Paediatric Dietician

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 8,000 - 12,000; Part time

Job summary

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Great Yarmouth is seeking an enthusiastic individual to join the paediatric dietetic team. The role covers one day per week at James Paget University Hospital or The Newberry Child Development Centre, supporting children and families aged birth to 19 years with dietetic services.

You will work with a large multidisciplinary team to deliver dietetic support, training, and education, and help develop services including paediatric diabetes

Qualifications

• Experience in paediatric dietetics is desirable.
• Ability to train patient groups and health professionals.
• Willingness to contribute to service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic support to children and families up to age 19.
• Train patient groups and health professionals.
• Develop paediatric diabetes and paediatric allergy dietetic services.
• Contribute to broader nutrition and dietetics service development.

Skills

Training delivery

Education to health professionals

Team collaboration

Autonomy in service delivery

Job description

Looking for someone enthusiastic to join our friendly paediatric dietician team. The role will cover one day a week based either at James Paget University Hospital or The Newberry Child Development Centre. Post holder would work alongside a senior dietician to help deliver the service to children and families within our area. The successful candidate would work as part of our large multi-disciplinary team covering a range of dietician support and advice working with age ranges from birth up to 19th birthdays., To work autonomously to provide a flexible and comprehensive dietetic service for children withinJames Paget University Hospital and the local community.

• - To be responsible for providing training and education to patient groups and health professionals
• - To take an active role in the development of the dietetic service within paediatric diabetes
• - To provide a specialist dietetic service to the paediatric allergy
• - To contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in servicedevelopment

We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.

We're a 450-bed district general hospital. Through the national NHS Staff Survey, our staff value our commitment to flexible working, and feel engaged and involved in how services operate.