Paediatric dietitian

2 months ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We have a team of specialist paediatric dietitians and if this clinical area is still quite new to you we can offer support, supervision and a competency based training package. You will have the opportunity to be involved in student training. The post will mostly focus on inpatients and you will work with the paediatric MDTs and have support from the paediatric outpatient and home enteral feeding dietetic team. We are keen to provide development opportunities for our staff to progress your dietetic career journey and as a trust we proactively promote your wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

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 highly 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 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

clinical experience

Essential

competency in paediatric dietetics demonstrated

professional and clinical skills

Essential

demonstrate competent professional skills and wide range of effective communication skillss
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