Band 5 Paediatric Dietitian

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will provide a community dietetic service to children and young people across Birmingham, working in clinics, child development centres, schools, respite settings and family homes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertaking nutritional assessments and developing, implementing and reviewing individualised dietetic care plans.
• Managing and prioritising your own clinical caseload, seeking support from senior dietitians when required.
• Assessing and supporting children requiring enteral nutrition, including monitoring growth, hydration, nutritional adequacy and feed tolerance.
• Providing practical dietetic advice, education and support to children, families and carers.
• Communicating with other professionals to support effective and coordinated patient care.
• Delivering nutrition education and training to families, groups and other healthcare professionals.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to clinical governance, audit, research and service development.

Person specification

Qualifications and training

Essential criteria

• Dietitian registered with Health Professions Council (HCPC)
• Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
• Evidence of continual professional development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of clinical dietetics
• Evidence of interest in clinical paediatrics
• Evidence (either observational or own practice) of developing, implementing and evaluating projects
• Evidence of multi disciplinary working

Skills

Essential criteria

• Understanding of community dietetics
• Evidence of ability to generate written communication that is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
• Evidence of an ability to plan and manage own t
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge and application of up-to-date evidence based clinical trends and practices in paediatric dietetics
• Demonstrate knowledge of application of Health Professions Council Code of Conduct and Standards of Proficiency for Dietitians

Personal Qualitites

Essential criteria

• An ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately

Other

Essential criteria

• An ability to travel to different venues within the city on a daily basis and safely transport equipment required for the role

UK Home Office Visa Sponsorship requirements

In accordance with UK Home Office requirements, Band 2 clinical and non-clinical roles and Band 3 Non-Clinical roles are not eligible for sponsorship.

Please note that the majority of non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Band 3 - 6) with the exception of those which appear on this list -