Specialist Paediatric Dietitian

Job Description

Specialist Paediatric Dietitian

Full OR Part-Time hours considered

Band 7 £41,659-£47,672

Job overview (details with more information / how to apply below)

Jobs at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust : Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (yeovilhospital.co.uk)

We have an exciting opportunity for a specialist paediatric dietitian to come and join our friendly and supportive team of paediatric dietitians. The position we are offering is permanent and will be for 37.5 hours per week but we are able to accommodate flexible working options. We are a very forward–thinking and supportive team and there is potential for the role to become an advanced practitioner role should the applicant be interested.

The caseload is varied and interesting with opportunities to work with patients from infancy through to late adolescence. You will have the opportunity to work with infants and young people with allergies, restricted eating patterns, ex premature infants and young children with feeding tubes. We have a large caseload of over 100 children and young people with Diabetes and you will have the opportunity to develop skills in working with this group of people. We also provide an inpatient service to young people with eating disorders working closely with a team of nursing and consultant staff.

You will be able to work across inpatient and outpatient settings and have the skills to cover a weekly Paediatric Outpatient clinic. Outpatient clinic work includes working with children with allergies, restricted diets, and faltering growth associated with neurological and developmental issues. You should have excellent communication skills liaising with other healthcare professionals in Tertiary centres as well as local GP and Health Visitor teams. There is scope within the role to develop work in a specific clinical area. You will have regular professional development activity to support your learning.

Main duties of the job

Provide a specialist dietetic service to paediatric wards by means of regular in-patient rounds and to ensure that patients on the children’s ward and Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) receive the appropriate dietary intake.  This will involve the assessment of individual patients’ medical condition, nutritional status, calculation of their requirements and devising a care plan to meet the patients’ nutritional needs.  This will involve those with a complex presentation and you may need to request diagnostic tests where appropriate.

Working for your organisation

Yeovil Hospital is an ambitious and friendly Trust that is extremely proud to provide acute care for a population of more than 225,000 people in South Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip. The hospital has 345 beds, a busy Emergency Department, a variety of outpatient and diagnostics services, and a private patients’ wing which offers a personal service in state-of-the-art clinical facilities, with all profits being invested back into NHS healthcare.

Yeovil Hospital’s iCARE model, which has established the principles of exemplary patient care, patient and employee experience, has attracted national interest and is embedded in everything we do, following our vision to care for our patients as if they are one of our family. The Trust’s shared vision has led to our staff rating Yeovil Hospital the best in England for employee health and wellbeing for the third year running in the annual NHS staff survey 2020.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please Note:  Our Trust is undergoing a merger to enable Yeovil Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to become one combined organisation in April 2023.   If you are successful in securing employment with the Trust we wanted to make you aware of this proposed merger. If this merger is confirmed,  your employment will continue as part of  the newly formed Trust.  

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name – Raphaella Rookes

Job title – Head of Nutrition and Dietetics

Email address – raphaella.rookes@ydh.nhs.uk

Telephone number – 07920542758

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Maximum score 6

• BSc Nutrition, Nutrition and Dietetics, or appropriate health science degree with Postgraduate qualification in Dietetic.
• Registration with Health Care Professions Council
• Postgraduate study at Masters level including specialist BDA approved Paediatric Post-graduate Training Modules 1 – 3

Desirable criteria

Maximum score 4

• Registered Member of British Dietetics Association
• Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups of the British Dietetic Association

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Maximum score 8

• Substantial post-graduate experience in paediatric dietetics
• In-depth knowledge of a range of paediatric clinical conditions
• Experience in type 1 diabetes including insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring
• An awareness of local and national policy for type 1 diabetes

Desirable criteria

Maximum score 2

• Counselling skills or post graduate training in behaviour change techniques