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Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Paediatric Dietitian to join our expanding team of Paediatric Dietitians and Assistants to deliver the dietetic service to the children and young people on our caseload. 

The service is provided in a variety of settings including community hospital clinics, special schools, child development centre and patients own homes.  Your caseload will be varied and include allergy, autism, nutrition support and enteral feeding.

As part of your role, you will have the opportunity to develop your clinical leadership skills; you will provide supervision to the Band 6 Dietitians, Dietetic Assistant Practitioners and Dietetic Assistants and undertake project work to help to develop the service.   

You will regularly be required to travel therefore, access to a car for work purposes is essential.

In addition to this you will have the opportunity to plan and deliver training to other professionals from a variety of backgrounds e.g. health, education, and social services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Be responsible for a caseload of children with complex feeding difficulties
• Be responsible for a caseload of children on home enteral feeding, including those living in East Staffordshire.
• Use expert knowledge and experience to educate and support patients and their carers regarding their dietary management at home.
• Provide a dietetic service to children and their parents/carers attending out patients in a variety of settings, including: health centres, community hospitals, Special Schools and own home
• Provide specialist dietetic knowledge into multidisciplinary feeding clinics.
• On occasion provide cover outpatient clinics for other members of the team as necessary. Locations are varied and a flexible approach is essential. 
• Provide supervision and support the band 6 dietitians, dietetic assistant practitioner and dietetic assistants.
• Assist team leader with day to day management including conducting appraisals, contributing to service development, policy writing and to lead on delegated service development projects.
• Work with dietetic colleagues and other health care professionals to review and advance dietetic practice through participation in the development of evidence-based literature and resources (e.g. patient information leaflet, teaching aids), the development of guidelines / care pathways / policies / procedures etc.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.