Specialist Dietitian - Paediatric Diabetes

Job summary

The children's diabetes team at University Hospitals Derby and Burton are looking for an experienced diabetes dietitian to help lead the expert clinical care delivered to children across the region with diabetes. The post holder will be the lead dietitian for children and young people accessing the diabetes service who have additional health needs including eating disorders, disordered eating, type two diabetes and obesity. Additionally you will deliver day to day clinic cover, teaching and education and be involved in the management of newly diagnosed patients. You will also be an active member of the wider dietetic team.

The children's diabetes team aim to provide excellent, evidence based care and use current resource, technology and education to ensure patients receive the highest of care from the team. We rank very highly in achieving expert clinical outcomes for our patients in the most recent RCPCH diabetes Audit data.

We are constantly looking at ways to empower our team, drive Quality Improvement initiatives and provide a strong, positive team culture, with emphasis on wellbeing and resilience within the department.

We aim to celebrate and cultivate colleagues within our department and actively look for opportunities for social inclusion.

The position will involve working at both Royal Derby Hospital and Queens Hospital Burton.

Main duties of the job

The highly specialist dietitian is responsible for a complex, highly specialist clinical case load providing advanced dietary and lifestyle advice to patients and carers.

To work as a highly skilled practitioner within the multidisciplinary team for paediatric diabetes and undertake a range of clinical duties as part of this role.

This will include but is not limited to the following: attending all diabetes clinics, running dietetic specific clinics and ensuring annual reviews are completed for each patient. The candidate will need to have working knowledge of current monitoring and treatment therapies for young people with diabetes.

To advise on complex areas of nutrition and diabetes, with particular focus on eating disorders, disordered eating, type 2 diabetes and obesity but also to include exercise, carbohydrate to insulin ratios, insulin sensitivity factors and translate complex nutritional information into practical dietary advice.

Closing date of applications: 27 July 2023

Interview date: 9 August 2023

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital / Queens Hospital Burton

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital / Queens Hospital Burton

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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