Lead Specialist Dietitian

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Would you like to help lead and support the creation of a new childhood weight management service?  A new multi-disciplinary service to support children and young people who have complications of excessive weight (CEW) has been commissioned at the Great North Children’s Hospital.  The lead specialist dietitian will work closely with the lead consultant paediatrician, specialist nurse, psychologist and a family support worker to provide weight management support to families across the North East and North Cumbria as part of the CEW network.  There will be links with the CEW team in South Tees and regular meetings with other CEW centres nationally for additional clinical supervision and support.  The post holder will help to collect outcomes for this new service, in order to support evaluation and the positive impact on the health and wellbeing of the families referred into the service. 

• Interview date: 20 March 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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This post requires someone with significant clinical experience, ideally including some paediatric and/or weight management experience. The post holder will have excellent communication skills, multi-disciplinary team working, initiative, and a critical approach to practice to contribute as a team in delivering quality patient care. The post holder will be responsible for co-ordinating and evaluating the new service and will meet the demands of the service including research and audit. You will be responsible for the training, guidance and supervision of staff within this specialist area. As you may undertake home visits, a car owner and driving license is required.

As the Lead Specialist Dietitian, this is an opportunity to develop your skills working alongside a dynamic and established paediatric dietetic team, who work within a wide range of areas including Allergy, Bone Marrow Transplant, Cardiothoracic Surgery (based at the Freeman Hospital), Diabetes, Gastroenterology, Ketogenic Diets, Metabolic Disease, Neurology, Oncology, Parenteral Nutrition, PICU, Renal Disease, and Surgery.

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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.