Advanced Dietitian - CYP inpatients Tier 4 Provision

Advanced Dietitian - CYP inpatients, Band 7 (Full Time; hybrid working supported) - Darwin Centre (Tier 4 provision)

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and innovative Dietitian with an interest in children and young people's mental health to join our friendly multi-disciplinary team, who is ready to take their next step and keen to make a difference to our service users.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of key policies, standard operating procedures and pathways to support our children and young people with eating disorders, disordered eating and those identified as being at high nutritional risk. A large part of the role will involve working closely with the Darwin team, providing education and support as required.

This is a varied, challenging and exciting role in which you will be in a unique position to lead on changes making a significant difference to our service users. You will be well supported in your development by the Trust Lead Dietitian, Darwin nursing team and multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

To provide a highly specialist dietetic service to CYP Eating disorder patients receiving treatment from the Trust's inpatient service (Tier 4) based within the Darwin Centre. To provide a dietetic clinical lead role for those YP suffering with an eating disorder within the Darwin Centre.

To act as a source of expertise on the dietary management of eating disorders to medical staff, therapy staff, other health professionals, GPs, external agencies such as local community mental health teams and the dietetic department.

To make recommendations for the purchasing of supplements, food provided on the ward and equipment within the budget held by the Team Manager.

Providing clinical supervision and Training for clinical staff and students within the Darwin Centre.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.