Dietician

NHS; Oxford; On-site; Full time

Job description

Location: Oxfordshire (can be flexible with base)

Ward/Dept: Childrens Integrated Therapies - SLT

Hours: Full time Up to 37.5 hours per week

Shift Pattern: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm

Pay Rates Day: £22.99 per hour

Why might this job interest you?

Oxford Health NHS FT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Main duties of the job

To provide dietetic advice and specialist clinical skills to home enterally fed (HEF) paediatric patients, with a range of conditions in the primary care setting. This includes the assessment and treatment of patients and education and will involve working independently and as part of a dietetic team. Being an integral member of the MDT to provide a flexible, prioritised service based on clinical need is also a key element of the job.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression: Access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.

Work-life Balance: Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave.

Opportunity & Access: Over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.

Job responsibilities

1. To provide a highly specialist evidence-based nutrition and dietetic service for Oxfordshire community paediatric HEF patients. This includes working collaboratively with the existing community dietetic team, supporting junior staff, and linking with MDTs, to ensure a holistic approach to patient care via digital, telephone consultations or visits to home or school.
2. To design individual client-centred treatment plans. This will involve nutritional assessment and calculation of nutritional requirements based on the interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition, and diet history.
3. To act as an independent practitioner and be responsible for a complex caseload of paediatric patients. To utilise specialist clinical skills to manage this specialist caseload of babies, children, and young adults, identifying, assessing, and treating nutrition-related conditions and selecting the appropriate type of therapy for effective treatment.
4. To provide individualised information about relevant dietary needs such as weaning, thickened fluids, modified texture diets, blended diets and risk feeding in conjunction with the speech and language Therapist (SALT). To consider local prescribing guidelines and feed budgets when considering feed or formula choices and onward prescriptions.
5. To be an integral member of the MDT for decision making and capacity assessments for patients regarding non-oral feeding or progression to long term non-oral feeding, risk feeding or withdrawal of non-oral feeding.

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous paediatric experience at B5/B6 level in current role or clinical placements.
• Knowledge of Enteral Feeding/Nutritional Support (PEG, NG & PEG/J feeds) and usage of specialist paediatric feeds.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Nutrition / Dietetics degree or post graduate diploma or equivalent.
• Valid HCPC registration.

Additional

• UK Driving License/Use of a car for work essential.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.