Community Paediatric Dietitian inNottingham inNottingham PUBLISHED 9 DEC 2023
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Job Purpose
To provide a nutrition and dietetic service for infants, children and young people in the local community.
To provide professional dietetic advice and liaise with primary health care teams, community health professionals and other local agencies.
To promote evidence based dietary guidelines in relation to maternal and child health.
To provide education and training for health care professionals, other relevant professions, student dietitians, patients and the general public.
Dimensions
To mentor and train clinical staff and student dietitian.
To be an expert source of nutritional advice in paediatrics for patients, families, nursing and other health professionals.
Support appropriate patients registered with Nottingham City GP Practices, as defined by inclusion criteria for the service.
To offer a specialist resource to health care professionals working in Nottingham City
.
Key Responsibilities
1. Clinical
Receiving and interpreting referrals from a variety of health professionals in accordance with the referral criteria.
Undertaking dietetic clinics in a variety of primary care and community settings.
Providing telephone consultations to parents and children as required.
Communicating relevant dietary and lifestyle advice effectively, in an understandable form supported by appropriate literature/ diet sheets.
Utilising counselling, motivational and negotiating skills to facilitate behaviour change.
Communicating therapeutic dietary advice and treatment recommendations to a variety of health professionals using a combination of verbal and written reports.
Maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records.
Managing own clinical caseload unsupervised.
Recording patient notes using a paperless system (SystmOne) and undertaking additional data collection e.g. use of other packages to collect patient data statistics.
Use of dietary analysis package to analyse patient food diaries - DietPlan.
Contributing to regular paediatric team clinical supervision sessions.
2. Education and Training
Empowering front line health professionals to give dietary advice to their patients.
Participating in the delivery of evidence-based training on maternal, infant and childhood nutrition, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials and evaluation.
Training and assessment of dietetic students during their community dietetic placement.
Participating in the training programmes of other health professionals and students e.g. shadowing opportunities, tutorials, lectures, workshops and seminars.
Responding to ad-hoc requests from professionals or patient support groups for dietary education sessions and displays on a variety of topics.
3. Professional Advice and Liaison
Working with primary health care teams and other professional groups to ensure consistent and appropriate nutrition and dietetic advice is available throughout the community.
Promoting evidence-based dietary guidelines for healthy eating and therapeutic diets.
Responding to requests for dietetic input to specific health events or to individual groups requiring information.
Acting as a source of unbiased, up-to-date information on nutrition to health professionals and other agencies.
4. Competence to Practice
Meeting the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and maintaining professional registration.
Working within the Health and Care Professions Council, British Dietetic Association and local codes of conduct.
Participating in professional or nutrition-related research, evaluation and audit.
A commitment to continuing professional development, including the undertaking of relevant formal and informal postgraduate training and collection of evidence of competency to practice.
Participating in individual performance reviews.
Involvement in risk management assessments as required.
Complying with Nottingham CityCare policies, procedures and statutory regulations.
Would you like an opportunity to develop your dietetic career as a Dietitian working in community paediatrics? We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our friendly team of innovative community paediatric dietitians.
The clinical element of this role will involve work clinically in the community paediatric dietetic service offering expert advice and support for children with food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties and obesity including children with autistic spectrum disorder. It will involve seeing children and their families in community clinics and offering video, telephone and email support to patients, GPs and other community health professionals, including collaboration with the public health nutritionist in the 0-19 Childrens community nursing team.
This permanent Band 6 post plays an integral role within the overall Community Dietetic team, supporting delivery of training to students, Band 5 dietitian, Band 4 dietetic assistant and other health care professionals such as the 0 -19 service, alongside service development, sourcing and developing relevant resources.
The role is suitable for those looking to progress their career and gain experience in community dietetics at a senior level. If all of the essential criteria is not met, we may consider making this a development post for the right candidate
The role requires you to have good knowledge and practical experience in nutrition and dietetics. You will need to have some knowledge of working with children and families and ideally experience of working in the community, this it is not essential.
This role will involve working closely with the Clinical Service Lead to develop the existing community service to ensure delivery of safe, efficient and effective services.
You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage your own workload under pressure.
We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about their speciality. At Nottingham City care we encourage our staff to develop and will support training opportunities.
