Highly Specialist Paediatric Dietitian Diabetes Lead

NHS; Bolton; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Highly Specialist Paediatric Dietitian to lead diabetes care for children and young people. This role involves working within a multidisciplinary team, providing advanced dietetic services, and ensuring high-quality care across multiple settings, including hospitals and community health centers. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in paediatric diabetes management and demonstrate excellent communication skills. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering exceptional patient care and making a real difference in the lives of families in need.

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian with children and families.
• Able to travel independently as per role requirement.

Responsibilities

• Lead Dietetic Clinical services for Diabetes at an Advanced level.
• Support children and young people with Diabetes across various settings.

Skills

Paediatric Dietitian

Diabetes Management

Communication Skills

Multi-disciplinary Team Working

Education

Masters Module on Diabetes in the Young

Completion of Band 6 competency framework for Paediatric Dietitians

Job description

Highly Specialist Paediatric Dietitian Diabetes Lead

Bolton Foundation Trust are looking for a Highly Specialist Dietitian-Diabetes Lead for Paediatrics. The post sits within the Multidisciplinary Diabetes Team supporting Children and Young People with Diabetes. This is a 0.8WTE band 7 post covering 4 days a week.

Main duties of the job

The main duties are to be the Dietetic Clinical Lead for Diabetes, working at an Advanced level

You will need to be flexible in your working pattern to meet the needs of children and families seen in a variety of settings such as Royal Bolton Hospital, Outpatients, GP surgeries, Health Centres, Start Well Centres, Schools and patient homes. Therefore, we are looking for someone who is able to travel around these sites.

About us

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients

At Bolton Foundation Trust, our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care, and we are guided by our Trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence formaternity, neonataland care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is supported by our, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.

Job responsibilities

For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role, please see the attached job description. If you have any questions, or would like to discuss the job role in more detail, then please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.

Person Specification

• Experience of working as a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian with children, young people and families in an acute or community setting.
• Experience of Paediatric Diabetes management.
• Able to travel around the area independently as per role requirement
• Masters Module on Diabetes in the Young
• Completion of Band 6 competency framework for Paediatric Dietitians working in Paediatric Diabetes (BDA)
• Attendance at regional CYP Diabetes Network meetings and regional diabetes dietitians meetings

Communication and MDT working

• Evidence of experience in multi-disciplinary team working.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with individuals and groups
• Member of BDA, including diabetes sub-group.

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.

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearPer Annum pro rata