Paediatric Dietitian

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a health professional to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care to children and young people across community and inpatient settings in Grimsby. The role involves independent management of complex caseloads, advanced clinical assessment and contributing to MDT leadership and service development.

The post emphasises training, audits, and development of outcome measures, with flexible virtual working within service limits.

Qualifications

• Independent management of a varied clinical caseload across inpatient and community settings.
• Advanced clinical reasoning with evidence-based practice to assess, treat and discharge patients.

Responsibilities

• Independent management of a more and less complex clinical caseload across inpatient and community locations.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment, treatment and discharge using advanced clinical reasoning and investigative skills.
• Work within the wider MDT and take the lead as required.
• Provide support and clinical leadership to junior colleagues.
• Provide specialist reports.
• Identify, lead and support on audit and quality improvement projects within the service.
• Support training and development of patients, carers and other professionals.

Skills

Clinical assessment & reasoning

MDT collaboration

Audit & quality improvement

Training & development

Job description

Please note that a Band 5/6 development post will be considered for any candidates who do not meet all of the essential criteria.

Your will provide high quality, patient-centred care to children and young people across community and inpatient settings. You will support children, young people and their families with a wide range of conditions including but not exclusive to allergies, nutritional support, home enteral feeding, obesity and gastrointestinal conditions. You will work independently, but also as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will be expected to support the team lead in new developments, regular audits and development of outcome measures. We are also able to discuss and negotiate agile and flexible working utilising virtual working within acceptable limits to the service.

• Independent management of a more and less complex clinical caseload across inpatient and community locations
• Undertake comprehensive assessment, treatment and discharge of patients using advanced clinical reasoning, knowledge of evidence based practice, investigative and analytical skills incorporating training and practical experience.
• Work within the wider MDT and take the lead as required
• provide support and clinical leadership to junior colleagues
• Provide specialist reports
• Identify, lead and support on audit and quality improvement projects within the service
• support training and development of patients/carer's and other professionals

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Howard Job title: Operational Lead for Children's Therapy Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 03033303758

Michelle Pudsey, [e-mail] Team lead for Dietetics