Job Introduction

If you are a passionate Dietitian who enjoys helping children and families make positive, lasting changes to their health and wellbeing, we'd love to hear from you.We are expanding our Children's Dietetic Team and are looking for a motivated Band 6 Dietitian to join our friendly and supportive service in Essex.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your paediatric dietetic skills within a growing community team, working closely with children, families and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality nutritional care.You will provide specialist dietetic assessment and intervention through a combination of community clinics, virtual consultations, telephone support and email advice. 

The service supports children and young people with a wide range of nutritional needs, including food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties, restricted eating (including children with autism spectrum disorder), micronutrient deficiencies, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and coeliac disease. Alongside your clinical work, you will contribute to service development, audit activity, resource creation and training for healthcare professionals across the wider system.

Package Description

As a Band 6 Dietitian, you will be part of our valued team in Essex and receive access to a wide range of rewards, benefits and development opportunities.

• Band 6 Agenda for Change salary and terms and conditions, including NHS Pension Scheme membership
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases, cashback opportunities and voucher offers
• Access to your earned wages before payday to help manage life's unexpected expenses
• Online and face-to-face wellbeing support, including healthy lifestyle resources, counselling, legal support, debt advice and life management assistance
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through our outstanding Learning Enterprise team
• An open and inclusive culture where you're encouraged to contribute ideas and improvements, supported by at least £100,000 of ring-fenced innovation funding every year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to high clinical and quality standards, with the majority of services rated Good or Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission

We're committed to supporting work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible and hybrid working options where service needs allow.This permanent Band 6 role plays an integral part within our Community Dietetic Team and offers part-time hours, making it an excellent opportunity for those seeking flexibility alongside a rewarding clinical career.

Main Responsibilities

Developing Paediatric Services

Working closely with the Paediatric Lead Dietitian and wider Community Dietetic Team, you will help develop and enhance paediatric dietetic services across West Essex. You will contribute to service improvement initiatives, resource development, audit activity and the ongoing evolution of the service.

Managing a Specialist Caseload

You will independently manage your own paediatric caseload, delivering specialist dietary assessment, treatment and ongoing support for children and their families. Consultations will be delivered through a combination of community clinics, virtual appointments, telephone consultations and email advice.

Providing Expert Clinical Support

Using your clinical expertise and professional judgement, you will assess children with a variety of nutritional and feeding difficulties, developing evidence-based treatment plans that support positive outcomes and improve quality of life for children and their families.

Working Collaboratively

You will work closely with GPs, the 0-19 Family Wellbeing Team and other healthcare professionals, ensuring effective communication and joined-up care for patients across the community.

Professional Development and Supervision

You will receive clinical supervision and support from the Band 7 Community Paediatric Dietitian while continuing to build your knowledge and skills within a supportive and experienced team environment.Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification

Essential

• HCPC registration
• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics (or equivalent)
• At least one year's post-qualification clinical experience, including experience within paediatric services
• Strong clinical competence in paediatric dietetics, including assessment, treatment planning and dietary counselling
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with children, families and multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to work autonomously and manage a varied caseload effectively
• Flexible, organised and able to prioritise workload within a busy community setting
• Good IT skills to support digital consultations, record keeping and service delivery

Desirable

• Experience working within a community healthcare setting
• Experience delivering virtual consultations
• Experience contributing to audit, service development or quality improvement initiatives
• Experience developing patient resources or delivering training to healthcare professionals

Please see the attached Job Description for the full Personal Specification.If you'd like to find out more about this opportunity, we'd be pleased to hear from you. Please contact the recruitment team via email at daniel.campbell@hcrgcaregroup.com or call 07557 240461.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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