Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Leave)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (To support a weekend on call service on a rota)
- Job ref
- 284-25-7380424-DMUT
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Children's Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Paediatric Dietitian
Band 7
Job overview
We are excited to offer the fantastic opportunity for a qualified Dietitian to join our friendly and supportive team of Paediatric Dietitians. We would love to hear from you if you have a wide range of post registration clinical paediatric dietetic experience gained either in an acute or community setting, and have an ambition to work in a specialist tertiary hospital setting.
You will be working alongside a team of friendly, supportive and experienced Paediatric Dietitians and covering our general paediatric caseload, including inpatients and dietetic led outpatient clinics. You will be required to provide leadership to 2 Band 6 Dietitians and a Dietetic assistant working within the specialty. The post is offered as a 0.5WTE part time fixed term for 12 months, the days can be agreed with the successful candidate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work alongside a Band 6 Dietitian, Dietetic Assistant and the MDT to provide dietetic support to infants and children under the general paediatrics teams , providing high quality and safe care.
You will be an integral member of the MDT, contributing to ward rounds and MDT meetings and attending clinics. You will have opportunity to develop the service, and will provide leadership and supervision to Band 6 Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with UK professional registration details which is essential to be suitable for this position.
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nutrition/ Dietetic degree
- HCPC Registration as Dietitian
- Evidence of CPD relevant to paediatric dietetics
Desirable criteria
- Completion of Masters level Paediatric Dietetics module(s) or equivalent experience and training gained through on the job training
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience of independently managing a range of clinical paediatric inpatient paediatric patients
- Experience of independently managing a range of complex paediatric outpatients
- Experience of providing leadership to others
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of Service development and QI work
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly developed team working
- Able to evidence working in line with Trust values
- Able to analyse clinical, nutritional and biochemical data to inform treatment plan
- Experience of being an autonomous practitioner
- Experience of supporting undergraduate Dietetic student training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Stead
- Job title
- Team Lead Highly Specialist Paediatric Dietitian
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01213338022
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