Senior Paediatric Dietitian

Paediatric Dietitian

Health and Care Jersey is seeking a keen and dedicated Paediatric Dietitian to work alongside our children's therapy teams in the Child Development & Therapy Centre. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced dietitian with a passion for delivering high quality, family centred care to infants, children and young people with a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions.

The successful candidate will manage a varied and complex paediatric caseload, working autonomously to provide expert nutritional assessment, treatment and advice. As a highly valued member of the service you will contribute to service developments, quality improvement and the ongoing advancement of paediatric dietetic care across Jersey.

To work as a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian, providing expert clinical knowledge, autonomous decision-making, and strategic input to manage a diverse paediatric caseload with a variety of acute and chronic diseases across Health and Care Jersey (HCJ).

Act as a clinical expert in the assessment, diagnosis and management of infants, children and young people with:

• Faltering growth, complex feeding issues, food allergies/ intolerances
• Coeliac disease, IBD, GI disorders
• Diabetes (type
  1)
• Neurodivergence and enteral feeding (including home enteral care)
• Neonatal nutrition (including NICU/SCBU support, breast milk fortication, growth monitoring, parenteral nutrition input)
• Outpatients and community paediatric clinics.

The post holder will also take responsibility for developing the service, supporting governance and providing specialist advice across the wider health and social care system.

The post holder is expected to work independently as the sole paediatric dietitian within the service, with access to professional supervision and peer support via external networks and/ or remote colleagues.

Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.

To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.

For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.

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