Job overview

The Community Paediatric Dietitian will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive and evidence based dietetic service for infants and children referred to the service. The post holder will be supported by specialist and experienced community paediatric dietitians. The service accepts a variety of primary care referrals including infants and children with food allergy, faltering growth, fussy eating and common nutritional deficiencies. Part of this role will be to gain experience in delivering virtual parent groups in designated pathways such as Cow’s Milk allergy and Fussy Eater parental groups. The service runs from well-established health centres across the borough however the role may involve lone working at times.

Main duties of the job

• To provide nutritional and dietetic advice to children and their parents/ carers referred to the outpatient service under the care of GPs, consultants or other healthcare professionals.
• To demonstrate dietetic knowledge underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
• To develop individual patient-centred care plans based on nutritional diagnosis including interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical conditions, medication, diet history, family and social history. 
• To work in a co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved in client care.
• To be responsible for obtaining client and/or carer consent prior to dietetic intervention in accordance with professional guidelines.
• To attend statutory and mandatory training annually
• To keep electronic records of all patient contacts on an electronic information system in accordance with trust and departmental standards for record keeping.

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