Paediatric Dietitian

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A Healthcare Institution in the United Kingdom seeks a dedicated Paediatric Dietitian to join its multi-disciplinary team. You'll provide dietetic services for children and young people requiring home enteral feeding, working collaboratively with other professionals. Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic with strong communication and time management skills, committed to teamwork. This is an exciting opportunity to advance your career in a forward-thinking department.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic with great communication and time management skills.
• Ability to be flexible and a strong commitment to teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic services for children and young people on home enteral feeding.
• Work with adult learning disabilities dietitian to provide dietetic services.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner and source of expertise.

Skills

Communication skills

Time management skills

Teamwork

Job description

Overview

The successful candidate will work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary teams in community settings and support to training, joint visits etc. In addition, they will work with the Prescribing Support Dietitian to review appropriate provision of feeds and ancillaries.

Paediatric Dietetic Team

The paediatric dietetic team consists of 6 dietitians and a dietetic assistant practitioner providing a service to a number of specialist areas including allergy, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, neonatal unit, and home enteral feeding.

Requirements and Skills

• You should be enthusiastic, with great communication and time management skills and an ability to be flexible and have a strong commitment to teamwork.

Department and Setting

You will be joining our wider forward-thinking department of over 30 registered dietitians, dietetic support workers and admin staff, covering acute, community, paediatric and learning disability services. We have excellent admin support and take students from University of Surrey and Oxford Brookes University.

Responsibilities

• To provide, as part of the paediatric team, dietetic services for children and young people in the community on home enteral feeding.
• To work closely with adult learning disabilities dietitian to provide dietetic services for adults with learning disabilities on home enteral feeding.
• The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner and act as a source of expertise in the area of home enteral feeding.

Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting-edge research and education. With a "Good" rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.

About the Hospital

As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.

We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state-of-the-art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre.

Further investment is underway, including the construction of Oak Wards - a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards - and the recently approved Women and Children\'s Centre, set to open by 2030.

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