The post will mostly focus on inpatients and you will work with the paediatric MDT and have support from the paediatric outpatient and home enteral feeding dietetic team. You will also work closely with the community paediatric team and input into this part of the countywide paediatric service too. This is a great opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in paediatrics and to determine if you are more of an acute or community paediatric dietitian going forward.

Main duties of the job

The role involves:

o Providing dietetic assessment, advice, treatment and counselling to support behavioural change in children and their families/carers through one to one interviews, group sessions, structured education.

o Autonomously managing a complex caseload and work with children and their carers to agree patient centred care

o Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.

o Evaluating patients' progress and contribute to and implement service improvement work

o Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans.

o Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

o Managing clinical risk within own caseload and an understanding of safeguarding

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

clincial skills

Essential

• demonstrated knowledge in paediatrics and competent assessment and care planning skills

communication & professioanl skills

Essential

• demonstrates competency in communication and behaviour change and effective time management and team working skills

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Northampton General Hospital

Cliftonville Road

Northampton

NN1 5BD

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