The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children’s service. Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by: Putting patients first Aiming to get it right Recognising that everybody counts Doing everything openly and honestly ‘Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England' Job overview Looking for someone enthusiastic to join our friendly paediatric dietician team. The role will cover one day a week based either at James Paget University Hospital or The Newberry Child Development Centre. Post holder would work alongside a senior dietician to help deliver the service to children and families within our area. The successful candidate would work as part of our large multi-disciplinary team covering a range of dietician support and advice working with age ranges from birth up to 19th birthdays. Full job description can be found attached. Advert To work autonomously to provide a flexible and comprehensive dietetic service for children within James Paget University Hospital and the local community. - To be responsible for providing training and education to patient groups and health professionals - To take an active role in the development of the dietetic service within paediatric diabetes - To provide a specialist dietetic service to the paediatric allergy - To contribute to the nutrition and dietetic service as a whole through participation in service development Working for our organisation We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential. We’re a 450-bed district general hospital. Through the national NHS Staff Survey, our staff value our commitment to flexible working, and feel engaged and involved in how services operate. Detailed job description and main responsibilities 1. To provide dietary education and nutritional assessment to children and young people in all settings 2. To maintain expertise in paediatric dietetics through expert clinical practice and continuing professional development and to act as the department and trust resource. 3. To develop and provide ongoing education and training to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals to improve nutritional knowledge and promote consistent nutritional messages. 4. To develop nutrition and dietetic resources to ensure the availability of up to date and consistent information in a variety of media to meet the needs of the population served 5. To provide dietary education and nutritional assessment to children with food allergy 6. To provide advice, education and ongoing support to all patients seen at Consultant led allergy clinics. 7. To maintain expertise in allergy through expert clinical practice and continuing professional development and to act as the department and trust resource. NHS Foundation Trust NHS Page 1 ofS AB/dkb/Mar201 1 8. To manage regular dietetic clinics, which receive referrals from Paediatricians, GPs and Health Visitors, for a range of disorders including food allergy, failure to thrive, faddy eating, obesity and premature i nfant follow-up. 9. To participate in the development of a paediatric obesity service 10. To organise workload to suit the needs of the patients and/or carers or other health professionals and be able to change planned activities at short notice in response to patients' needs. 11. To calculate nutritional requirements, formulate and initiate feeding regimens and/or dietary care plans, choosing the most appropriate of different and often conflicting dietary treatment options and to monitor/review their efficacy/suitability, adjusting as appropriate 12.To organise the safe discharge of enterally fed patients and co-ordinate the ordering of their equipment for home. 13. To have an understanding of ethical issues surrounding enteral feeding and be able to advise accordingly 14.fo recommend to doctors the prescription of enteral feeds/nutritional supplements for outpatients and monitor/review their use. 15. To prescribe nutritional supplements for inpatients within the specific guidelines agreed by the Trust. 16. To gain valid consent to treatment as set out in the trust Consent Policy and negotiate change with patients by breaking down barriers, using motivational skills, to enable them to achieve dietary targets 17.To overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance by using sensitivity and empathy, highly developed interpersonal skills, persuasive and motivational skills to encourage compliance to the most appropriate dietary treatment plan. 18. To work in an often-stressful environment of looking after patients with acute, chronic or degenerative disorders and helping support the patient and carers through the emotional responsibility this can entail. 19. To attend child protection case conferences and multi-agency meetings as required The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill-health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working and the development of a culture of openness and transparency. The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. ‘Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England' Tier 2 Sponsorship : We are pleased to consider applicants who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK but it is unlikely that we would be able to appoint if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled UK/Right to work candidate is available. Applying for entry clearance into the UK, must provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement. Visa and Immigration If you are wishing to apply for this role and would require sponsorship (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer), you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job. James Paget Hospitals uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Please check your account regularly under “My Applications” to view the progress of your applications. If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks, please assume your application has been unsuccessful. In submitting an application form, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Please note that should we experience a high level of interest in this post, the vacancy may be closed prior to the stated closing date.