Job requirements
Essential
13 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant post graduate experience including at least 3 years of varied clinical experience in Paediatrics
- Experience
Experience of working with Preterm babies and Neonates
- Experience
Experience of report writing, policy and guideline development
- Knowledge and skills
Specialist knowledge of the physiological development of term, preterm infants and IUGR infants
- Knowledge and skills
IT Literate
- Knowledge and skills
Able to manage caseload
- Knowledge and skills
Able to plan workload and supervise assistants and students
- Knowledge and skills
Able to audit practice and make recommendation for change
- Education and Training
Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or post graduate diploma or equivalent qualification
- Education and Training
Registered Dietitian by HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council)
- Education and Training
1st ,2nd and 5th BDA modules of qualification in paediatrics
- Education and Training
Evidence of relevant post graduate clinical education
- Education and Training
Evidence of CPD
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of student training
- Knowledge and skills
Counselling skills
- Knowledge and skills
Able to show evidence of implementing ideas and developing services
- Education and Training
Trained in facilitated learning for under-graduate practice placements
- Education and Training
BDA Membership
- Education and Training
Member of the BDA Paediatric and Neonatal groups
- Education and Training
PENG (Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition Group) course or other relevant experience
Job overview
We are very excited to have secured new funding (in line with BAPM requirements) to provide a specialist dietitian to our neonatal service at Darent Valley Hospital and we welcome you to come and join our friendly team.
You will be supported by a team of 6 Paediatric dietitians in the Nutrition & Dietetic Department and work alongside a neonatal speech and language therapist and physiotherapist in the neonatal service.
Main duties of the job
Main responsibilities will include:
- undertaking comprehensive nutritional assessments of neonates with complex nutritional needs, applying specialist knowledge of neonatal nutrition and prematurity
- advise on suitable management treatment plans for infants and their parents/carers on the neonatal unit/in outpatient clinics
- attend ward rounds and provide highly specialised clinical advice to the neonatal team
- participate in the evaluation, policy development and improvement of clinical practice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full clinical, managerial, education and development responsibilities please refer to the job description.
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.
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This advert is for Neonatal Dietitian with Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust in Dartford, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Dietitian role. The advertised salary is Dependant on experience. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Nov 2026.
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