# Band 6 Dietitian

**Company**: HCRG Care Group
**Location**: Harlow
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £32000.00 to £39500.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a motivated Band 6 Dietitian to join our Children's Dietetic Team in Essex. As a Band 6 Dietitian, you will develop your paediatric dietetic skills within a growing community team, working closely with children, families, and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality nutritional care.

The service supports children and young people with a wide range of nutritional needs, including food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties, restricted eating, micronutrient deficiencies, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and coeliac disease.

Alongside your clinical work, you will contribute to service development, audit activity, resource creation, and training for healthcare professionals across the wider system.

**Main Responsibilities:**

- Developing Paediatric Services: Working closely with the Paediatric Lead Dietitian and wider Community Dietetic Team, you will help develop and enhance paediatric dietetic services across West Essex.

- Managing a Specialist Caseload: You will independently manage your own paediatric caseload, delivering specialist dietary assessment, treatment, and ongoing support for children and their families.

- Providing Expert Clinical Support: Using your clinical expertise and professional judgement, you will assess children with a variety of nutritional and feeding difficulties, developing evidence-based treatment plans.

- Working Collaboratively: You will work closely with GPs, the 0-19 Family Wellbeing Team, and other healthcare professionals, ensuring effective communication and joined-up care for patients.

- Professional Development and Supervision: You will receive clinical supervision and support from the Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian.

**Benefits:**

- Band 6 Agenda for Change salary (£32,000 to £39,500)

- NHS Pension Scheme membership

- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

- Membership of My Reward Hub

- Access to earned wages before payday

- Online and face-to-face wellbeing support

- Access to eLearning and continuing professional development

- An open and inclusive culture

- Flexible and hybrid working options

**Person Specification:**

- Essential:

- HCPC registration

- Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics (or equivalent)

- At least one year's post-qualification clinical experience

- Strong clinical competence in paediatric dietetics

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to work autonomously and manage a varied caseload

- Good IT skills

- Desirable:

- Experience working within a community healthcare setting

- Experience delivering virtual consultations

- Experience contributing to audit or service development

## Skills

### Required
- paediatric dietetics
- nutritional care
- clinical supervision
- communication skills
- IT skills

### Nice to have
- community healthcare setting
- virtual consultations
- audit
- service development

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