Job overview
The post holder will provide Maternity cover as a fixed term contract to the Ketogenic service at the Oxford Children’s Hospital working alongside the lead ketogenic dietitian.
This highly specialist service supports paediatric patients who have epilepsy requiring a ketogenic diet and involves working as an integral member of both the dietetic team and the multidisciplinary paediatric neurology team to provide a flexible, prioritised service based on clinical need.
If the applicant has the right knowledge and skills to support a small caseload of metabolic patients (Galactosaemia and MCADD) and Mitochondrial patients as part of a quaternary service model there is the potential to make this up to a full time role ( metabolic, mito).
Main duties of the job
1. Support the current Ketogenic service in line with the NICE guidelines for epilepsy (CG, and related documents)
2. To ensure a day a week service is available for ketogenic dietetic patients by regularly reviewing availability including agreeing annual leave and cover arrangements.
3. Educate and counsel children and their caregivers on the management of ketogenic diet therapy.
4. Offer support to children and families particularly during illness, hospital admissions, school trips, holidays. Liaise with nurseries, schools and all healthcare professional’s involved in the child or young person’s care.
5. To have a case management role within the MDT team. To judge and determine appropriateness of referrals made by members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure effective use of time and resources.
6. Independently assess nutritional status based on anthropometric measurements as well as biochemical parameters, diet history and other validated methods of nutritional assessment as appropriate.
7. Have a strong foundation in nutritional support including enteral feeding and the use of home enteral feeding programs.
8. Work autonomously and manage specialised caseload independently, without supervision.
9. Be able to address barriers to communication use of interpreters, visual aids.
10. Work within the OUH framework for safeguarding and ensure correct protocols are followed
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