Clinical Lead Dietitian - Community Paediatrics

A rare and exciting opportunity has arise in the Dudley Community Dietetic Team, for a Clinical Lead Dietitian for Paediatrics in the community. The Community Dietetic Team is a small, friendly, specialist team of Dietitians based at Stourbridge Health and Social Care Centre. The team is part of the Dudley Rehabilitation Service. There are many training courses available, to develop your clinical and leaderships skills. The successful candidate will work as an advanced specialist Dietitian managing a caseload complex home enterally tube fed patients as well as patients with a variety of conditions and dietetic needs. The post holder will also provide leadership, training, supervision and appraisal for junior staff. Working along side the other Clinical Lead Dietitians in the community you conduct audits and patient feedback initiatives to help develop the service. Part time applicants are encouraged to apply and flexible working arrangement will also be considered., Clinical Responsibilities include:

• To work autonomously as a specialist Community Dietitian for paediatrics
• To undertake and complete comprehensive holistic assessments of patients with a variety of conditions and dietetic needs
• To work closely with other members of the specialist MDTs to provide an integrated service to paediatrics within the community.
• To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions using appropriate outcome measures to ensure effective intervention.
• To lead on service developments and ways of working for the team.
• To supervise, educate and assess the performance of Dietetic students
• Responsible for the nutritional care given to community patients, in a variety of settings including their own homes, care homes and community clinics.
• To educate and counsel patients, carers and groups about the importance of nutrition
• To calculate and monitor artificial enteral feeding regimens and monitor people who are receiving home enteral feeds, in care homes and their own homes, changing these feeds as needed and liaising with the home enteral feeding supplier
• To monitor and assess gastrostomy sites reporting problems to relevant nursing staff and arranging training as appropriate
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  At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds. The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust recognises the values and transferable skills that the Armed Forces community bring and recognise their compatibility with NHS roles. We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible.