Job summary
Make a lasting difference to children's health and well
being across Wiltshire.
Join our dedicated paediatric dietetic team and play a vital
role in delivering specialist, community based support to children and families
who rely on our expertise to thrive.
You will provide a high quality and responsive paediatric
dietetic service for patients referred by GPs, Health Visitors and Children's
Services across the north and west of Wiltshire. Your work will help shape
healthier futures by supporting children with a wide range of nutritional
needs.
This role can be based at either Wilton Community Hospital
or Chippenham Community Hospital, with the flexibility to work from home as
part of our hybrid working model. You will also have access to team office
bases at both sites, and some on site time is encouraged to support learning,
development and collaboration with colleagues.
Our team delivers a blend of face to face clinics and
inpatient support across community hospitals and health centres in Chippenham,
Wilton, Salisbury, Amesbury, Warminster, Melksham, Trowbridge, Devizes and
Savernake. Where possible, we align each clinicians working locality with their
primary base to support manageable travel and work life balance. You will also
contribute to virtual services offered to children and families throughout
Wiltshire, ensuring equitable access to dietetic care.
Main duties of the job
- Safely and effectively manage your own patient caseload.
- Carry out comprehensive nutritional assessments, including anthropometric measurements, using specialist equipment where needed.
- Calculate and estimate individual nutritional requirements.
- Develop safe and appropriate nutritional treatment plans tailored to each patient.
- Work with patients and families to agree on and implement the recommended dietary treatment.
- Monitor progress closely and adjust treatment plans as required.
- Review, discharge, or hand over patients in line with local procedures and clinical pathways.
- Arrange follow up appointments according to service guidelines.
- Adhere to all departmental, Trust wide, and professional guidelines to ensure safe caseload management.
- Maintain accurate, up to date patient records in line with national and local standards, including BDA guidance.
- Critically evaluate new developments in dietetic practice and share relevant insights with colleagues and your line manager.
- Provide detailed clinical information for legal purposes when required.
- Communicate sensitive or complex information to patients, sometimes in challenging or emotionally difficult situations.
- Use strong negotiation and motivational skills to support patients in making sustainable dietary and lifestyle changes.
- Provide education, guidance, and therapeutic dietary advice, and develop supporting materials to help patients understand and follow treatment plans.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading
independent providers of community health and care services, working with
health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a
focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform
adult and children community health services, primary care services including
urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult
social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of
many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year -
guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome
applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.
Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide
facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as
inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very
popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If
youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as
soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Paediatric Dietitian, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £38,682 to £46,580 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential Criteria
- Current HCPC registration as a Dietitian, with a degree in Dietetics, Human Nutrition, or an equivalent qualification.
- Membership of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) and its Paediatric Specialist Group.
- Strong specialist knowledge of paediatric nutrition and evidencebased dietetic practice across a range of conditions.
- Postregistration training in communication and behaviour change, with completed Safeguarding Children training.
- Experience working with paediatric patients in NHS settings, including paediatric home enteral feeding.
- Experience in project management, teaching, and supervising staff or students.
- Ability to translate complex dietetic information into clear, practical language for children, carers, and professionals.
- Knowledge of clinical governance, standard dietetic products for paediatrics, and safe, effective treatment planning.
- Strong communication skills for both 1:1 and group education, with a sensitive and supportive approach.
- Ability to work autonomously as a paediatric specialist, while contributing effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to design, deliver, and evaluate training programmes, and to set up audits to monitor service quality.
- Flexible, innovative approach with strong organisational and problemsolving skills.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Paediatric Dietitian, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £38,682 to £46,580 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential Criteria
- Current HCPC registration as a Dietitian, with a degree in Dietetics, Human Nutrition, or an equivalent qualification.
- Membership of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) and its Paediatric Specialist Group.
- Strong specialist knowledge of paediatric nutrition and evidencebased dietetic practice across a range of conditions.
- Postregistration training in communication and behaviour change, with completed Safeguarding Children training.
- Experience working with paediatric patients in NHS settings, including paediatric home enteral feeding.
- Experience in project management, teaching, and supervising staff or students.
- Ability to translate complex dietetic information into clear, practical language for children, carers, and professionals.
- Knowledge of clinical governance, standard dietetic products for paediatrics, and safe, effective treatment planning.
- Strong communication skills for both 1:1 and group education, with a sensitive and supportive approach.
- Ability to work autonomously as a paediatric specialist, while contributing effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to design, deliver, and evaluate training programmes, and to set up audits to monitor service quality.
- Flexible, innovative approach with strong organisational and problemsolving skills.
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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.
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