Band 6 Paediatric Dietitian inHarlow inHarlow PUBLISHED WED 13 NOV 2024

Would you like the opportunity to develop your community paediatric skills as part of a small but friendly department? We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about working in paediatrics to join our team.

This role involves seeing children and their families in community clinics, offering a mixture of face to face, video, telephone and email support to patients, GPs and other community health professionals, including the 0-19 Family Wellbeing Team.

The Childrens Community Dietetic Team is responsible for providing expert advice and support for children with food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties, restricted eating including children with autistic spectrum disorder, micronutrient deficiencies, as well gastro issues such as, constipation, IBS and annual reviews for coeliac disease.

This permanent Band 6 post plays an integral role within the overall Community Dietetic Team, you will be responsible for your own clinical caseload, clinical supervision will be given by the Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian. As well as providing dietary advice for a large range of nutritional needs, you will be expected to contribute to resources, audit and service development, as well as training for other health care professionals as necessary.

This role will involve working closely with the Paediatric Lead Dietitian to develop the existing Community Dietetic Service in West Essex to ensure delivery of safe, efficient and effective services.

The role requires you to have a good knowledge and practical experience of nutrition and dietetics. You will have some knowledge of working with children and families and ideally experience of working in the community, although this is not essential.

You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage your own workload under pressure to meet the deadlines and demands of the service

About us

You will feel valued as aCommunity Paediatric Dietitianwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free and plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality CommissionThe Ideal Candidate
  • Registration with HCPC
  • Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, or equivalent
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Minimum 1 year clinical (including 6 months paediatric experience)
  • Clinically competent to give specialist advice, treatment and dietary counselling to patients with diverse healthcare needs across the community
  • Ability to use clinical judgement and reasoning in assessing and evaluating complex patients
  • Competent IT and keyboard skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbally and written

  Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.