Job overview

We are looking for a Band 6 Paediatric Dietitian to join our community dietetics team. The post is full time and based at High Point house in Greenwich. Within this role the post holder will deliver paediatric dietetic care in established community clinics across the borough.

You will work as a member of a friendly team, with responsibility for a varied community paediatric caseload including food allergy, fussy eating, nutritional deficiencies and a small caseload of home enteral tube feeding. You will have the opportunity to work as part of an integrated children’s service with highly experienced paediatric community team.

Main duties of the job

To assess the dietetic needs of infants and children referred to the Community Paediatric Dietitian service and provide age-appropriate advice to parents and carers regarding their child.

To provide advice to colleagues in health and social care regarding the dietetic management and care of patients/clients to include colleagues working with children with complex needs.

To produce specialist reports regarding patients’ needs and summarise proposed care and management plans within agreed timescales.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care