Specialist Paediatric Dietitian

Job summary

Are you interested in working as a Paediatric Specialist Dietitian for University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust?

An opportunity has arisen for two Permanent Band 6 Paediatric Dietitians to join our friendly, supportive and forward thinking paediatric dietetic team. The paediatric team delivers services across University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) and the team are well integrated as part of the Children's Hospitals at both Royal Deby Hospital and Queens Hospital Burton.

As a teaching hospital we have a wealth of experience across many clinical areas, and we work closely with our tertiary centres in the surrounding area for shared care patients.

We are constantly looking at ways to empower our team, drive Quality Improvement initiatives and provide a strong, positive team culture, with emphasis on wellbeing and resilience within the department. We aim to celebrate and cultivate colleagues within our department and actively look for opportunities for social inclusion.

This is a Cross site vacancy based at Royal Derby Hospital and Queens Hospital Burton.

Main duties of the job

The department currently provides a service to multiple areas that you would expect within an acute trust including food sensitivity and allergy, coeliac disease, cardiac conditions, Cystic Fibrosis, Metabolic conditions, PKU as well as inpatient and outpatient services and children who requiring Home Enteral Feeding.

We provide support to the epilepsy service mananging ketogenic diets, offer expert advice into a feeding clinics and offer a comprehensive service to children with diabetes. There is scope for rotation within these paediatric roles with one post initially being based at RDH full time, whereas the second post will split their time between QHB and RDH.

You will work as an active member of the Paediatric Dietetic team and wider department. We are a welcoming, forward thinking and supportive team of paediatric dietitians with support from dietetic assistant and dietetic assistant practitioners. We are routinely involved in project work and service improvement and follow evidence-based practice.

We pride ourselves on having a very close relationship with the wider MDTs within the hospital, including working with consultants, specialist nurses, speech and language therapy, physiotherapists, psychologists and the play team. This gives us the opportunity for advanced clinical supervision as respected members of the team.

Closing date of applications: 26 January 2023

Interview date: 09 February 2023

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
• We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust - over 3,300 per week
• An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day - 6th largest in the country
• Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
• We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
• We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
• We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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