Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Band 6 Paediatric Dietitian

The closing date is 21 May 2025

Job summary

Are you an experienced Band 5 dietitian or a Band 6 paediatric dietitian looking to expand your expertise in paediatrics? Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people's lives? We are seeking enthusiastic and innovative Dietitians who value teamwork and are dedicated to ensuring patients receive timely assessment and compassionate care. If you are eager to enhance your clinical and service development skills in the field of Dietetics for children and young people, we want you to join our team.

The Dietitians at Barnet, play a crucial role in supporting patients to optimise their abilities through therapeutic interventions and collaborative efforts. The dietetic team comprises of 4 Band 7 paediatric dietitians working in Neonates, allergy, diabetes and general paediatrics in and outpatient settings. We also work closely with the wider MDT.

The successful candidate will work across general inpatient and outpatient setting including an element of allergy and diabetes. You will also be supported to upskill to cover the neonatal ward when required.

We offer flexible working and some home working opportunities if the caseload allows.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

Therapy Services has a high profile within the Trust, being firmly committed to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and improvement. We undertake yearly presentations of our achievements for the year; undertaking PDSA and QI projects to ensure we are delivering the most effective, safe and high quality service.

For more information please follow linkhttps://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Details

Date posted

07 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

391-RFL-7152122

Job locations

Barnet Hospital

Barnet

EN5 3DJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

  • Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values

Education

Essential

  • Recognised Dietetics Degree qualification or equivalent
  • Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
  • Evidence of portfolio of post graduate continued development

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of paediatric allergy
  • Experience of working with allergy (or another long term condition) and their families
  • Experience of supervising junior staff and dietetic students
  • Actively involved in teaching and challenging the multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of delivering and evaluating group education to a range of client groups
  • Awareness/experience of setting & maintaining clinical standards and clinical audit
  • Evidence of presentation of own research/project work
  • Evidence of service development & contribution to change within the workplace
  • Behavioural change/ motivational interviewing skills
  • Evidence of managing continuous professional development whilst managing a busy caseload
  • Advanced reasoning skills
  • Evaluation and research skills
  • Good level of organisational and time management skills despite an unpredictable working pattern
  • Problem solving skills
  • Competent IT skills including word processing, internet, email and dietary analysis

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Ability to manage stressful situations by remaining calm, objective and professional at all times
  • Effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness & ability to negotiate
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  • Motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role

Desirable

  • Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately
  • Car Driver
Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

  • Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values

Education

Essential

  • Recognised Dietetics Degree qualification or equivalent
  • Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
  • Evidence of portfolio of post graduate continued development

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of paediatric allergy
  • Experience of working with allergy (or another long term condition) and their families
  • Experience of supervising junior staff and dietetic students
  • Actively involved in teaching and challenging the multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of delivering and evaluating group education to a range of client groups
  • Awareness/experience of setting & maintaining clinical standards and clinical audit
  • Evidence of presentation of own research/project work
  • Evidence of service development & contribution to change within the workplace
  • Behavioural change/ motivational interviewing skills
  • Evidence of managing continuous professional development whilst managing a busy caseload
  • Advanced reasoning skills
  • Evaluation and research skills
  • Good level of organisational and time management skills despite an unpredictable working pattern
  • Problem solving skills
  • Competent IT skills including word processing, internet, email and dietary analysis

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Ability to manage stressful situations by remaining calm, objective and professional at all times
  • Effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness & ability to negotiate
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  • Motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role

Desirable

  • Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately
  • Car Driver

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Barnet Hospital

Barnet

EN5 3DJ


Employer's website

https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Barnet Hospital

Barnet

EN5 3DJ


Employer's website

https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Lead for C & Y People Therapy Services

Debra Silver

dsilver@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

07 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

391-RFL-7152122

Job locations

Barnet Hospital

Barnet

EN5 3DJ


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