Paediatric Dietician

Job overview

We require a Paediatrics Dietitian to join our friendly department of Dietitians providing the nutrition and dietetic service to Hounslow Borough.

The Children’s Community Dietetic team is responsible for providing highly specialist dietetic advice in a diverse range of nutritional areas. To support to a complex caseload of infants, children, young people 0-18years and their carers in a range of settings including clinics, community venues, special needs schools and in the patients’ own homes.  Each Dietitian is responsible for their own clinical caseload – clinical supervision is provided by the Band 7 Paediatric Dietitian. There will be 3 members of Paediatrics Dietitians in the Hounslow team. To provide training on a range of nutritional areas to health professionals and staff from other agencies.  To contribute to service development, evidence-based policy and guidelines procedure development and participate in audit and research.

Main duties of the job

• To manage a complex caseload within Hounslow Paediatric Community, primarily in a clinic setting including allergy, faltering growth, home enteral feeding, autism, weight management, metabolic and neurological conditions affecting child development.  •    To work as an independent practitioner and be responsible for managing and prioritising a clinic caseload •    To undertake comprehensive dietetic assessments, including patients who have barriers to communication, using a range of methods, including interview skills, calculation of nutritional requirements and anthropometrical measurements.  •    To undertake nutritional counselling with children and their families/carers including:

➢ Communication of complex nutritional information and adapting information for a wide range of learning abilities.  ➢ Discussion around sensitive, and difficult to accept information e.g commencement of tube feeding.  ➢ Use of motivational interviewing techniques and psychological behaviour management for motivation, empowerment and negotiation of a treatment plan and adapting as appropriate for children with complex communication issues, learning disabilities and challenging behaviours.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.