Dietitian

CRC Central Remedial Clinic; Dublin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Job summary

The CRC Central Remedial Clinic in Clontarf, Dublin, is seeking a Senior Dietitian to lead paediatric dietetic services for ages 0-18 with disabilities and complex needs. You will join a multidisciplinary team, delivering person-centred nutrition care, develop and monitor care plans, and support staff education.

Applicants must have at least three years post-qualification paediatric dietetics experience, leadership skills, and CORU registration.

Qualifications

• Three years' full-time post-qualification dietetic experience
• Demonstrated depth and breadth of paediatric dietetics
• Knowledge of assessment and treatment of complex feeding issues
• Leadership and team management skills in a multidisciplinary setting
• Excellent communication, initiative and time-management skills

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical nutrition and dietetic assessment and intervention for children and young people with disabilities and complex health needs
• Develop, implement and monitor individualised care plans with families and carers
• Support children with complex feeding issues including oral-motor dysfunction and complex enteral regimens
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver family-centred care
• Provide guidance and education to dietetic colleagues and healthcare professionals
• Contribute to the development of policies, care pathways and evidence-based resources
• Participate in audits, research and quality improvement initiatives
• Support supervision and mentoring of colleagues and student dietitians
• Manage a specialist clinical caseload according to service needs
• Maintain CORU registration and travel to CRC locations as required

Skills

Paediatric dietetics

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Dietetic assessment

Education

BSc Dietetics or equivalent

CORU registration

Job description

Permanent, Full-time, based in CRC Clontarf 35 hours per week | 30 days' annual leave

Shape the future of specialist pediatric dietetic care

Are you an experienced Paediatric Dietitian looking for an opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of children, young people and their families?

The Central Remedial Clinic is seeking a Senior Dietitian to join our specialist paediatric services in Clontarf.

Working as part of an experienced multidisciplinary team, you will provide a comprehensive, person-centred dietetic service to children and young people aged 0 to 18 years with disabilities, complex medical needs, nutritional needs and feeding difficulties.

This is an opportunity to bring your clinical expertise into a highly specialist service, where you will work collaboratively with families, dietetic colleagues and healthcare professionals across the CRC's Enhanced Complex Care Pathways. You will support children with complex feeding presentations, oral-motor dysfunction, restrictive eating and enteral nutrition requirements, while helping to develop evidence-based resources, care pathways and service improvements.

Why join the CRC?

During 2024, the CRC embarked on a programme of organisational transformation, partnering with the Virginia Mason Institute, internationally recognised for supporting healthcare organisations through continuous improvement and transformational change.

Our strategy, Creating Pathways that Empower and Enable, reflects our commitment to delivering disability services in a more connected, equitable and responsive way. We are building a culture of transparency, collaboration, continuous learning and person-centred care.

We are looking for someone who shares our values of:

• Respect
• Quality
• Courage
• Stewardship

If you are motivated by specialist clinical practice, collaborative working and the opportunity to influence how services develop, this role offers you the chance to contribute to the future of paediatric disability services.

The role

• Provide specialist clinical nutrition and dietetic assessment and intervention for children and young people with disabilities and complex health needs.
• Develop, implement and monitor individualised care plans in partnership with children, young people, families and carers.
• Support children with complex feeding issues, including oral-motor dysfunction, avoidant or restrictive food intake presentations and complex enteral feeding regimens.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver coordinated, integrated and family-centred care.
• Provide expert advice, guidance and education to dietetic colleagues and other healthcare professionals.
• Contribute to the development of policies, clinical care pathways and evidence-based resources.
• Participate in clinical audit, research, quality improvement and service development initiatives.
• Support the education, induction, supervision and mentoring of colleagues and student dietitians.
• Manage and prioritise a specialist clinical caseload in line with service and departmental requirements.
• Be registered, or be eligible for registration, as a Dietitian with the Dietitians Registration Board at CORU.
• Provide proof of statutory CORU registration before a contract of employment can be issued.
• Have a minimum of three years' full-time post-qualification dietetic experience, or an aggregate equivalent of three years' full-time experience.
• Demonstrate depth and breadth of experience in paediatric dietetics.
• Have knowledge and experience of the assessment and treatment of complex feeding issues.
• Demonstrate strong nutrition support skills.
• Have leadership and team management skills, including the ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary team members.
• Demonstrate excellent communication, initiative, clinical reasoning, planning and time-management skills.
• Have the requisite professional knowledge, suitability, management and leadership ability to fulfil the responsibilities of a Senior Dietitian.
• Have access to their own transport, as travel to other CRC locations may be required in accordance with service needs.

It would be advantageous to have:

• Evidence of postgraduate continuing professional development relevant to paediatric dietetics.
• Postgraduate education or training in the management of complex feeding difficulties, including approaches such as SOS or responsive feeding.
• Experience supporting children with complex feeding issues associated with oral-motor dysfunction.
• Experience of working with children with neurodisabilities, complex health needs or disabilities.
• Experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring, professional education or student practice education.
• Experience developing evidence-based resources, policies or clinical care pathways.

It must be clearly demonstrated in your CV and supporting statement how you meet the required skills, competencies and knowledge for the post. Department of Health Salary applies Senior Dietitian grade code 3395 (€65,197 - €76,767)