Would you like the opportunity to develop your community paediatric skills as part of a small but friendly department? We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about working in paediatrics to join our team.
This role involves seeing children and their families in community clinics, offering a mixture of face to face, video, telephone and email support to patients, GP’s and other community health professionals, including the 0-19 Family Wellbeing Team.
The Childrens Community Dietetic Team is responsible for providing expert advice and support for children with food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties, restricted eating including children with autistic spectrum disorder, micronutrient deficiencies, as well gastro issues such as, constipation, IBS and annual reviews for coeliac disease.
This permanent Band 6 post plays an integral role within the overall Community Dietetic Team, you will be responsible for your own clinical caseload, clinical supervision will be given by the Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian. As well as providing dietary advice for a large range of nutritional needs, you will be expected to contribute to resources, audit and service development, as well as training for other health care professionals as necessary.
Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Community Paediatric Dietitian within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free and plentiful on site-parking
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main ResponsibilitiesThis role will involve working closely with the Paediatric Lead Dietitian to develop the existing Community Dietetic Service in West Essex to ensure delivery of safe, efficient and effective services.
The role requires you to have a good knowledge and practical experience of nutrition and dietetics. You will have some knowledge of working with children and families and ideally experience of working in the community, although this is not essential.
You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage your own workload under pressure to meet the deadlines and demands of the service.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
Registration with HCPC
Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, or equivalent
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Minimum 1 year clinical (including 6 months paediatric experience)
Clinically competent to give specialist advice, treatment and dietary counselling to patients with diverse healthcare needs across the community
Ability to use clinical judgement and reasoning in assessing and evaluating complex patients
Competent IT and keyboard skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbally and written
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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