Job overview

Are you a paediatric dietitian passionate about working with children and young people?

Would you like to build your experience in a rewarding and supportive senior role?

We have a flexible, fixed-term opportunity to join our small, friendly and experienced community team supporting children and young people with complex feeding needs across West Berkshire. 

You’ll work with children who are enterally fed or have feeding difficulties with a designated caseload so post qualified paediatric and enteral feeding experience is essential. 

The role includes:  

• Working with children in community settings including home visits, schools and hospitals 
• A variety of face-to-face and telephone clinics across West Berkshire with some home working available 
• Being part of a friendly, experienced and supportive team, meeting regularly at our attractive University of Reading base to collaborate and share learning.  

Perhaps you’re an experienced Band 6 ready to build your Band 7 experience, or you might be an established Band 7 dietitian who will appreciate this varied, flexible role in a welcoming team.

Your working pattern will be 22.5 hrs/week within our core Monday – Friday hours. 

Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert clinical dietary and nutritional assessment, management, and education for children and young people (CYP) with complex needs requiring enteral feeding.
• Manage and balance nutritional requirements alongside co-morbidities, including calculating nutritional needs through interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, and clinical conditions.
• Deliver specialist skills and knowledge to support CYP with disabilities and/or complex needs who are at risk of nutritional imbalance.
• Offer specialist supervision and support to newly qualified dietitians and students within the team, sharing expertise to promote best practice.
• Set up and manage feeding delivery accounts and equipment for enterally fed CYP through home delivery companies, ensuring financial prudence and effective resource use.
• Collaborate with Community Children’s Nurses, Specialist School Nurses, Special Needs Schools, Primary Care, Short Break settings, Children’s Services, and other relevant agencies to develop, plan, and implement individualised care plans.
• Work within the policies and procedures of Berkshire Safeguarding Children’s Board and Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT), prioritising attendance at case conferences, reviews, and planning meetings. Responsible for preparing case conference and court reports as required, contributing to safeguarding all children.

Working for our organisation

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.

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We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.

Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.

If you need help with your application, please contact us on [email protected]

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