Highly Specialist Dietitian: Paediatric Metabolic and ketogenics

We are looking to appoint a Band 7 Highly Specialist Dietitian within the Children’s team on a temporary basis to cover maternity leave. This individual will be the dietetic lead for the Ketogenic service and will additionally work within the newly expanded metabolic team at Nottingham Children’s Hospital. We are seeking a proactive and innovative individual who has an interest in working in a specialist and learning-rich environment. The successful applicant will demonstrate compassion and empathy for our children, young people and their families in their work. The individual will be working within the neurology team to lead on the dietetic care of children requiring a medical ketogenic diet for intractable epilepsy. Additionally, the successful individual will be joining an expanding multi-professional team as we begin to collaborate with Leicester to form the East Midland’s Paediatric Metabolic Service.

If you would like to work in a friendly environment and are motivated and enthusiastic about making a difference to the care of patients, we would like to hear from you!

Main duties of the job:

• With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population.
• We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
• Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve.
• With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

The Nottingham Children’s Hospital (NCH) is based at the Queens Medical Centre campus and is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). We provide In-patient and out-patient care for children up to the age of 19 years old. With 97 beds, we care for around 40,000 children each year from Nottinghamshire and beyond, treating a full range of conditions, including planned and emergency treatment and surgery, Burns and Plastics, Neurological conditions, Oncology, Paediatric critical care, Renal conditions and transplantation, and Spinal and Orthopaedic care.

The Children’s Therapy team at NCH is a friendly and supportive department who work closely alongside the wider MDT, providing excellent evidence based care and innovative ways of working. Throughout NUH we have a diverse range of AHP and support staff who work together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached for further details.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: HCPC registration
• Experience: Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area; Experience of delegating to and supervising other members of the team; Analytical and judgement skill; Able to make decisions about the treatment needs of highly complex patients; Lead on the development of improvements in service delivery and clinical practice using evidence based practice to recommend changes.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors.
• Planning & organisational skill: Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand.
• Other: Undertake out of hours duties as required.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.