatric care and eager to contribute to an expanding service, this is the perfect role for you.

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is essential for this role.
• Experience in a specialist area and team supervision is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex clinical caseload for children and infants.
• Lead dietetic care for children requiring a medical ketogenic diet.

Skills

HCPC registration

Clinical decision making

Team leadership

Excellent communication

Evidence-based practice

Education

Degree in Dietetics

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

Highly Specialist Dietitian: Paediatric Metabolic and Ketogenics

Band 7

Main area: Dietetics Grade Band 7 Contract: Permanent Hours: Part time - 33.75 hours per week (over 5 days Monday-Friday) Job ref: 164-6623150-B

Site: The Children's Hospital Queens Medical Centre Town: Nottingham Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period: Yearly Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59

Job Overview

We are looking to appoint a Band 7 Highly Specialist Dietitian within the Children’s team. This individual will be the dietetic lead for the Ketogenic service and will additionally work within the newly expanded metabolic team at Nottingham Children's Hospital.

This role is permanent at 0.9 WTE (33.75 hours Monday-Friday).

We are seeking a proactive and innovative individual who has an interest in working in a specialist and learning-rich environment. The successful applicant will demonstrate compassion and empathy for our children, young people, and their families in their work. The individual will be working within the neurology team to lead on the dietetic care of children requiring a medical ketogenic diet for intractable epilepsy. Additionally, the successful individual will be joining an expanding multi-professional team as we begin to collaborate with Leicester to form the East Midland’s Paediatric Metabolic Service.

If you would like to work in a friendly environment and are motivated and enthusiastic about making a difference to the care of patients, we would like to hear from you!

Main Duties of the Job

The successful candidate will manage a complex clinical caseload, working across both inpatient and outpatient settings, providing care to infants and children in collaboration with their families/carers 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.

Working for Our Organisation

The Nottingham Children's Hospital (NCH) is based at the Queens Medical Centre campus and is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). We provide inpatient and outpatient care for children up to the age of 19 years old. With 97 beds, we care for around 40,000 children each year from Nottinghamshire and beyond, treating a full range of conditions, including planned and emergency treatment and surgery, burns and plastics, neurological conditions, oncology, paediatric critical care, renal conditions and transplantation, and spinal and orthopaedic care.

The Children’s Therapy team at NCH is a friendly and supportive department that works closely alongside the wider MDT, providing excellent evidence-based care and innovative ways of working. Throughout NUH we have a diverse range of AHP and support staff who work together to deliver the high-quality care we aspire to.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registration

Experience

• Wide-ranging and extensive experience of working within a specialist area
• Experience of delegating to and supervising other members of the team

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• 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 Skills

• 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.

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.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available.

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part-time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of Redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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Consent:

• Transfer of Information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post may be subject to a DBS check which incurs a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard).

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Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Giana De Sousa Job title: Clinical Specialist Paediatric Metabolic Dietitian Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07812276574