Highly Specialist Paediatric Community Dietitian

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced part-time Paediatric Community Dietitian to join our team.  This is a part-time post (22.5hours per week) and the hours are flexible.

You will play a pivotal role in providing high quality nutritional care to children  within the community setting of Wandsworth. Your responsibilities will include  community clinics, managing a caseload of nutrition support and home enteral feeding patients. You will work alongside another Band 7 Paediatric Community Dietitian and be jointly responsible for supervising two part-time Band 6  Dietitians. You will be expected to travel around Wandsworth borough using public transport, visiting clinics, patient homes and special schools. Our clinic locations are St John's Therapy Centre (Clapham Junction), Queen Mary’s Hospital (Roehampton), and Tooting Health Centre (Tooting).

Main duties of the job

The St George's dietetic department consists of over 60 dietitians, who provide clinical inpatient, outpatient and community services to a variety of specialties including oncology, renal, neurology, haematology, paediatrics, cardiology, major trauma, gastro, surgical, diabetes, infectious diseases and HIV.

The department is committed to training dietetic students and actively participates in the training programs of clinical and non-clinical staff. There are numerous opportunities for professional and personal development.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Conducting a weekly general community dietetics clinic to assess and advise patients on their nutritional needs.

Managing a caseload of nutritional support and home enteral tube feeding patients.

Working alongside another part-time Band 7 Paediatric Community Dietitian, providing supervision to Band 6 Paediatric Community Dietitians.

Liaising closely with the large acute paediatric dietetics team at St George's Hospital.