Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- Band 6/7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (full time)
- Job ref
- 411-COM-25-7277825
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £38,682 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Specialist Community Paediatric Dietician
Band 6/7
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Advanced Specialist Community Paediatric Dietitian
Band 7 or Band 6 Preceptorship Post
The Community Paediatric Dietetic Department at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital is excited to invite applications for a newly created Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian post. This role may be offered as a B6 post and once you have completed a competency based training programme you will progress to a permanent B7 post. This role will support children and families across the Liverpool & Sefton areas with complex health needs.
We have two office bases, one in Liverpool and one in Sefton area.
As a key member of this busy community team, you will work alongside other B7's, B6's and dietetic assistants. You'll have the opportunity to provide a clinical leadership role within the team, whilst applying your dietetic expertise across a wide range of conditions in a community setting. These include:
• Faltering growth
• Food allergies
• Feeding difficulties
• Nutrition support
• Gastrointestinal conditions
• Tube feeding and complex needs
• Group education sessions
You’ll deliver care primarily through out-patient clinics, alongside home or school visits/clinics as needed.
This role offers strong professional support, including regular clinical supervision. You’ll also have the chance to supervise junior team members and student dietitians, contributing to the development of future professionals. The team has wider support from our Preceptorship and Learning and Development teams.
Main duties of the job
- To use an advanced level of knowledge, skills and experience to provide highly specialist evidence based clinical dietetic service within community services within the Trust. This includes assessment, treatment and monitoring of patients and the provision of nutrition support and the giving of appropriate dietetic advice.
- To communicate effectively within the multi-disciplinary care teams within the community settings both at an individual patient level and regarding wider aspects of dietetic and nutritional care.
- To continuously review the evidence base for nutrition and dietetic interventions in children and young people within the community service.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Accept clinical responsibility for the dietetic management of children and young people with a broad range of complex clinical conditions. Organising workload effectively and efficiently according to clinical priorities.
- Undertake comprehensive assessment of clinical and nutritional status including anthropometrics, biochemistry, clinical condition and nutritional requirements.
- Analyse and interpret the results of the nutritional, biochemical and clinical assessment to help formulate both a diagnosis and a treatment plan taking into account clinical, social and cultural factors.
- Plan and implement dietetic intervention based on the results of the nutritional assessment to achieve the expected clinical outcome.
- Comprehensively assess patients requiring nutrition support including parenteral nutrition and be able to manage all the dietetic aspects of these interventions.
- Provide suitable written and verbal information to families, carers and other professionals to ensure the provision of correct dietary treatment for patients.
- Continuously evaluate the young person’s clinical parameters and outcomes and modify the dietetic treatment plan as necessary to achieve expected long term dietetic and clinical outcome.
- Advise medical staff on the prescribing of appropriate medications and nutritional supplements to support treatment e.g. vitamins, minerals, protein and energy substitutes.
- Communicate complex and sensitive information to children and their families in a way which is understandable to them and which may include unwelcome or difficult to accept information.
- Engage and negotiate with children and their families to enable and motivate them to agree and achieve the required dietetic intervention in a supportive and empathetic framework.
- Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings appropriate to the needs of the community work and ensure that the dietetic aspects of care are communicated effectively within the multidisciplinary team.
- Ensure safe and timely follow up of patients following discharge from hospital including liaison with GP’s, community nursing teams and other key agencies.
- Undertake community, school and home visits when necessary to support the dietetic treatment of the child.
- Continuously monitor and review the dietetic management and other associated medical treatments against outcome measures adjusting treatment and goals as appropriate to the clinical situation.
- Develop and maintain a range of educational resources to support dietetic advice which have a clear evidence base and which are understandable by children, young people and their families.
- Liaise with medical teams when clinically appropriate to arrange admissions when clinically necessary.
- Record accurately all dietetic intervention in line with the agreed record keeping standards of the HCPC and the department.
- Communicate orally, and in writing where appropriate, relevant patient information to all relevant health professionals and agencies.
- Develop evidence-based protocols and standards of care for dietetic care of children with specific conditions.
- Evaluate regional, national and international standards of care to ensure that dietetic care is delivered effectively to current accepted standards.
- Work with the dietetic assistants to ensure accurate and up-to-date nutritional product data is maintained.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree or post-graduate qualification in Nutrition and Dietetics (2)
- • Registered dietitian with HCPC (2)
- • Demonstrable post registration experience in clinical paediatric dietetics or in the defined sub specialty at Band 6 or above (2)
Desirable criteria
- • Demonstrable post registration experience in clinical paediatric dietetics at Band 7 level (2)
- • Attainment of validated post-registration training in paediatric dietetics preferably at Masters level (2)
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • In- depth level of knowledge of nutritional requirements and required dietetic interventions for children and young people including all aspects of enteral and parenteral nutrition support (2)
- • Evidence of experiential learning through continued professional development (2)
- • Knowledge of audit and research methodologies (2)
- • Highly developed oral and written communication skills in a breadth of clinical settings. (2)
Desirable criteria
- Ability to demonstrate behaviour change facilitation/motivational interviewing
- Skilled to deliver both formal and informal teaching to a range of health care professionals
- Ability to Identify and complete projects within agreed deadlines
- Ability to contribute to operational service delivery and the development of departmental structures and systems
- Car owner and driver
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Jones
- Job title
- Team Lead Community
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 295 3948
- Additional information
Head of Dietetics: Alice Sutton [email protected]
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