Paediatric Dietitian - Crawley, United Kingdom - First Community Health and Care

First Community Health and Care
First Community Health and Care
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Crawley, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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The post holder is responsible for managing a paediatric caseload and contributing to the First Dietitians Team for First Community Health and Care


This includes:

Responsibility for providing clinics (face to face and virtual) and domiciliary visits within First Dietitians localities where you will assess nutritional problems and manage and treat children with medical conditions requiring nutritional management.

To manage a caseload of home enterally fed and complex community paediatric patients.

To undertake child protection cases as required - attend team around the family, core groups & case conferences and ensure nutritional needs are highlighted and actioned with the support of the childrens safeguarding team and senior colleagues.


To work autonomously as a dietitian but also to be part of the wider paediatric MDT to provide holistic, appropriate patient care, even if they are part of a different organisation.

To liaise with other dietitians and HCPs from the local acute trust and tertiary care centres, possibly providing shared care for patients.

To act as source of expertise to members of Secondary/Primary Health Care Paediatric Teams, other health professionals, local authority professionals and community groups.

To develop and provide nutrition education and training to professionals within our locality, student dietitians and possibly community groups.
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