Job overview
We are a Paediatric Dietetic service based in Northern Lincolnshire providing specialist Paediatric Dietetic clinical input within the Community and Therapy Group. Your base will be dependent on service need and preference.
The post holder will have autonomous responsibility for a highly specialist caseload, providing expert clinical support for children and young people with nutrition and dietetic needs. S/he will offer highly expert assessment and intervention relating to children and young people with complex needs working closely with colleagues in other agencies. The post includes responsibility for a defined caseload of complex cases
The role will involve working in a range of community and inpatient clinical settings including special schools family homes, inpatient wards and Child Development Centre.
This post holder may have line management responsibility for a designated team within the Children’s therapy team and or students.
Main duties of the job
1.Provide clinical leadership by being professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own work. Ensure a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management by supporting more junior staff to do likewise.
2.Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of highly complex patients and organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and resources of staff and time.
3.Undertake comprehensive specialist assessment of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and multiple pathologies; use specialist clinical reasoning, investigative and analytical skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis. If professionally appropriate use specialist standardised assessment tools. Interpreting these assessments and providing appropriate intervention.
4.Formulate, develop and implement an individual recommendation plan based on specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice, specialist training and practical experience and clinical guidelines. Establish treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of treatment options.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Dietetic degree or post graduate
2. HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
3. Masters level qualifications in paediatrics
Experience and abilities
Essential criteria
4. •Experience of working clinically with children
5. •Clinical experience as an autonomous practitioner for management of complex clinical caseloads
Desirable criteria
6. •Post registration experience of the management of patients with HEF, Faltering growth, multiple allergies
leadership
Essential criteria
7. Experience of line managing registered or non-registered staff
Desirable criteria
8. •Experience of deputising for senior team members i
Teaching
Essential criteria
9. •Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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