Senior Dietitian - Paediatrics & Community

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Dietitian to work across paediatrics and community services in Harrogate area. You will consolidate advanced dietetic skills in diverse clinics and home-based care, collaborating with the paediatric MDT and community teams.

The post offers opportunities to develop expertise in allergy, failure to thrive, coeliac disease, feeding clinics, and home enteral feeding support, with face-to-face interviews preferred.

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian with HCPC
• Member of the BDA
• 1 year experience of delivering dietetic assessment and intervention within a range of areas and including adult and paediatrics.
• 6 months or more community dietetics experience
• Has gained some experience of working with groups and individuals in practice placement / previous experience and can give examples of this, including preparation, delivery and evaluation of sessions
• 6 months experience of paediatric dietetics
• Experience of supervising dietetic support staff

Responsibilities

• In Paediatrics the post holder will have the opportunity to experience a range of specialities including failure to thrive, allergy, learning disabilities, specialist schools, coeliac disease and in-patient ward cover.
• In Community the post holder will support the adult oral nutrition community pathway including the care homes service in the Harrogate area.
• You will be involved in helping to deliver our care home training and education programme as well as being involved in audit at the care homes.
• The post holder will have the opportunity to support the home enteral feeding teams within both community and paediatric dietetic team.

Job description

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Dietitian to work across paediatrics and community services in Harrogate area. You will consolidate advanced dietetic skills in diverse clinics and home-based care, collaborating with the paediatric MDT and community teams.

The post offers opportunities to develop expertise in allergy, failure to thrive, coeliac disease, feeding clinics, and home enteral feeding support, with face-to-face interviews preferred.