Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a Bank Band 6 Senior Paediatric Dietitian to join our growing and enthusiastic paediatric dietetics team at Frimley Park Hospital. We have 7.5 hours per week available with the potential for more hours.

The responsibilities within this role include the nutritional assessment and care of paediatric outpatients for a new weight management service. This role will be based at Heatherwood hospital as part of an MDT.

The paediatric dietetic work contributes towards best care approach and in turn the Frimley Health Foundation Trust strategy. This role will support this work and provide an opportunity to develop and practice skills within both inpatient and outpatient groups.

Our department is a well-established friendly team with dietitians working within 12 specialities. Our department values each individual within the team by supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, which creates a supportive team environment. We have a focus on encouraging continued professional development by providing internal and external opportunities for learning.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

To provide assessment, treatment and management of paediatric outpatients, including knowledge and experience in oral and enteral nutrition.

To be an active member of multi-disciplinary teams for paediatric patients.

To work in partnership with paediatric dietitians to have regular clinical supervision.

To co-ordinate and manage patient dietary information for the speciality.

To act as an expert resource, providing dietetic advice and support to health care professionals working within paediatrics.

To support with the appropriate and timely triaging of outpatient referrals.

To support the paediatric team lead in maintaining relevant guidelines and pathways within this speciality

To be flexible in times of increased demand to the service and be willing to cover other areas of the hospital and work on other sites within Frimley Health NHS Foundation trust

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnelworkingalongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong EDI culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contributes to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be involved with the advanced assessment, treatment and management of paediatric patients on the dietetic caseload. Please refer to attached job description for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oRecognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
• oHCPC registration
• oMember of BDA

Desirable

• oAttendance of relevant accredited courses

Experience

Essential

• oPost registration clinical dietetic experience in NHS
• oExperience of general paediatric dietetics
• oExperience of providing weight management support

Desirable

• Experience of working as part of an MDT

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• oGood organisational skills
• oGood time management
• oEvidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings
• oExcellent computer skills: Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting

Desirable

• oSome basic leadership skills

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Camberley

GU16 7UJ

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