Band 7: £54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum inclusive
PERMANENT
AVOIDANT RESTRICTIVE FOOD INTAKE DISORDER CASELOAD EATING DISORDER HOLISTIC MENTAL HEALTH NHS
Opportunity to work with a diverse range of pediatric feeding and eating disorders, allowing for professional growth and specialized expertise.
Collaboration within a multidisciplinary team, enabling holistic patient care and collective decision-making, fostering a strong support network.
Involvement in hands-on patient assessment and management, allowing for direct impact on children's health and well-being.
Engagement in educational sessions for families and healthcare professionals, enhancing community understanding of feeding and eating disorders.
Exposure to both outpatient and inpatient care settings, providing a comprehensive experience in various healthcare environments.
Contribution to evidence-based practice by utilizing specialized knowledge and implementing tailored dietary interventions.
The role is based in a renowned institution, Great Ormond Street Hospital, known for its commitment to child health and innovative practices.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a permanent Band 7 Highly Specialised Feeding and Eating Disorder Dietitian to join their Feeding and Eating Disorders Team and Mildred Creak Unit in London. The role involves working with children experiencing a variety of feeding and eating disorders, including Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorders (ARFID), Anorexia Nervosa, and other related mental health issues. The dietitian will be part of a multidisciplinary team, providing assessment and nutritional management for both outpatients and inpatients, delivering educational sessions, and ensuring a comprehensive dietetic service in accordance with clinical standards.
Responsibilities include managing a caseload of children, making clinical decisions on necessary nutritional support, maintaining patient records, and collaborating with healthcare professionals to ensure holistic patient care. The dietitian will also communicate complex dietary information to patients and their families, considering individual cultural and religious backgrounds. Active participation in ward rounds and effective discharge planning in coordination with local healthcare teams are essential components of the role.
Responsibilities include managing a caseload of children, making clinical decisions on necessary nutritional support, maintaining patient records, and collaborating with healthcare professionals to ensure holistic patient care. The dietitian will also communicate complex dietary information to patients and their families, considering individual cultural and religious backgrounds. Active participation in ward rounds and effective discharge planning in coordination with local healthcare teams are essential components of the role.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent Band 7 highly specialised feeding and eating disorder paediatric dietitian to work in the feeding and eating disorders team and the Mildred Creak Unit (child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit - Tier 4).
You will work with children with a range of presentations. This will include Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorders (ARFID), generalised feeding disorders, Anorexia Nervosa and other mental health diagnoses. You will work in an MDT comprising psychology, psychiatry, mental health nurses, speech and language therapist, occupational therapist.
You will be responsible for the assessment and nutritional management of children referred as outpatients and those on the inpatient unit. You will also take part in delivering nutritional educational sessions to families and healthcare professionals
- Responsible for the provision of a comprehensive and quality dietetic FEDS service for both inpatients and outpatients working to agreed standards, policies and procedures
- Using specialised knowledge to manage a caseload in feeding and eating disorders
- Assessment of the patient's needs and making clinical decisions regarding the necessary nutritional support and dietary interventions for all children in the caseload taking into account their diet history, growth and biochemical parameters and any relevant drug treatments
- Comparing normal nutritional requirements in childhood and interpreting these for the sick child according to the disease process to initiate and maintain a treatment plan
- attendance at ward rounds to take part in the decision-making about the patient's clinical care.
- Responsible for maintenance of patient records to comply with departmental standards
- Communicating complex information regarding dietary management to the multidisciplinary team to provide a holistic approach to patient care.
- Communicating, both verbally and with written/pictorial resources, with patients and carers regarding dietary management taking into account their ability to understand and being sensitive to ethnic, cultural and religious diversity
- Organising and planning for discharge necessitating communication with the local healthcare multidisciplinary team eg GP, health visitor, community paediatric nurses, community paediatrician, dietitian adjusting short and long term careplans
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