Community Paediatric Dietician

Main area Dietetics Grade NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract Permanent: Part Time

Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (days of work are negotiable)

Job ref 220-WHT-3036

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Tynemouth Road Health Centre

Town London

Salary £51,883 - £58,544 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS

Salary period Yearly

Closing 21/04/:59

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and dynamic team in the London Borough of Haringey, working for Whittington Health NHS Trust. The post is a part time (22.5 hrs/week) based at Tynemouth Road Health Centre in Tottenham and in the special schools within the borough. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to babies, children and young people with a range of needs including those who are enterally fed, autistic young people and babies and children with feeding difficulties. The trust offers excellent opportunities to develop personal and professional skills through well supported training and development initiatives.

Main duties of the job

• To hold a case load and provide dietetic assessment, advice and monitoring regarding children who have complex health and/or neurodisability (cerebral palsy, syndromes, profound and multiple learning disabilities).
• To provide specialist intervention to neonatal patients requiring Home Enteral Tube Feeding or Oral Nutritional Supplements.
• To reflect on clinical practice, identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical judgement.
• To act professionally and adhere to national best practice guidance and BDA guidance at all times.
• To maintain accurate and comprehensive records of dietary advice given to patients and record clinical decisions in accordance with BDA and Trust/legal standards, and to communicate treatment outcomes with other professionals as appropriate.
• To be professionally and legally responsible/accountable for the management of your own clinical caseload and to organise this effectively with regards to clinical priority.
• To calculate Body Mass index, protein/energy intakes, vitamin and nutritional intake of children, in order to meet the nutritional demands and expected reference nutrient intakes.
• To carry out growth measurements on children through height and weight assessments, and ensuring correct equipment is used whilst carrying out growth assessments.
• To monitor and review the progress of children in caseload and facilitate the development of care plans as appropriate using evaluation and outcome measures.
• To work autonomously, carrying out full dietary assessments providing comprehensive treatment/care plans, and giving specialist advice to patients, carers and clinicians.
• To develop skills, to be able to cover and monitor enteral fed children as required.
• To support the effective transition of children between children's centres/nurseries, between schools and post school provisions to adult services with regards to aspects of nutrition.
• To ensure the practice is adapted to meet individual/client needs/circumstances; taking into account cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
• To undertake home visits, as necessary, in compliance with the Trust Home Visiting Safety Policy.
• To be responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge of Child Protection procedures and attend professional or strategy meeting at the request of the Area Child Protection Team/Social services. To ensure mandatory child protection training is attended.
• To understand and interpret the medical assessments and treatments i.e. medications, investigations, surgical treatments which may affect the nutritional management.

Person specification Education / Qualifications

• Professional Degree/diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
• HPC registration

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to assess and treat children and young people who have severe and complex disabilities.
• Ability to evaluate intervention programmes.
• Knowledge of providing HETF in the community.

Knowledge & Experience

• Sufficient post graduate experience to meet the clinical knowledge skills and experience required.
• Broad range of Paediatric experience at band 5 and band 6 level.
• Understanding of child protection procedures and responsibilities in regard to this.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form

• Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
• Make sure you include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job, unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If you require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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