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Job requirements
Essential
19 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups.
- Skills
Ability to demonstrate behaviour change facilitation/ motivational interviewing.
- Skills
Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care.
- Skills
Leadership skills.
- Skills
Accurate anthropometric measurements and skills eg weights, heights, skinfold calipers to assess patients nutritional status and devise clinical plan.
- Skills
Ability to provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients.
- Skills
Proven Audit skills
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To have effective presentation skills.
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Regularly undertakes R&D activity eg. Critical Appraisal.
- Skills
Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality.
- Experience
Significant experience working in Nutrition and Dietetics and experience within paediatrics.
- Experience
Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a team.
- Experience
Experience of working with HEF patients
- Experience
Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to graduate standard in area of speciality.
- Experience
Experience of Supervision of junior members of clinical staff.
- Qualifications
BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification.
- Qualifications
Paediatric Dietetics Training
- Qualifications
HCPC registered
- Qualifications
In-depth knowledge in nutrition support and paediatrics.
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
To have participated in research.
- Qualifications
Member of relevant special clinical interest group
- Qualifications
Supervision training.
- Qualifications
Qualification in Paediatrics
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our dynamic team!
As part of the largest NHS acute trust in England and one of London’s busiest tertiary children’s hospitals, we provide a wide range of specialist paediatric services including Surgery, Cystic Fibrosis, Gastroenterology, Allergy, Neonatology, Neurology, Diabetes, and PCCU. Our patient population is culturally diverse, covering both some of the most affluent and socially deprived areas in the country.
This senior paediatric role focuses on our well-established Home Enteral Tube Feeding (HEF) service. You will work as an integral member of the HEF team, which includes 2.1 WTE Band 7 Dietitians, and participate in joint SLT clinics as well as school clinics at local specialist schools.
We are looking for someone with strong clinical paediatric dietetic experience, ideally including acute paediatrics. Excellent communication skills and a passion for working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team are essential. You will join a friendly and supportive department of 31 paediatric dietitians across three acute sites.
We offer a well-established programme of quality improvement and research, and fully support CPD opportunities—making this a fantastic role to further develop your career.
Main duties of the job
To work within the multidisciplinary team and Integrated Service for Children with Disabilities, to provide highly specialized dietetic advice to children and young people receiving Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) in Tower Hamlets ;
To provide outpatient clinics in these areas. Also to undertake home visits and school clinics/visits.
The post holder would undertake research and audit on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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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 Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Dietitian role. The advertised salary is £58133.00 to £65261.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Nov 2026.
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