We are looking for a Band 6 dietitian to to join our friendly paediatric team at Warwick Hospital. We are ideally looking for a dietitian with paediatric and home enteral feeding experience.
Role
If interested candidates have limited experience in paediatrics, we may consider offering this role at Band 5 initially with progression to Band 6 pending completion of relevant paediatric dietetic competencies. Clinical support will be provided. To be considered for a developmental role option the successful candidate must meet the following criteria:
- a new graduate who has completed a specialist paediatric placement
OR
- an experienced dietitian with transferable skills from another clinical area
You will be working with infants, children and adolescents in Warwickshire. This role includes outpatient, inpatient and community settings including a home enteral feeding caseload. See the post outline for details.
You need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Working as a member of the dietetic team and with other healthcare professionals, you will deliver an efficient and evidence-based dietetic service.
You will be based at Warwick Hospital but will be required to travel across the county of Warwickshire for meetings, training, team support and possible countywide caseload, therefore must be a car user or have access to suitable transport options.
The successful candidate will have a presence at the office base and for in-person care but the Trust also supports flexible and hybrid working.
The Department has excellent administrative support and IT facilities. We use electronic patient records.
The Department trains student dietitians (A, B and C placements) and you will participate in their supervision on all placements.
This Post Holder Will
Work as an autonomous practitioner to advise on the dietary management of patients on a specialist caseload.
With appropriate post graduate training assess, treat and manage own caseload of patients in the designated specialist area, with support as necessary from senior colleagues.
Promote the ethos of self-management and prevention to patients, staff and carers to prevent nutritional problems, medical conditions and complications.
Provide advice, training and support to other health & social care professionals.
Liaise with dietetic colleagues and other members of multidisciplinary teams as necessary e.g. medical, nursing, catering and other health and social professionals.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paula Corbett Job title: Paediatric Team Leader Email address:
[email protected]01926 600818 option 3
