Community Paediatric Dietitian Bank position - Band 6

Job overview

The post for Community Paediatric Dietitian sits within Children’s Services and the post holder will be responsible for the nutrition and dietetic management of community paediatric clients registered with a Sutton GP under the care of Sutton Health and Care.

You will be required to provide dietetic care to a caseload of children with general dietetic requirements and will advise their carers in a range of locations including clinic settings, special or mainstream schools or at home.

This role is one of an autonomous practitioner but also involves joint liaison with other professionals involved with the child and their families both within health and other agencies.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for a defined clinical caseload of children and young people as identified by the service specification, managing this independently and prioritising own workload to ensure effective service provision
• To provide appropriate specialist dietetic assessment, advice and monitoring for children with general dietetic needs including food allergies.
• There may be opportunities to also provide dietetic assessment, advice and monitoring children with complex special needs and those who require enteral tube feeding.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To reflect on clinical practice, identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical judgment.
• To provide expert advice to patients, carers, and clinicians regarding nutritional intervention for paediatric clients based on clinical evidence. This will involve nutritional diagnosis (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and diet history), the development of treatment plans (calculation of nutritional requirements and client-centred goals), prescription of dietary therapy and use of ACBS products where appropriate.
• To interpret received information concerning medical and social history to ensure expert advice is given in a person centred, age and culturally specific way.
• To ensure that dietetic records of assessment, treatment and progress are maintained in accordance with the ESTH record keeping policy and HCPC standards.
• To provide accurate and timely written and/or verbal reports and programmes to parents / carers, referrers and other agencies involved in children’s care
• To provide complex paediatric nutrition counseling and use of reassurance and motivational skills to overcome barriers to change, particularly where there is non-compliance.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.