Job summary
Health and Care Jersey is seeking a keen and dedicated Paediatric Dietitian to work alongside our children's therapy teams in the Child Development & Therapy Centre. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Dietitian with a passion for delivering high quality, family centred care to infants, children and young people with a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions.
The successful candidate will manage a varied and complex paediatric caseload, working autonomously to provide expert nutritional assessment, treatment and advice. As a highly valued member of the service you will contribute to service developments, quality improvement and the ongoing advancement of paediatric dietetic care across Jersey.
Main duties of the job
To work as a Specialist Paediatric Dietitian, providing expert clinical knowledge, autonomous decision-making, and strategic input to manage a diverse paediatric caseload with a variety of acute and chronic diseases across Health and Care Jersey (HCJ).
Act as a clinical expert in the assessment, diagnosis and management of infants, children and young people with:
- Faltering growth, complex feeding issues, food allergies/ intolerances
- Coeliac disease, IBD, GI disorders
- Diabetes (type 1)
- Neurodivergence and enteral feeding (including home enteral care)
- Neonatal nutrition (including NICU/SCBU support, breast milk fortication, growth monitoring, parenteral nutrition input)
- Outpatients and community paediatric clinics.
The post holder will also take responsibility for developing the service, supporting governance and providing specialist advice across the wider health and social care system.
The post holder is expected to work independently as the sole paediatric dietitian within the service, with access to professional supervision and peer support via external networks and/ or remote colleagues.
About us
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunitiesworking with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where youre exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
Extraordinary, every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as a senior dietitian, providing evidence-based nutritional information and support to
patients and their families across primary and secondary care.
Manage a delegated caseload of paediatric patients with a variety of acute and chronic
diseases with clinical support from specialist paediatric dietitian. Ensure their treatment is
evidence based and patient centred. Assess, plan and implement interventions.
Clinical caseload: Acute paediatric ward, Weight management, faltering growth, non-IgE mediated allergy.
Act as an independent practitioner and be professionally and
legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of their own work.
Provide Dietetic
treatment to a delegated caseload using evidence-based patient centred
principles to assess, implement and evaluate interventions.
Interpret medical, biochemical and pharmacological
information, and incorporate into dietetic plans as appropriate.
Recommend and discuss treatment options with the Consultant
Paediatricians/General Practitioners / Referring Agents/ specialist nurses.
Develop nutritional care plans for a caseload of patients
based on assessment of medical, social, cultural and psychological factors.
Monitor and review the aims and targets.
Act as a resource on aspects of general nutrition to
patients, carers, other health and education professionals, including GPs,
consultants, and student dietitians.
To cover patients from the Dietetic team based with as
caseload requires
Liaise with supervising/Specialist
Dietitians regarding complex patients to agree appropriate management.
When appropriate liaise with members of the health care team
and/or specialist Dietitians regarding further management of patients in your
caseload once they have been discharged from your Dietetic care.
Decide priorities for own work, balancing other patient
related and professional demands in consultation with the Head of Nutrition
& Dietetics.
Recommend prescription of oral and enteral nutritional
products to medical practitioners in primary and secondary care on behalf of
patients and advise on their safe usage.
Contribute to the delivery of education programmes to staff
and patients within delegated caseload.
One to one dietetic counselling, as well as group education
to staff, patients and their families will be included in this post.
To participate in dietetic/MDT/ specialist team meetings and
case conferences to discuss the nutritional management of patients.
Contribute to the training and development of Dietetic
students and Dietetic Assistants. Support senior staff with service developments
and input into policy, guideline and procedure development as well as
departmental audits. This will include updating and development of nutrition
and diet literature and resources and to ensure this is nonbiased and evidence
based /best practice.
To attend and participate in regular dietetic team meetings.
To deliver dietetic care in accordance with Nutrition &
Dietetic service standard, organisational policies, clinical governance,
National Professional Standards of Practice and the Health & Care
Professions Council (HCPC) Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics.
Maintain appropriate,
accurate and timely patient records in line with Nutrition & Dietetic
service policy, GDPR, HCPC, BDA and Jersey Data Protection Law.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as a senior dietitian, providing evidence-based nutritional information and support to
patients and their families across primary and secondary care.
Manage a delegated caseload of paediatric patients with a variety of acute and chronic
diseases with clinical support from specialist paediatric dietitian. Ensure their treatment is
evidence based and patient centred. Assess, plan and implement interventions.
Clinical caseload: Acute paediatric ward, Weight management, faltering growth, non-IgE mediated allergy.
Act as an independent practitioner and be professionally and
legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of their own work.
Provide Dietetic
treatment to a delegated caseload using evidence-based patient centred
principles to assess, implement and evaluate interventions.
Interpret medical, biochemical and pharmacological
information, and incorporate into dietetic plans as appropriate.
Recommend and discuss treatment options with the Consultant
Paediatricians/General Practitioners / Referring Agents/ specialist nurses.
Develop nutritional care plans for a caseload of patients
based on assessment of medical, social, cultural and psychological factors.
Monitor and review the aims and targets.
Act as a resource on aspects of general nutrition to
patients, carers, other health and education professionals, including GPs,
consultants, and student dietitians.
To cover patients from the Dietetic team based with as
caseload requires
Liaise with supervising/Specialist
Dietitians regarding complex patients to agree appropriate management.
When appropriate liaise with members of the health care team
and/or specialist Dietitians regarding further management of patients in your
caseload once they have been discharged from your Dietetic care.
Decide priorities for own work, balancing other patient
related and professional demands in consultation with the Head of Nutrition
& Dietetics.
Recommend prescription of oral and enteral nutritional
products to medical practitioners in primary and secondary care on behalf of
patients and advise on their safe usage.
Contribute to the delivery of education programmes to staff
and patients within delegated caseload.
One to one dietetic counselling, as well as group education
to staff, patients and their families will be included in this post.
To participate in dietetic/MDT/ specialist team meetings and
case conferences to discuss the nutritional management of patients.
Contribute to the training and development of Dietetic
students and Dietetic Assistants. Support senior staff with service developments
and input into policy, guideline and procedure development as well as
departmental audits. This will include updating and development of nutrition
and diet literature and resources and to ensure this is nonbiased and evidence
based /best practice.
To attend and participate in regular dietetic team meetings.
To deliver dietetic care in accordance with Nutrition &
Dietetic service standard, organisational policies, clinical governance,
National Professional Standards of Practice and the Health & Care
Professions Council (HCPC) Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics.
Maintain appropriate,
accurate and timely patient records in line with Nutrition & Dietetic
service policy, GDPR, HCPC, BDA and Jersey Data Protection Law.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Hons Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics or Postgraduate Diploma/ MSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics.
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Dietetic Association (BDA).
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
- Accredited post registration training in relevant areas.
- Membership to BDA Specialist Interest group.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Hons Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics or Postgraduate Diploma/ MSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics.
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Dietetic Association (BDA).
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
- Accredited post registration training in relevant areas.
- Membership to BDA Specialist Interest group.
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.
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.
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
Health and Community Services
Address
Government Of Jersey Health Care Jersey
Jersey General Hospital
St. Helier
Jersey
Channel Islands
JE2 3RR
Jersey
Employer's website
https://www.gov.je (Opens in a new tab)