Specialist Paediatric Home Enteral Feeding Dietitian, Band 6

Job summary

Do you want to be part of an award-winning, innovative, friendly team?

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS foundation Trust Home Enteral Feeding Team (HEFT) has several exciting opportunities to join their well-established, experienced team following a successful bid for further expansion.

We are looking for a Dietitian with skills in Enteral feeding to join our dynamic team.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Paediatric Home Enteral Feed Dietitian in you will:

- have an exciting, challenging and varied caseload within unique settings, offering specialist care in the community to patients in their own homes, schools and respite centre throughout the county

- work as an autonomous practitioner providing person centred care for a dedicated caseload of enterally fed children

- aiming to achieve the best quality of life for children and their families at home

- work within the HEF MDT and with other professionals including: paediatricians, specialist nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and school staff, to name a few

- have the opportunity to extend your scope of practice with practical tube competencies

- utilise well developed communication skills to liaise with members of diverse MDTs

- have the opportunity to undertake research and further post-graduate study at Master level

- have the opportunity of flexible working with the option of some remote home working as requested

Well-being support is available to you to help manage more complex caseloads.

About us

The HEFT is well-established, with over 20 years of experience in delivering high quality enteral feed care to patients in Gloucestershire. The team is multidisciplinary; including Dietitians, Enteral nutrition Nurse Specialists, Dietetic assistants and admin support. Each team is led by a dedicated, highly experienced and skilled leader who is able to provide you with the support, knowledge and skills needed to develop you as a member this dynamic team.

The HEFT can offer you a varied caseload of patients. The team care for both adult and paediatric patients, allowing you to develop your knowledge and skills across a range of clinical areas. We cover unique settings including a third level disability college and a highly specialist neurology centre. The teams is actively involved with research, both in-house and national projects. We conduct regular audit and service development work which has been presented nationally (at BAPEN) and internationally (at ESPEN congress).

The team can offer a number of unique opportunities including access to an educational bursary, apprenticeship opportunities and a preceptorship programme. Active involvement in further post-graduate education and research is encouraged, to ensure you are developing skills across all pillars of dietetic practice. From when you join the team, we offer a structured competency framework as well as having an in-team educational lead to help support your development. We are committed to investing in your CPD.