Job description
Band 7
- Full time
- Part time
Job overview
The Nottingham Metabolic Service is undergoing an exciting period of expansion.
We are looking to appoint a Band 7 Advanced Practitioner Dietitian to support a maternity leave cover in the paediatric metabolic team at Nottingham Children's hospital. This will be 1 WTE fixed term for 12 months
We are seeking a dynamic individual who has an interest in working in a specialist and learning-rich environment, who can demonstrate compassion and empathy for our children, young people and their families. The 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 with inherited metabolic disorders, we would like to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will hold a clinical caseload and will work with infants, children and their families and carers in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This role involves regular working alongside the multidisciplinary team across the newly formed East Midlands Paediatric Metabolic Service. As a visible leader, you will be a role model for the Dietetic team ensuring high standards of quality care for patients and their families.
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 supported by our Chief AHP to lead us on our strategic direction.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached for further details.
You will be required to wear PPE as guided by local and national policy.
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.
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