Community Paediatric Dietetics Team Leader

Job overview

Are you an experienced clinician who is:

• Passionate to teach and inspire?
• Seeking freedom to lead?
• Innovative and driven?

Sandwell & West Birmingham Nutrition & Dietetic Services are seeking to recruit an advanced Dietitian to work in the community with babies, children and young people and their adults.

We are seeking an innovative individual who is driven to continue to grow and develop a community dietetics specialist service for our diverse population that is aspiring to be good or outstanding. Candidates will be joining a service at a time of considerable opportunity. You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders leading in a service that will strongly align with the community MDT.

The successful post holder will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in paediatric community dietetics and a proven track record of leading for quality improvement within Dietetic teams.

Our service covers all aspects of nutrition nursing & dietetic care within the Trust; for adults, paediatrics and transition services across inpatient, community and outpatient pathways. It is an exciting role at an exciting time for Dietetics, Allied Health Professionals and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust as we seek to become the leading provider of integrated care bringing lots of opportunities for future development

Main duties of the job

The successful postholder will lead our paediatric community dietitian team who work across Sandwell and West Birmingham primarily working with children and young people and their adults with a clinical focus on home enteral tube feeding and an overview of the community paediatric outpatient service. The role will have a focus on optimising MDT integration and the successful candidate will be able to work across multiple community locations; in schools, patient homes, healthcare centres and in domiciliary settings. You would be joining our existing community leadership structure working alongside our Clinical Nurse Specialist – Community Nutrition and existing Community Dietitian Team Leader (Adults) and the role will include exposure to a range of services and opportunities.

The Nutrition and Dietetics Department is an integrated and growing team of 40 dietitians and nutrition nurses; based across Sandwell and West Birmingham. We have regular departmental meetings, clinical supervision sessions and education meetings. Continuing professional development is promoted and supported.

The Department trains student dietitians from Coventry, Birmingham City University and Birmingham University College across the full range of placements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached documents for further details of the job including main responsibilities.

As a team, we live our core Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. Our trust champions nutrition and hydration as a fundamental of care and takes a strongly integrated, person-centred approach where independence and early intervention is promoted and encouraged using ‘What matters to you?’ principles. We are looking for a suitably aspirational candidate who will share these core values and behaviours.

Interested applicants are encouraged to make contact to arrange a conversation or an informal visit to further understand the role.