# Specialist Paediatric Dietitian

**Company**: Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Kingston Upon Thames
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 7 Paediatric Dietitian to join our friendly and forward-thinking Nutrition and Dietetics team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Dietitian to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering a specialist Paediatric Diabetes dietetic service for Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

You will also be covering 2 general paediatric and 2 GP clinics per month, so if you enjoy variety, this role will suit you. Specialist clinical skills, a highly professional attitude, along with excellent communication skills, organisational skills, and a caring and compassionate nature are essential for this post.

**Main duties of the job**

- Assess, diagnose, manage, plan, and deliver dietetic treatment programmes within Paediatric Diabetes for children and young people with Diabetes.

- Provide Paediatric Dietetic Assessment and Management on the Children's Ward and MDT clinics.

- Work as an autonomous practitioner providing a highly specialist, evidence-based dietetic service to patients across the service.

- Be an excellent Team member who builds good rapport with patients and staff and is flexible in their working patterns.

- Be responsible for the provision, quality, and continuous development of the Paediatric Dietetic Diabetes services.

- Be an active member of the Diabetes MDT providing Dietetic patient management, patient and staff training, and the ongoing development and evaluation of Paediatric Diabetes Services within the Trust.

- Provide expert advice and support to other dietitians and other healthcare professionals, including medical staff, AHP's, Nursing staff.

- Act as the Trust dietetic advisor on all aspects of hospital catering, involving close working with the hospital facilities team, ward staff, and the private catering contractor.

- Provide 2 GP clinics per month in Primary Care.

**About us**

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than half a million patients a year, from across Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. In 2018, we became the first acute hospital trust in London to be rated "Outstanding" for overall quality and leadership by the national Care Quality Commission regulator.

**Benefits**

- Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year pro-rata, pa, incl. HCAS

**Person Specification**

- Education/Qualifications:

+ Essential: BSc in Nutrition & Dietetics or BSc in relevant Science plus postgraduate diploma in Dietetics, HCPC Registered dietitian, Member of BDA   + Desirable: Member of the Paediatric Group of the BDA

- Experience:

+ Essential: Extensive and relevant experience in general dietetics post-qualification, Previous experience of working in the NHS, Substantial experience of managing a paediatric caseload, Experience of running clinics independently, Experience of managing paediatric patients with Diabetes   + Desirable: Previous experience in menu planning and catering audit

- Skills/Abilities:

+ Essential: Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team, Ability to work under own direction, Excellent verbal & written communication skills, Ability to carry out audits, service reviews/improvements, Excellent teaching skills   + Desirable: Management and Supervisory skills

- Knowledge:

+ Essential: Good clinical knowledge of paediatric dietetics, An in-depth understanding of all aspects of Diabetes   + Desirable: Working knowledge of Nutrition Standards in Hospital Food

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## Skills

### Required
- Paediatric dietetics
- Diabetes management
- Multidisciplinary team work
- Autonomous practice
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Teaching skills

### Nice to have
- Menu planning
- Catering audit
- Management and Supervisory skills
- Working knowledge of Nutrition Standards in Hospital Food

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