Job overview

·         To provide specialist dietetic input to the diabetes service and also to enable the team to meet the Diabetes Best Practice Tariff.

·         Provide highly specialist extended scope diabetes education and advice to children and their parents or carers

·         To educate and train other health care workers and professionals to give evidence based nutritional and diabetes education advice.

·         To provide a comprehensive dietetic service to children and young people with diabetes up to the age of 19 years

Main duties of the job

·         To be an integral member of the Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes multidisciplinary service team

·         Provided dietetic input at multidisciplinary diabetes clinics a variety of hospital and community settings

·         Educate and support children as in-patients with newly diagnosed and existing diabetes as required in line with Best Practice Tariff (BPT), National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) and NICE guidance

·         To take responsibility for the education of Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes patients and their carers in terms of dietary advice to fit into patients’ lifestyles including carbohydrate counting competency to ensure they meet nutritional competencies prior to pump training.

·         Participate in education for school staff supporting children with diabetes

·         Participate in education for other clinical staff with the PAH NHS Trust

·         Offer separate one to one appointments for dietary assessment to all children with diabetes in line with the BPT and NPDA standards

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.