Advanced Dietitian- Paediatrics
This post offers the opportunity to join our paediatric dietitians team for a fixed term of one year. This post provides highly specialist dietetic advice to in-patients and out-patients including children with feeding difficulties and home enteral feeding.
You must have post-graduate NHS experience working in paediatric dietetics and a desire to demonstrate high standards of care with excellent communication skills.
This post is based at St Richards Hospital and will join our department of dietitians providing services to St Richards Hospital (approx. 450 beds), outpatients and the surrounding community, including home enteral feeding services. The department is well respected and has clinical speciality areas in acute medicine, critical care, diabetes, elderly care, gastroenterology, home enteral tube feeding, oncology, paediatrics, stroke/neurology, bariatrics and surgery.
Chichester is located on the South coast with the sea and South Downs within easy reach. It is a vibrant and lively place to live and work with excellent transport links to Portsmouth, London and the rest of the South coast.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the Paediatric Dietitians Department in providing a highly specialist dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients.
In addition, the post-holder will also participate in supervision of student dietitians on clinical placement and undertake relevant audit and research to further best practice.
This workload may be subject to change depending on internal department service review, e.g., maternity or sick leave cover.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
About us
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in ourWellbeing Programmefor staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.
We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as part of the Paediatric Dietitians Department in providing a highly specialist dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients.
Please see Job description and person specification for full details
Person Specification
Experience and Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
Address
St Richards Hospital
Chichester
PO19 6SE
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
279-6423681-JUL24
You must have post-graduate NHS experience working in paediatric dietetics and a desire to demonstrate high standards of care with excellent communication skills.
This post is based at St Richards Hospital and will join our department of dietitians providing services to St Richards Hospital (approx. 450 beds), outpatients and the surrounding community, including home enteral feeding services. The department is well respected and has clinical speciality areas in acute medicine, critical care, diabetes, elderly care, gastroenterology, home enteral tube feeding, oncology, paediatrics, stroke/neurology, bariatrics and surgery.
Chichester is located on the South coast with the sea and South Downs within easy reach. It is a vibrant and lively place to live and work with excellent transport links to Portsmouth, London and the rest of the South coast.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the Paediatric Dietitians Department in providing a highly specialist dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients.
In addition, the post-holder will also participate in supervision of student dietitians on clinical placement and undertake relevant audit and research to further best practice.
This workload may be subject to change depending on internal department service review, e.g., maternity or sick leave cover.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
About us
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in ourWellbeing Programmefor staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.
We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as part of the Paediatric Dietitians Department in providing a highly specialist dietetic service to in-patients and out-patients.
Please see Job description and person specification for full details
Person Specification
Experience and Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or post-graduate diploma in Dietetics
- Current registration with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- NHS experience in paediatric dietetics
- Working in a Multi-disciplinary team
Desirable
- NHS experience working in relevant field
Skills
Essential
- Excellent and upto date clinical dietetic knowledge
- Evidence of CPD in relevant field
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable
- Experience of student training
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
Address
St Richards Hospital
Chichester
PO19 6SE
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
279-6423681-JUL24
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