The Children’s Community Dietetic Team is responsible for providing highly specialised dietetic advice and support to a complex caseload of infants, children, young people and their carers in a range of settings in the community.

Each dietitian is responsible for their own clinical caseload and clinical supervision will be given by the Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian. As well as providing dietary advice for a large range of nutritional needs, you will be expected to contribute to resources, audit and service development, as well as training for other health care professionals as necessary.

You will feel valued as a Community Paediatric Dietitian within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:  

• Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 
•  Free and plentiful on site-parking
•  Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
•  Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission 

·     To work with the Paediatric Lead Dietitian to deliver the Community Dietetic Service in West Essex

·     To manage a complex caseload, including allergy, faltering growth, fussy eating, feeding difficulties, Autistic Spectrum Disorders and gastric issues, such as IBS and Coeliac disease

·     To prioritise own workload to meet deadlines and demands of the service

·     To triage all referrals received in to the dietetic service

·     To provide the dietetic service in the community clinic or other appropriate community settings

·     To take a focused history from the child/young person/parent/carer

·     To make independent decisions about the individual treatment plan needed

·     To provide a written plan of care for the child/young person/parent/carer to refer to and follow

·     To educate and empower the child/young person/parent/carer to manage their own health needs

·     Registration with HCPC

·     Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, or equivalent

·     Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

·     Minimum 1 year clinical experience

·     Clinically competent to give specialist advice, treatment and dietary counselling to patients with diverse healthcare needs across the community

·     Ability to use clinical judgement and reasoning in assessing and evaluating complex patients

·     Competent IT and keyboard skills

·     Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbally and written

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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