Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To provide dietary education and nutritional assessment to children and young people in all
settings
2. To maintain expertise in paediatric dietetics through expert clinical practice and continuing
professional development and to act as the department and trust resource.
3. To develop and provide ongoing education and training to medical, nursing and other healthcare
professionals to improve nutritional knowledge and promote consistent nutritional messages.
4. To develop nutrition and dietetic resources to ensure the availability of up to date and consistent
information in a variety of media to meet the needs of the population served
5. To provide dietary education and nutritional assessment to children with food allergy
6. To provide advice, education and ongoing support to all patients seen at Consultant led allergy
clinics.
7. To maintain expertise in allergy through expert clinical practice and continuing professional
development and to act as the department and trust resource.
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8. To manage regular dietetic clinics, which receive referrals from Paediatricians, GPs and Health
Visitors, for a range of disorders including food allergy, failure to thrive, faddy eating, obesity and
premature i nfant follow-up.
9. To participate in the development of a paediatric obesity service
10. To organise workload to suit the needs of the patients and/or carers or other health professionals
and be able to change planned activities at short notice in response to patients' needs.
11. To calculate nutritional requirements, formulate and initiate feeding regimens and/or dietary care
plans, choosing the most appropriate of different and often conflicting dietary treatment options
and to monitor/review their efficacy/suitability, adjusting as appropriate
12.To organise the safe discharge of enterally fed patients and co-ordinate the ordering of their
equipment for home.
13. To have an understanding of ethical issues surrounding enteral feeding and be able to advise
accordingly
14.fo recommend to doctors the prescription of enteral feeds/nutritional supplements for outpatients
and monitor/review their use.
15. To prescribe nutritional supplements for inpatients within the specific guidelines agreed by the
Trust.
16. To gain valid consent to treatment as set out in the trust Consent Policy and negotiate change with
patients by breaking down barriers, using motivational skills, to enable them to achieve dietary
targets
17.To overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance by using sensitivity and empathy, highly
developed interpersonal skills, persuasive and motivational skills to encourage compliance to the
most appropriate dietary treatment plan.
18. To work in an often-stressful environment of looking after patients with acute, chronic or
degenerative disorders and helping support the patient and carers through the emotional
responsibility this can entail.
19. To attend child protection case conferences and multi-agency meetings as required