We are looking to appoint a Band 7 Highly Specialist Dietitian within the Children's team.

This individual will be the dietetic lead for the Ketogenic service and will additionally work within the newly expanded metabolic team at Nottingham Children's Hospital.

This role is permanent at 0.9 WTE (33.75hours Monday-Friday).

We are seeking a proactive and innovative individual who has an interest in working in a specialist and learning-rich environment. The successful applicant will demonstrate compassion and empathy for our children, young people and their families in their work. The individual will be working within the neurology team to lead on the dietetic care of children requiring a medical ketogenic diet for intractable epilepsy. Additionally the successful individual will be joining an expanding multi-professional team as we begin to collaborate with Leicester to form the East Midland's Paediatric Metabolic Service.

If you would like to work in a friendly environment and are motivated and enthusiastic about making a difference to the care of patients, we would like to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will manage a complex clinical caseload working across both inpatient and outpatient settings, providing care to infants and children in collaboration with their families/carers and the wider MDT. As a visible leader, you will be a role model for the Dietetic team ensuring high standards of quality care for patients and their families.

About us

The Nottingham Children's Hospital (NCH) is based at the Queens Medical Centre campus and is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). We provide In-patient and out-patient care for children up to the age of 19 years old.

With 97 beds, we care for around 40,000 children each year from Nottinghamshire and beyond, treating a full range of conditions, including planned and emergency treatment and surgery, Burns and Plastics, Neurological conditions, Oncology, Paediatric critical care, Renal conditions and transplantation, and Spinal and Orthopaedic care.

The Children's Therapy team at NCH is a friendly and supportive department who work closely alongside the wider MDT, providing excellent evidence based care and innovative ways of working.

Throughout NUH we have a diverse range of AHP and support staff who work together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC registration
• Diploma or degree in relevant qualification

Experience

Essential

• Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area
• Experience of delegating to and supervising other members of the team

Analytical and judgement skill

Essential

• Able to make decisions about the treatment needs of highly complex patients
• Lead on the development of improvements in service delivery and clinical practice using evidence based practice to recommend changes

Communication

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors

Planning & organisational skil

Essential

• Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand

Other

Essential

• Undertake out of hours duties as required.

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

The children's Hospital Queens Medical Centre

Derby Road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH

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