Advanced Paediatric DietitianinWestcliff-On-SeainWestcliff-On-SeaPUBLISHED FRI 14 MAR 2025
In this role, you'll lead clinical initiatives, deliver expert advice on neonatal nutrition, home enteral feeding, and support families facing challenges such as fussy eating and allergies. Your expertise will empower you to manage your own caseload as you work alongside families and healthcare professionals to create tailored treatment plans—ensuring every child receives the best possible support. If you value compassion, respect, and excellence, we invite you to bring your skills to our integrated children’s dietetic service and help shape the future of paediatric care in our community.
Are you an experienced, forward-thinking, dietitian looking for your next career move? An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic dietitian to join the paediatric team based at Southend Hospital to deliver a specialist dietetic service to both the inpatient and outpatient children within the local area.
You will have the opportunity to review and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams in shaping improvements in dietetic support for children and families whilst drawing on recommendations, best practice guidelines and national guidance.
You will be part of a well led, dynamic and friendly MSE wide team consisting of children's Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Dietitians and Speech therapists, who constantly strive for integrated working - optimising patient care and team morale.
You will be responsible for the delivery of highly specialist dietetic support to children and young people within Mid and South Essex NHS Trusts. The post holder will be based at Southend Hospital but maybe required to offer support on other sites within MSE at times.
The role involves :
- Working as a team lead
- Providing a high level of clinical advice to patients in the following groups:a. Patients receiving home enteral feedingb. Neonatal nutritionc. Mixed general outpatients, including fussy eating, allergies, faltering growth.
- Provide dietetic input to the paediatric ward and neonatal unit.
- Promoting dietetics and the role of the dietitian.
Specialist skills will be used to manage their own caseload, working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, without direct supervision. They will be confident undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, developing and delivering individualised treatment plans.
You will work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, working closely alongside families, Consultants, Nursing Teams and AHP's to provide evidence-based care.
The post holder will be involved in developing the children's dietetic service, drawing on recommendations and best practice guidelines and will be expected to partake in evidence-based audit and research projects.
About us
The Children's dietetic service is an integral part of the Trustwide Children's Therapies team and we work closely with other therapy colleagues.
We have site based team leads, as well as an MSE wide Children's Therapy lead and Head of Therapies. We also work closely with our adult counterparts.
We are looking for a dietitian who prides themselves in providing excellence, is respectful, as well as being compassionate.
See Job Description and Personal Specification for further details on specific roles and responsibilities.
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