# Highly Specialist Dietitian for Paediatric Allergy & Acute Services

**Company**: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Tooting
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An opportunity has arisen for a Dietitian with an interest in paediatric allergy to join our team of 17 Paediatric Dietitians and 4 Dietetic Support Assistants. This will be a maternity cover post. You will be the clinical lead responsible for providing dietetic support to the Paediatric Allergy service and will work closely with the other members of the paediatric allergy multiprofessional team.

The paediatric dietitians at St Georges provide a service to general paediatric medicine, as well specialist areas such as neonatology, gastroenterology, allergy, HIV, ketogenic diets and PICU. Numerous opportunities for professional and personal development will be available to you. Additionally, you will be actively involved in the research, audit and the Clinical Governance objectives of the department and the Trust.

**Main duties of the job**

- As a clinical lead specialist, to be responsible for the development and provision of a specialist, evidence based paediatric dietetic allergy service to the paediatric allergy unit at St Georges Hospital.

- To take the lead in providing highly specialist dietetic advice to the multidisciplinary team through attendance and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings and ward rounds.

- To provide expert advice to clinicians, patients and carers regarding provision of nutritional support for paediatric patients based on clinical evidence.

- To use highly developed skills for making clinical judgements in highly complex clinical cases where there is no evidence available and expert opinion differs.

- To prescribe and modify on a daily basis specialised feeds made up by the special feed production unit.

- To directly prescribe and modify nutritional supplements based on nutritional status and to inform the medical team.

- To provide highly complex nutrition counselling to carers and paediatric patients.

- Ability to utilise developed communication and teaching skills, to educate and convey essential, highly complex and highly sensitive paediatric nutritional information to a diverse and multicultural population.

- To initiate and participate in regular research and audit within the area of paediatric medicine in line with departmental research and audit procedures.

**Person Specification**

- Postgraduate experience of working in acute paediatric dietetic services at advanced level within Paediatric Allergy

- Experience in working within the NHS at a senior level

- Experience of undertaking clinical audit/research in relevant clinical area

- Experience in working in a tertiary allergy service

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year Per annum pro rata inc HCAS (inner London)

- Part-time position

- Opportunities for professional and personal development

## Skills

### Required
- paediatric dietetics
- clinical judgement
- communication
- teaching
- research
- audit

### Nice to have
- experience in working in a tertiary allergy service
- experience of undertaking clinical audit/research in relevant clinical area

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