Job Purpose
To provide a nutrition and dietetic service for infants, children and young people in the local community.
To provide professional dietetic advice and liaise with primary health care teams, community health professionals and other local agencies.
To promote evidence based dietary guidelines in relation to maternal and child health.
To provide education and training for health care professionals, other relevant professions, student dietitians, patients and the general public.
Dimensions
To mentor and train clinical staff and student dietitian.
To be an expert source of nutritional advice in paediatrics for patients, families, nursing and other health professionals.
Support appropriate patients registered with Nottingham City GP Practices, as defined by inclusion criteria for the service.
To offer a specialist resource to health care professionals working in Nottingham City
.
Key Responsibilities
1. Clinical
Receiving and interpreting referrals from a variety of health professionals in accordance with the referral criteria.
Undertaking dietetic clinics in a variety of primary care and community settings.
Providing telephone consultations to parents and children as required.
Communicating relevant dietary and lifestyle advice effectively, in an understandable form supported by appropriate literature/ diet sheets.
Utilising counselling, motivational and negotiating skills to facilitate behaviour change.
Communicating therapeutic dietary advice and treatment recommendations to a variety of health professionals using a combination of verbal and written reports.
Maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient records.
Managing own clinical caseload unsupervised.
Recording patient notes using a paperless system (SystmOne) and undertaking additional data collection e.g. use of other packages to collect patient data statistics.
Use of dietary analysis package to analyse patient food diaries - DietPlan.
Contributing to regular paediatric team clinical supervision sessions.
2. Education and Training
Empowering front line health professionals to give dietary advice to their patients.
Participating in the delivery of evidence-based training on maternal, infant and childhood nutrition, incorporating the provision of relevant educational materials and evaluation.
Training and assessment of dietetic students during their community dietetic placement.
Participating in the training programmes of other health professionals and students e.g. shadowing opportunities, tutorials, lectures, workshops and seminars.
Responding to ad-hoc requests from professionals or patient support groups for dietary education sessions and displays on a variety of topics.
3. Professional Advice and Liaison
Working with primary health care teams and other professional groups to ensure consistent and appropriate nutrition and dietetic advice is available throughout the community.
Promoting evidence-based dietary guidelines for healthy eating and therapeutic diets.
Responding to requests for dietetic input to specific health events or to individual groups requiring information.
Acting as a source of unbiased, up-to-date information on nutrition to health professionals and other agencies.
4. Competence to Practice
Meeting the requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council and maintaining professional registration.
Working within the Health and Care Professions Council, British Dietetic Association and local codes of conduct.
Participating in professional or nutrition-related research, evaluation and audit.
A commitment to continuing professional development, including the undertaking of relevant formal and informal postgraduate training and collection of evidence of competency to practice.
Participating in individual performance reviews.
Involvement in risk management assessments as required.
Complying with Nottingham CityCare policies, procedures and statutory regulations.
Would you like an opportunity to develop your dietetic career as a Dietitian working in community paediatrics? We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our friendly team of innovative community paediatric dietitians.
The clinical element of this role will involve work clinically in the community paediatric dietetic service offering expert advice and support for children with food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties and obesity including children with autistic spectrum disorder. It will involve seeing children and their families in community clinics and offering video, telephone and email support to patients, GPs and other community health professionals, including collaboration with the public health nutritionist in the 0-19 Childrens community nursing team.
This permanent Band 6 post plays an integral role within the overall Community Dietetic team, supporting delivery of training to students, Band 5 dietitian, Band 4 dietetic assistant and other health care professionals such as the 0 -19 service, alongside service development, sourcing and developing relevant resources.
The role is suitable for those looking to progress their career and gain experience in community dietetics at a senior level. If all of the essential criteria is not met, we may consider making this a development post for the right candidate
The role requires you to have good knowledge and practical experience in nutrition and dietetics. You will need to have some knowledge of working with children and families and ideally experience of working in the community, this it is not essential.
This role will involve working closely with the Clinical Service Lead to develop the existing community service to ensure delivery of safe, efficient and effective services.
You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage your own workload under pressure.
We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about their speciality. At Nottingham City care we encourage our staff to develop and will support training opportunities.
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