Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CPD opportunities

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust in London is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated senior paediatric dietitian to join the HEF team. You will work within a multidisciplinary HEF service, supporting children and young people with home enteral feeding, outpatient clinics, home visits and school clinics.

The role requires strong clinical paediatric dietetic experience, ideally with acute paediatrics, excellent communication, and the ability to contribute to quality improvement and CPD within a 31-strong

Qualifications

• Strong clinical paediatric dietetic experience.
• Ideal experience in acute paediatrics.
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary working within a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialized dietetic advice to children and young people receiving Home Enteral Feeding (HEF).
• Undertake outpatient clinics, home visits and school clinics.
• Contribute to quality improvement, research and audit within the HEF service.

Skills

Paediatric dietetics

Acute paediatrics

Clinical nutrition

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our dynamic team!

As part of the largest NHS acute trust in England and one of London’s busiest tertiary children’s hospitals, we provide a wide range of specialist paediatric services including Surgery, Cystic Fibrosis, Gastroenterology, Allergy, Neonatology, Neurology, Diabetes, and PCCU. Our patient population is culturally diverse, covering both some of the most affluent and socially deprived areas in the country.

This senior paediatric role focuses on our well-established Home Enteral Tube Feeding (HEF) service. You will work as an integral member of the HEF team, which includes 2.1 WTE Band 7 Dietitians, and participate in joint SLT clinics as well as school clinics at local specialist schools.

We are looking for someone with strong clinical paediatric dietetic experience, ideally including acute paediatrics. Excellent communication skills and a passion for working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team are essential. You will join a friendly and supportive department of 31 paediatric dietitians across three acute sites.

We offer a well-established programme of quality improvement and research, and fully support CPD opportunities—making this a fantastic role to further develop your career.

To work within the multidisciplinary team and Integrated Service for Children with Disabilities, to provide highly specialized dietetic advice to children and young people receiving Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) in Tower Hamlets ;

To provide outpatient clinics in these areas. Also to undertake home visits and school clinics/visits.

The post holder would undertake research and audit on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based.

The post holder would undertake research and audit on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sophie Aubrey Job title: Head of Paediatric Dietetics Email address: [e-mail]