Paediatric Dietitian

We are seeking a highly skilled Paediatric Dietitian to join our team at Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. As a specialist in paediatric dietetics, you will play a crucial role in providing expert care to children and their families.

• Provide dietetic assessment, advice, treatment, and counselling to support behavioural change in children and their families/carers through one-to-one interviews, group sessions, and structured education.
• Autonomously manage a highly complex caseload and work with children and their carers to agree patient-centred care.
• Work collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary healthcare team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.
• Evaluate patients' progress and contribute to and implement service improvement work.
• Use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans.
• Provide 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.
• Manage clinical risk within own caseload and have an understanding of safeguarding.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust 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. We focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible, with many of our services provided at home, work, or in the community.

We promote 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.