# Specialist Paediatric Dietitian **Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: fixed-term **Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9213-26-0924?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1507cb06-9e5 ## Description We are seeking a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian to join our large friendly team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for a nine-month, fixed-term secondment cover due to maternity leave. The post provides a comprehensive service to our general medical and surgical inpatients with two outpatient clinics per week at our Denmark Hill site. **Main Duties and Responsibilities:** - Assessment, treatment, and timely discharge planning of a complex caseload of infants and children - Development, application, and dissemination of expertise - To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of work in compliance with the ethical code of practice set out by the Health and Care Professions Council - Work with the dietetic and multidisciplinary teams to formulate and deliver individual dietetic treatment plans for patients based on sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options - Contribute to the local development and delivery of structured education programmes - Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent, and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment - Evaluate patient progress, reassess, and alter treatment regimens as required - Manage clinical risk within own patient caseload - Work within Trust clinical guidelines and have good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor quality of practice as appropriate - Maintain accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records in line with British Dietetic Association (BDA) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of practice - Timely assessment, treatment, and monitoring of nutritionally vulnerable infants and children with complex medical needs **Person Specification:** - Essential qualifications: BSc/Postgraduate diploma in Nutrition & Dietetics, current HCPC registration, evidence of Continuing Professional Development - Desirable qualifications: Post Graduate BDA Paediatric Module/s, relevant postgraduate course/study days - Essential experience: Paediatric experience, significant experience with complex enteral nutrition support, knowledge of dietetics within the NHS, experience of multi-disciplinary working - Desirable experience: Experience of nutrition support in children and infants, formal lecturing/teaching experience - Essential skills: Good oral and written skills, ability to work in a complex and busy environment, ability to work effectively in a MDT, ability to be flexible, adaptive, and solution-focused, ability to maintain effective relationships with distressed children and families/carers - Desirable skills: Motivational and counselling skills **Benefits:** - Competitive salary: £47,951 to £56,863 per annum - Agenda for Change pay scheme - Band 6 - Full-time, 9-month fixed-term contract **About Us:** - Our vision is to transform healthcare, with six strategic ambitions to improve care for patients and the working lives of our staff - We are committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan ## Skills ### Required - Nutrition & Dietetics - HCPC registration - Continuing Professional Development - Paediatric experience - Complex enteral nutrition support - Multi-disciplinary working - Good oral and written skills - Flexible and solution-focused - Effective relationships with distressed children and families ### Nice to have - Post Graduate BDA Paediatric Module/s - Relevant postgraduate course/study days - Nutrition support in children and infants - Formal lecturing/teaching experience - Motivational and counselling skills --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9213-26-0924?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)