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Job summary

Main area
Dietetics
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (or secondment)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
164-7257702
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The children's Hospital Queens Medical Centre
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/06/2025 23:59

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Highly Specialist Dietitian: Paediatric Metabolic and ketogenics

Band 7

Job overview

We are looking to appoint a Band 7 Highly Specialist Dietitian within the Children’s team on a temporary basis to cover maternity leave.

This individual will be the dietetic lead for the Ketogenic service and will additionally work within the newly expanded metabolic team at Nottingham Children's Hospital. 

We are seeking a proactive and innovative individual who has an interest in working in a specialist and learning-rich environment. The successful applicant will demonstrate compassion and empathy for our children, young people and their families in their work. The individual will be working within the neurology team to lead on the dietetic care of children requiring a medical ketogenic diet for intractable epilepsy.  Additionally the successful individual will be joining an expanding multi-professional team as we begin to collaborate with Leicester to form the East Midland’s Paediatric Metabolic Service.

If you would like to work in a friendly environment and are motivated and enthusiastic about making a difference to the care of patients, we would like to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

 

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

 

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH

Working for our organisation

The Nottingham Children's Hospital (NCH) is based at the Queens Medical Centre campus and is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). We provide In-patient and out-patient care for children up to the age of 19 years old.

With 97 beds, we care for around 40,000 children each year from Nottinghamshire and beyond, treating a full range of conditions, including planned and emergency treatment and surgery, Burns and Plastics, Neurological conditions, Oncology, Paediatric critical care, Renal conditions and transplantation, and Spinal and Orthopaedic care.

The Children’s Therapy team at NCH is a friendly and supportive department who work closely alongside the wider MDT, providing excellent evidence based care and innovative ways of working.

Throughout NUH we have a diverse range of AHP and support staff who work together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached for further details.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • HCPC registration
  • Diploma or degree in relevant qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area
  • Experience of delegating to and supervising other members of the team

Analytical and judgement skill

Essential criteria
  • Able to make decisions about the treatment needs of highly complex patients
  • Lead on the development of improvements in service delivery and clinical practice using evidence based practice to recommend changes

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors

Planning & organisational skil

Essential criteria
  • Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand

Other

Essential criteria
  • Undertake out of hours duties as required.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Giana Blaauw
Job title
Clinical Specialist Paediatric Metabolic dietitian
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812276574
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