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