Clinical Lead Dietitian - Community Paediatrics

Job overview

A rare and exciting opportunity has arise in the Dudley Community  Dietetic Team, for a Clinical Lead Dietitian for Paediatrics in the community.

The Community Dietetic Team is a small, friendly, specialist team of Dietitians  based at Stourbridge Health and Social Care Centre. The team is part of the Dudley Rehabilitation Service.  There are many training courses available, to develop your clinical and  leaderships skills.

The successful candidate will work as an advanced specialist Dietitian managing a caseload complex home enterally tube fed patients as well as patients with a variety of conditions and dietetic needs.

The post holder will also provide leadership, training, supervision and appraisal for junior staff. Working along side the other Clinical Lead Dietitians in the community you conduct audits and patient feedback initiatives to help develop the service.

Part time applicants are encouraged to apply and flexible working arrangement will also be considered.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Responsibilities include:

• To work autonomously as a specialist Community Dietitian for paediatrics
• To undertake and complete comprehensive holistic assessments of patients with a variety of conditions and dietetic needs
• To work closely with other members of the specialist MDTs to provide an integrated service to paediatrics within the community.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions using appropriate outcome measures to ensure effective intervention.
• To lead on service developments and ways of working for the team.
• To supervise, educate and assess the performance of Dietetic students
• Responsible for the nutritional care given to community patients, in a variety of settings including their own homes, care homes and community clinics.
• To educate and counsel patients, carers and groups about the importance of nutrition
• To calculate and monitor artificial enteral feeding regimens and monitor people who are receiving home enteral feeds, in care homes and their own homes, changing these feeds as needed and liaising with the home enteral feeding supplier
• To monitor and assess gastrostomy sites reporting problems to relevant nursing staff and arranging training as appropriate
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.