Highly Specialist Paediatric Community Dietitian

We are looking for an experienced part-time Paediatric Community Dietitian to cover maternity leave on a fixed term contract until August 2025. This is a part-time post (22.5hours per week) and the hours are flexible. You will work within a team of Paediatric Community Dietitians and also as part of a multi-disciplinary feeding team comprising of a clinical psychologist, occupational therapist and speech language therapist.

You will play a pivotal role in providing high-quality nutritional care to children within the community setting. Your responsibilities will include MDT feeding clinics and general community clinics, managing a caseload of nutrition support and home enteral feeding patients, running parent education groups and conducting visits to nurseries and schools. You will work closely with the community paediatric speech therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists. You will be expected to travel around Wandsworth borough using public transport. Our clinic locations are Eileen Lecky Clinic (Putney), St Therapy Centre (Clapham Junction), Queen Mary's Hospital (Roehampton), and Tooting Health Centre (Tooting).

Main duties of the job

The wider dietetic department consists of over 60 dietitians, who provide clinical inpatient, outpatient and community services to a variety of specialties including oncology, renal, neurology, haematology, paediatrics, cardiology, major trauma, gastro, surgical, diabetes, infectious diseases and HIV.

Thedepartment is committed to training dietetic students and actively participates in the training programs of clinical and non-clinical staff. There are numerous opportunities for professional and personal development.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust - being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these.

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services. With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m. Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,300 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

Co-located with St George's is the University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King's Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal services, gastrointestinal services, intestinal failure, cancer care and stroke.