Community Paediatric Dietitian

Would you like an opportunity to develop your dietetic career as a Dietitian working in community paediatrics? We are looking for an enthusiastic dietitian to join our friendly team of innovative community paediatric dietitians.

The clinical element of this role will involve work clinically in the community paediatric dietetic service offering expert advice and support for children with food allergy, faltering growth, feeding difficulties and obesity including children with autistic spectrum disorder. It will involve seeing children and their families in community clinics and offering video, telephone and email support to patients, GPs and other community health professionals, including collaboration with the public health nutritionist in the 0-19 Childrens community nursing team.

This permanent Band 6 post plays an integral role within the overall Community Dietetic team, supporting delivery of training to students, Band 5 dietitian, Band 4 dietetic assistant and other health care professionals such as the 0 -19 service, alongside service development, sourcing and developing relevant resources.

The role is suitable for those looking to progress their career and gain experience in community dietetics at a senior level. If all of the essential criteria is not met, we may consider making this a development post for the right candidate

The role requires you to have good knowledge and practical experience in nutrition and dietetics. You will need to have some knowledge of working with children and families and ideally experience of working in the community, this it is not essential.

This role will involve working closely with the Clinical Service Lead to develop the existing community service to ensure delivery of safe, efficient and effective services.

You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage your own workload under pressure.

We are looking for a professional, confident, enthusiastic, team player who is passionate about their speciality. At Nottingham City care we encourage our staff to develop and will support training opportunities.

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives.

CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.