Band 6 Paediatric Dietitian

4 days ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you interested in joining an innovative, high profile and dynamic team that prides itself on its excellent quality of care?

We are offering an opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic dietitian with an interest in paediatrics to join and grow our friendly team. You will join a multi professional team of 9 Community Paediatric Dietitians and 1 Paediatric Nutrition Nurse, with excellent administration support. It is preferable that you have paediatric experience to be considered for a band 6 post, but not essential.

This is a clinical role working with children & families referred into the service by BCHC colleagues and GPs, as well as children discharged from acute units. You will have a high degree of autonomy in your clinical practice and day-to-day organisation of your workload, within the context of supportive team of peers.

To adhere to the standards of conduct, performance and ethics and the dietitians standards of proficiency of the Health Professions Council.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work,

To be aware of your level of responsibility and accountability within the service, being guided by policies, procedures and the support of peers and to support lower grade colleagues to do the same.

To remain aware of the limitation of own knowledge and experience and seek advice and guidance as required.

To act in a professional manner promoting the organisation, the role of the dietitian and the importance of nutritional care.

To be responsible for maintaining and demonstrating own competence to practice through participation in appraisal process and CPD within the framework of the professional portfolio.

To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex nutritional needs.

To plan and deliver individualised nutritional care plans based on comprehensive assessment of needs and a knowledge of evidence based practice, modifying the care plan as required. This will include practical and emotional support for children with severe and life-limiting diagnoses and their families on all matters related to their dietetic care.

To negotiate and agree dietary or nutritional goals with individual patients and/or their carers using motivational interviewing, counselling and cognitive behaviour therapy tools as applicable.

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BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Birmingham Community Nutrition has embraced new ways of working to keep all our patients and staff safe post pandemic, we continue working both remotely and in Covid-secure office/clinic space. Free car parking is available at all sites, and you will be provided with a Trust mobile and laptop.

The department has a structured approach to clinical governance and your personal development via annual appraisal, clinical supervision, mentoring and CPD opportunities. This post will provide opportunities for training, research, teaching and project work in a supportive team environment. We offer the opportunity to complete a supplementary prescribing course. We consistently listen to what works for the service and our staff, and encourage innovation and flexibility in all its forms.

Birmingham Community Nutrition continues its position as one of the largest community dietetic services in the country and has a strong national and local profile and a reputation for innovation and partnership working.

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification



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