Children's Community Dietitian
Closed for applications on: 25-Oct-2023 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 25-Oct-2023 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Community locations Longsight Health centre
- Address
- Longsight Health Centre
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 0RR
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum, Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Dietetics
Job overview
You’re amazing! Which is why we want you to join our amazing children’s community dietetic team.
We are a friendly, motivated and dynamic multi-disciplinary community team, making a positive difference to the lives of our children every day and we’re excited to meet you. We are passionate about the care we provide and collaborate with our families to deliver evidence-based nutritional enteral feeding care plans that prioritise the wellbeing of every child in our care. We’re inviting you to come and meet us in person (or virtually, if that’s easier for you), the kettle’s on and we’d love to chat about our service, the difference you can make here and your career with us. As a multi-disciplinary team we regularly promote national nutrition and hydration.
We’re looking for an experienced, committed and enthusiastic individual to form part of our small dietetic team. We can offer you professional support and development to take the next step in your career here in Manchester.
You will have the opportunity to develop leadership and clinical skills and we will support you with training, to reach your potential and excel. You will be supported to deliver enteral feeding care to children and young people in the community and support the team lead to develop the enteral feeding service, consolidating processes and the relationship with the community nursing team and we’ll provide you with the support you need to grow as a professional within this extremely rewarding role.
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Working closely with a broad multidisciplinary team including paediatricians, children’s community nurses, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, health visitors, social workers, you will be responsible for providing dietetic support to infants and children who have complex health conditions and/or learning disabilities and who require tube feeding. With leadership from your dietitian team lead and support from a full-time dietetic assistant, you will provide specialist outpatient clinics, including within the 13 specialist schools across Manchester, attend feeding and swallowing clinics, MDT meetings, and carry out home visits.
With regular support from the Children’s Lead AHP, you will benefit from strong links with the hospital dietitians at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, as well as the support of a network of AHP colleagues across the city and children’s dietetics colleagues Trafford Local Care Organisation. Professional development is valued and supported within our teams. You will receive professional development, regular specialist multidisciplinary support and education and regular reviews and supervision.
We promote flexibility and are happy to support different working patterns, please speak to us about how we can support you to work flexibly. This post is based at Longsight Health Centre which benefits from free car parking facilities.
Working for our organisation
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc or Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics
- Clinical supervisory skills
- Registered with Health Profession Council
Desirable criteria
- Member of PENG/BAPEN
- Member of the British Dietetic Association.
- Member of special interest group.
- Accredited BDA course in specialist area.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience.
- Up-to-date knowledge of treatment for paediatric dietetic conditions, in particular special needs
- Understanding of difference approach to teaching children/carers
- Awareness of the HPC's Standards of conduct, performance and ethics and Standards of proficiency
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development in dietetics. Experience of and commitment to interdisciplinary team working.
- Evidence of contribution to clinical education and in-service training of less experienced staff/students and assistants.
- Understanding of clinical effectiveness and its implications for services including experience of quality issues, audit and evidence based practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Previous experience of working in the area of home enteral feeding.
- Knowledge of clinical supervision.
- Basic clinical supervisory skills training.
- Experience of pre-registration dietetic student training
- Recent post registration acute paediatric clinical dietetic experience
Clinical Skills /Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills especially with children.
- Good Leadership/organisational/planning/prioritisation skills
- Ability to motivate and negotiate to encourage reluctant and challenging patients
- Ability to work as part of a team with a flexible attitude to cover for leave
- Well developed concentration, analytical and problem solving skills
- Effective written communication skills e.g. clinical records, reports to other health care professionals and external agencies.
- Highly skilled in Word Excel Powerpoint and general IT.
- Full clean license and access to car for work
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Soraya Begum
- Job title
- Head of Service - Complex
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 248 1239
- Additional information
If you’d like to take up our invite and come and meet us, in person or chat to us virtually please call or email Soraya Begum, Head of Service, Children’s Complex Care (0161 248-1239) [email protected] or Louise Lee, Lead AHP (07813293778) [email protected] alternatively, hit ‘apply now’ and we’ll see you at interview.
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