Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our team. We are part of the largest NHS acute trust in England, with one of the busiest tertiary children's hospitals in London. We provide several tertiary paediatric services including Surgery, Cystic Fibrosis, Gastroenterology, Allergy, Neonatology, Neurology, Diabetes and PCCU.
This senior paediatric post will cover our well-established respiratory service. You will work as an integral member of the respiratory team & some cover to PCCU. You will support the other paediatric caseloads & the wider team as required and help to line manage the general dietitians. You will join a supportive team including Band 7 CF/Respiratory/PCCU Dietitians & Band 6 CF/Respiratory Dietitian.
You will ideally have some clinical dietetic experience & some acute paediatric experience is essential with experience working within a respiratory or CF team. You must have excellent communication skills & enjoy working within a dynamic multidisciplinary environment. You will join a department of 32 paediatric dietitians, across 3 acute sites.
We have a well-established programme of quality improvement & research, & fully encourage CPD. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career within the Respiratory specialities.
For more information please contact Charlotte Walker, Senior Paediatric Dietitian [email protected] 02035941541 or Sophie Aubrey, Head of Paediatric Dietetics [email protected] 0203 5941532
Main duties of the job
To work within the multidisciplinary team, to provide highly specialized dietetic advice to children and young people with respiratory disorders;To undertake inpatient work and outpatient clinics. The post holder would undertake research and audit on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential
- BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification.
- Paediatric Dietetics Training
- HCPC registered
- In-depth knowledge in nutrition support and paediatrics
Desirable
- Member of relevant special clinical interest group Supervision training.
- Qualification in Paediatrics or Cystic Fibrosis/Respiratory or evidence of significant experience in these areas
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working in Nutrition and Dietetics and experience within acute paediatrics
- Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a team.
- Experience of working with respiratory/CF patients
- Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to graduate standard in area of speciality.
- Experience of Supervision of junior members of clinical staff
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups
- Ability to demonstrate behaviour change facilitation/ motivational interviewing.
- Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care
- Leadership skills.
- Accurate anthropometric measurements and skills eg weights, heights, skinfold calipers to assess patients nutritional status and devise clinical plan
- Ability to provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients
- Proven Audit skills
- To have effective presentation skills
- Regularly undertakes R&D activity eg. Critical Appraisal.
- Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality.
Desirable
- To have participated in research.
Personal and people development
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge.
- Understanding of own Knowledge and Skills and ability to identify learning needs and interests.
- Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better
- Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them.
Desirable
- Demonstrates a greater understanding of learning needs and evidence of facilitation skills
Communication
Essential
- The ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures
- Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner
- Ability to communicate life threatening/complex medical conditions in a sensitive and easily understandable language.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with people e.g via advocacy/interpreters.
Specific requirements
Essential
- Confident
- Self-motivated.
- Flexible, adaptable and creative.
- Able to set priorities and meet deadlines in spite of repeated interruptions
- Able to reflect and appraise own performance.
- Able to deal with distressed client's relatives and staff
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant colleagues
- Able to organise complex information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Barts Health NHS Trust
Address
The Royal London Hospital
London
E1 1FR