Community Children's Dietitian

Doyou want the exciting opportunity to join our paediatric team in First Dietitians? First Community Health and Care are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic person to manage a paediatric caseload including home enterally fed patients, complex community patients and clinics.

Join our friendly team of 19 dietitians, dietetic assistants and administrators delivering adult and childrens services across east Surrey and parts of West Sussex. The post holder will need to have excellent communication skills and clinical skills covering nutrition support, tube feeding, general paediatric dietetics and more complex special needs. This role will also support student training placements.

You will support the team to continue to deliver excellent patient care based on the needs of the local community. This is a great opportunity to learn and develop your paediatric dietetic skills within a friendly, supportive and innovative team of dietitians.

You will manage a caseload of HEF patients, providing specialist nutritional assessment, support, and ongoing monitoring in the community setting.

You will have regular general clinics and clinics in special schools.

You will work as a part of a multiagency team (including community paediatricians, acute paediatricians, community nurses, SLT, school nurses, health visitors etc) and have regular liaison with tertiary centres, special schools and social care.

You may have children under safeguarding plans and be a part of the core groups and multiagency support networks managing these cases.

We run different parent education groups for conditions such as complex feeding/ARFID and cow's milk protein allergy that you will be involved in delivering.

The dietetic team undertakes regular student placements from different universities, and they all spend some time in the paediatric team. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to service development.

Do you want to be part of an organisation that was rated best provider of NHS care to work for nationwide? (2023 staff survey results)

First Community is a staff owned social enterprise rated Good by CQC, which delivers NHS community services across east Surrey and parts of West Sussex. We are looking for individuals who share our values First-rate care, First-rate people, First-rate value.

First Community is a great place to work, everyone has a voice and is supported to develop their career to its full potential. We offer all our staff: NHS terms and conditions, high quality training and development opportunities, flexible working to enable a good work-life balance, an inclusive and friendly work environment, an NHS pension, flexible retirement options and various employee benefits.

Please talk to us before applying or at interview about the flexibility you need. We may not be able to meet your needs exactly, but we do promise to fully consider your request and meet your needs where possible. Please note, flexible working options may vary depending on the role.

At First Community we welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities. We ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments.

Sustainability is integral to First Community achieving the NHS Net Zero target.

The post holder is responsible for managing a paediatric caseload and contributing to the First Dietitians Team for First Community Health and Care.

Responsibility for providing clinics (face to face and virtual) and domiciliary visits within First Dietitians localities where you will assess nutritional problems and manage and treat children with medical conditions requiring nutritional management.

This includes to:

• Manage a caseload of home enterally fed and complex community paediatric patients.
• Undertake child protection cases as required - attend team around the family, core groups & case conferences and ensure nutritional needs are highlighted and actioned with the support of the children's safeguarding team and senior colleagues.
• Work autonomously as a dietitian but also to be part of the wider paediatric MDT to provide holistic, appropriate patient care, even if they are part of a different organisation.
• Liaise with other dietitians and HCPs from the local acute trust and tertiary care centres, possibly providing shared care for patients.
• Act as source of expertise to members of Secondary/Primary Health Care Paediatric Teams, other health professionals, local authority professionals and community groups.
• Develop and provide nutrition education and training to professionals within our locality, student dietitians and possibly community groups.
• Support the development of paediatric skills within the department.

When completing your application please refer to both the Application Guide and full Job Description & Person Specification - these can be found…