Specialist Advance Dietitian - Paediatric

NHS Professionals Limited; Southampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

NHS Professionals Limited is seeking registered paediatric dietitians to work on an on-site basis at Southampton General Hospital, via NHSP. The role supports vacancies with highly specialist dietetic input and professional supervision of junior staff.

It emphasizes evidence-based practice and service improvement within the NHS framework. Bank shifts offer flexibility with a strong emphasis on safeguarding patient care, professional development, and collaborative working with multidisciplinary

Qualifications

• Registered paediatric dietitian with HCPC registration.
• Experience in leading and supporting dietetic junior staff.
• Ability to apply evidence-based guidelines in paediatric nutrition.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously to provide highly specialist dietetic expertise.
• Lead nutrition treatment plans for complex caseloads.
• Support development of policies and resources for dietetic practice.
• Engage in audits, research and dissemination of results.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Clinical dietetics

NHS context

Education

HCPC registered dietitian

Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics

Job description

a) Work as an autonomous practitioner, providing highly specialist clinical dietetic expertise for

defined clinical areas

b) Provide advanced dietetic assessments and individualised treatment plans for a complex

specialist caseload

c) Support the clinical and professional development of junior dietetic staff and students

d) Support the development of policies and resources to support delivery of evidence-based dietetic

advice

e) Identify and lead service improvement, audit and research and disseminate results and best

practice through publication and presentation

Main duties of the job

The UHS paediatric dietetic team are seeking registered paediatric dietitians already working as band 6 or band 7 paediatric dietitians in the NHS, who would be interested in working as and when hours via NHSP to support our workforce when we have vacancies. This will require onsite working at Southampton General Hospital. We are not currently seeking dietitians who wish to work remotely.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

1. Work autonomously to manage a highly specialist, high quality, evidence-based, effective dietetic

service within defined clinical areas

interpreting food and fluid charts, taking anthropometric measurements and review of laboratory

results, biochemistry and investigations

3. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on comprehensive individual nutritional

assessments, clinical condition and other physical parameters and select and evaluate nutritional

treatment plans including recommending appropriate nutritional products

4. Independently formulate, deliver, monitor and adjust accordingly, individualised nutritional

treatment plans, recognising limitations of treatment options, and when to refer to other disciplines

or to seek expert advice

5. Participate in ward rounds/multidisciplinary meetings/case conferences to provide expert dietetic

expertise integrating dietary assessment, assisting diagnosis and influencing treatment decisions.

6. Provide complex nutritional counselling to patients/carers and communicate complex nutritional

information, adapting information as necessary where there are barriers to understanding and

providing appropriate advice and reassurance

7. Communicate and liaise with multidisciplinary teams regarding complex nutrition related

prescriptions and nutritional management of patients and where necessary provide information

and education to clinicians, patients, and carers

8. Interpret and apply national clinical guidelines to ensure that dietetic treatment enables patients

to achieve optimal improvement in quality of life

9. Simplify complex nutritional issues for patients and their carers, developing appropriate training

interventions using a variety of methods as part of a structured programme for identified patient

groups

10. Provide an interface between all parties involved with provision of nutrition and patient care11. Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, being professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of professional activities working to agreed local, national, and professional standards 12. Plan and prioritise own caseload adjusting to meet emerging priorities and ensuring the timely maintenance of appropriate records 13. Assist the prioritisation of workload for junior team members providing senior advice and support where required 14. Provide clinical supervision and professional support to identified members of the dietetic team, undertaking appraisals for assigned staff 15. Participate in planned and unplanned clinical cover as required to support the wider service 16. Promote nutrition related activities to ensure that an effective patient focused service is available, and that nutrition is integrated within the healthcare agenda 17. Participate in the recruitment and selection of members of staff 18. Participate in the planning, supervision, training, and assessment of students 19. Contribute to the development, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of training programmes for a variety of healthcare professionals 20. Identify and lead relevant projects/audits/service evaluation/research, to ensure delivery of best practice and effective service provision, disseminating results through publications and presentations at local and national level 21. Review service capacity and contribute to operation planning to resolve capacity issues in conjunction with service leads 22. Manage clinical risk and undertake risk assessments regarding patient condition and environment to ensure patient and staff safety. 23. Present complex nutritional information to large groups of people e.g. university presentations or conferences 24. Contribute expert nutrition opinion in initiating, developing, and reviewing nutrition related standards, guidelines, policies, resources and service developments.

Qualifications

• Essential Desirable
• Degree or equivalent in Nutrition and Dietetics Member of British Dietetic Association (BDA) and relevant specialist groups
• HCPC (Health and Care professions Council) registered dietitian
• (RD) Experience mentoring or supervising dietetic assistants or junior staff
• Evidence of commitment to relevant ongoing CPD and
• development in relevant areas Experience and involvement with dietetic student training
• Evidence of relevant dietetic knowledge and expertise with recent
• experience demonstrating this Experience of audit/project work
• Ability to communicate complex information fluently, confidently and
• effectively to a diverse range of people: e.g., with patients, carers
• managers and other health care professionals Ability to cover out of hours commitments on agreed occasions
• Ability to demonstrate a practical and sensitive approach and
• flexibility in working style when applying clinical judgement to
• complex clinical issues
• Ability to create rapport and professionally manage relationships with
• colleagues, patients and carers and the emotional challenges this
• presents
• Demonstrate a holistic approach to treatment
• Ability to cope with unpredictable events and varying clinical and
• non-clinical work pressures, independently planning and prioritising
• own workload, managing own time and meeting deadlines
• Member of British Dietetic Association (BDA) and relevant specialist groups
• Experience mentoring or supervising dietetic assistants or junior staff
• Experience and involvement with dietetic student training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experiencePay between Band 6 to 7

Contract

Bank

Duration

1 years

Reference number

M0042-26-0339

Job locations

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust