Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Specific days may be required to work due to clinic commitments.)
- Job ref
- 326-7265463-RB
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £23,074 - £26,404 per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Paediatric Dietitian - Diabetes
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you an experienced paediatric dietitian looking for a new challenge?
We have an exciting opportunity for a dietitian to join our team as a Paediatric Dietitian at SASH. The post is part time (18.75 hours) and permanent. You will be joining a highly motivated, experienced and friendly team of adult and paediatric dietitians and dietetic assistants.
You will work as the core paediatric diabetes dietitian with a specialist dietetic team of 0.5 senior paediatric diabetes dietitian and 0.4 paediatric diabetes assistant. You will also work closely with the Paediatric and Transition Diabetes MDT at SASH which includes specialist paediatricians, nurses, administration and a psychologist as well as access to youth workers and play therapists.
You will need to support the wider paediatric dietetic team and this role will occasionally require general paediatric dietetic work as the service requires for example covering the cystic fibrosis caseload.
This post will work with inpatients and outpatients as SASH hold the local service for paediatric diabetes and there may be travel to Crawley and Horsham Hospitals as required, as well as school and home visits.
We have an established CPD and Journal Club programme in Dietetics, as well as access for the paediatric team to local supervision and national networks. You will be encouraged and supported to continue your CPD including in specialist areas.
Main duties of the job
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
· Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
· National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
· We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.
Person specification
Criteria
Essential criteria
- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the personal specification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vanessa Phillipson
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737768511
- Additional information
ext 6127
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