Specialist Paediatric Dietitian – General Paediatrics

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A vibrant opportunity as a dietitian at a leading NHS trust in London. Join a dynamic team supporting paediatric patients while enhancing your professional skills in a collaborative environment. The role supports both inpatient and outpatient care and promotes continuous professional development.

Benefits

Continuing Professional Development

Flexible working options available

Qualifications

• Registered dietitian with HCPC registration.
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams and acute settings.
• Understanding of clinical governance and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide dietetic services to pediatric inpatients and outpatients.
• Undertake research and audit to ensure evidence-based practice.
• Participate in continuous professional development and training.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

Clinical Governance

Education

BSc Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics

HCPC Registration

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic dietitian with energy and drive, to join our team.

The role will cover a general Paediatric caseload at the Royal London Hospital. You will also be trained in PCCU and work alongside the specialist PCCU Dietitian. You will work as an integral member of the Paediatric Dietetic team (32 Dietitians who work across 3 acute sites). The workload consists of both inpatient and outpatients and you will also have the opportunity to build your experience within other paediatric specialities.

You will ideally have good clinical dietetic experience. Paediatric experience is desirable, but not essential. You must have excellent communication skills and enjoy working within a dynamic multidisciplinary environment. You will join a large friendly team of Childrens Therapists.

We have a well-established programme of quality improvement and research, and fully encourage CPD. This is an opportunity to develop your acute paediatric skills.

For more information, please contact Sophie Aubrey, Head of Paediatric Dietetics 0203 594 1532 (Mon/Tues/Wed) or Jennifer Kearns, Specialist Paediatric Dietitian [e-mail] (Tues-Fri).

Main duties of the job

Working within the Acute Children's Therapies service across Barts Health, the post holder will work as part of the Paediatric Dietetic team. To build upon current clinical experience and undertake some specialist training, to provide an effective, flexible clinical dietetic service to General Paediatrics and PCCU based at the Royal London Hospital. The post holder would undertake research and audit on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based.

About us

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

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

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.

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications and knowledge

• oBSc Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification
• oHCPC Registration.
• oEvidence of continuing professional development
• oDetailed knowledge of clinical governance.
• oUnderstanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
• oAbility to research, demonstrating interpretation of literature and application to own practice to ensure clinical practice is up to date.
• oKnowledge in specific Paediatrics.
• oUnderstanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
• oMember of relevant special clinical interest group
• oSupervision training.
• oQualification in Paediatrics or evidence of experience in Paediatrics

Experience

• oPost-qualification experience working.
• oExperience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• oExperiencing of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to graduate standard.
• oExperience of working within the acute setting.
• oExperience of working in Paediatrics.

Skills

• oExperience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to graduate standard.
• oSupervision of students and clinical support staff.
• oAbility to work effectively single handily with individuals and groups
• oAbility to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care.
• oAbility to undertake audit and change practice in accordance with findings.
• oAbility to research and interpret literature and apply to own practice to ensure clinical practice is up to date.
• oAccurate keyboard skills - data inputting, word processing, internet and dietary analysis.
• oAccurate anthropometric measurements and skills e.g. weights, heights, skin fold calipers to assess patients' nutritional status and devise clinical plan.
• oThe ability to prioritise, organise and delegate.
• oTo be able to understand the legal responsibilities of the profession.
• oExcellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy skills.
• oSkills for problem solving.
• oThe ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.
• oTo have effective presentation skills.
• oTo have participated in research.

Personal and people development

• oAbility to demonstrate behaviour change facilitation / motivational interviewing.
• oAble to organise complex information.
• oAble to reflect and appraise own performance
• oSelf-motivation.
• oWorking with clients from multi-cultural/multi-lingual backgrounds and working with interpreters.

Communication

• oExcellent oral and written communication skills with people from a variety of backgrounds e.g., via advocacy/interpreters.
• oAbility to communicate life threatening/complex medical conditions in a sensitive and easily understandable language
• oAbility to present complex information to groups over 20 either to staff or patients.

Specific requirements

• oFlexible, adaptable, and creative.
• oConfident and self-motivated
• oAbility to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality.
• oAble to deal with distressed client's relatives and staff.
• oAble to maintain effective working relationships with relevant colleagues.
• oAble to set priorities and meet deadlines in spite of repeated interruptions sufficient to perform the duties of the post without any aids and adaptations.
• oTo be able to cope with physical and emotional effort throughout the day.
• oAble to work between Trust sites.

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.