Specialist Paediatric Dietitian

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Reading; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare trust as a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian, where you'll work in a community-based role supporting children with complex health needs. This part-time position offers an opportunity to join a compassionate team committed to delivering high-quality care within diverse settings across Berkshire.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days’ annual leave

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

Discounts at retailers and restaurants

Qualifications

• Experience with children and young people with complex health needs.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good knowledge of safeguarding procedures.

Responsibilities

• Manage a designated caseload of children requiring dietary support.
• Provide dietary education for complex health needs.
• Collaborate with various healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive care.

Skills

Clinical dietary assessment

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Education

Degree in Dietetics or equivalent

Job description

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Are you looking for a new and exciting community-based role, working within a supportive and friendly team?

We have a vacancy within our team for a Specialist Paediatric Dietetic on a fixed term contract for one year.

We are looking for somebody who is passionate about working with children and young people (CYP) with complex health needs who are enterally fed and/or those who have feeding difficulties across Berkshire.

You will be based at a University of Reading site but will be required to work with CYP and their families across a wide range of community settings within Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham including their home, special schools and respite or short break settings, delivering high-quality dietetic, support, training and advice.

You will manage a designated case load, working within a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency colleagues.

For this role you will need to have good clinical and organisational skills and the ability to work independently and autonomously, whilst also remaining part of the wider team. Effective communication with the multi-disciplinary team is vital with a good knowledge of safeguarding.

Your working pattern will be 22.5 hours per week between Monday – Friday. Flexible hours will be considered.

• To provide expert clinical dietary/nutritional assessment, management and education for CYP with complex needs who require enteral feeding
• To manage and balance nutritional requirements against other co-morbidities, including the calculation of nutritional requirements based on interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry and clinical condition(s)
• To provide specialist skills and knowledge to CYP with disabilities and/or complex needs who are at risk of nutritional imbalance
• To provide specialist supervision and support to newly qualified dieticians and students within the team using expertise and learning to share best practice.
• To set up and manage feeding delivery accounts and relevant equipment for enterally fed CYP from home delivery companies, managing issues related to financial prudence and effective use of resources
• To work in partnership with Community Children’s Nurses, Specialist School Nurses, Special Needs Schools, Primary Care, Short break settings, Children’s Services, and other appropriate agencies, to develop, plan and implement individualised care plans
• Work within Berkshire Safeguarding Children’s Board and Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) policy and procedures, prioritising attendance at Case Conferences, reviews, and planning meetings. To be responsible for the provision of case conference reports and court reports as required, contributing to safeguarding of all children
  
  

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Thompson Job title: CCN and SSN Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07760 415776

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