Community Childrens Dietitian - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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We have a fantastic opportunity for dynamic, enthusiastic and highly motivated dietitian to join CNWL to work in the Community Children's Nursing Team.

This is an ideal post for a dietitian with experience in nutritional support who wants to develop clinical skills working with children and young people living in the community with a feeding tube.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The post holder will be responsible for providing specialist dietetic advice and support to a complex caseload of enterally fed infants, children, young people and their parents/carers in a range of settings including patients' homes, special need schools, respite care and clinics.

You will work alongside healthcare professionals within the acute and community sectors, education and social services to assess, treat and safeguard children in your care.

The post holder will be supported by the current Band 7 dietitian. Continuing professional development is actively supported via clinical supervision, yearly appraisal, in-house training and monthly in-service training.

To provide specialist dietetic assessment and treatment programmes to children and young people in their own homes, schools and respite care centres requiring Home Enteral Tube To work in conjunction with the Community Children's Nursing Team

To make a clinical judgment and explanation of nutritional status and to formulate individualised treatment plans and deliver appropriate

To make recommendations to GPs on the appropriate prescribing of oral nutrition supplements and enteral

To follow local policies and guidance regarding appropriate prescribing practices

To provide training, support and guidance on Home enteral Feeding.

To contribute to Home Enteral Tube Feeding service development, including the development of appropriate strategies, policies and

To organise and manage enteral feeding accounts for enteral feeding patients using the most appropriate equipment for each child.

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.

To support in the development of new initiatives within the

To be an active member of the multidisciplinary team working collaboratively with other members of the team and recognising the skills and expertise of others.

To be proactive in personal professional

To provide support and supervision to under graduate students.

To maintain clinical records as an autonomous

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.

We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run. Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation.

You will be part of the Children's Community Nursing Team (CCNT) in Hillingdon, working closely with the children's nurses, school staff, other allied health professionals and medical staff at Hillingdon Hospital as well as the specialist dietitian already in post.

You will also be part of a wider peer supervision group of paediatric dietitians working across CNWL to support evidence based practice and innovation.

Peer support is also gained from close working relationships and monthly CPD meetings with the paediatric dietitians at Hillingdon Hospital

As part of the CCNT you will gain practical experience of enteral feeding and the management of the ancillaries and equipment required; supporting families with the care and maintenance of feeding tubes including changing balloon gastrostomy tubes if desired.

We are a flexible and friendly team, who are keen to provide you the working environment for you to thrive and progress in your dietetics career.

To provide nutrition advice (including enteral feeding, oral nutrition supplementation) to children and young people and their carers. This will involve nutritional diagnosis and assessment (interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition and diet history) using evidence-based guidelines and the development of treatment plans (calculation of nutritional requirements and client-centred goals) using evidence-based

To calculate energy requirements and to recommend food fortification to meet requirements or an appropriate prescription for oral nutrition supplements or enteral

To use professional judgment and clinical expertise to independently interpret and analyse complex situations and information to formulate treatment plans according to evidence based practice and modify according to changes in c