Job summary
Are you interested in joining an innovative, high profile and dynamic team that prides itself on its excellent quality of care?

We are offering an opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic dietitian with an interest in paediatrics to join and grow our friendly team. You will join a multi professional team of 9 Community Paediatric Dietitians and 1 Paediatric Nutrition Nurse, with excellent administration support. It is preferable that you have paediatric experience to be considered for a band 6 post, but not essential.

This is a clinical role working with children & families referred into the service by BCHC colleagues and GPs, as well as children discharged from acute units. This is an exciting time for Paediatric Dietitians in BCHC. We are about to move into an integrated Children's service, whilst maintaining close links with dietetic colleagues. This award-winning service supports the training of dietetic students from 2 universities and staff regularly teach at Masters level.You will have a high degree of autonomy in your clinical practice and day-to-day organisation of your workload, within the context of supportive team of peers.

Main duties of the job
Free car parking is available at all sites, and you will be provided with a Trust mobile and laptop.

The Paediatric Dietitians have an excellent profile within the Trust. We also have a strong national and local profile and a reputation for innovation and partnership working. We are consistently shown to make a difference to the clinical outcomes and lives of the children we serve; in addition we receive outstanding feedback from our service users. Working as part of an integrated Children's service, there are opportunities to develop strong communication, negotiation, networking and promotion skills through liaison with other community children's multidisciplinary teams and agencies.

There is a structured approach to clinical governance and your personal development via annual appraisal, clinical supervision, mentoring and CPD opportunities. This post will provide opportunities for training, research and project work in a supportive team environment. We consistently listen to what works for the service and our staff and encourage innovation and flexibility in all its forms.

About us
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BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

We advise you to ring us to discuss the post further, and can arrange shadowing for those new to community or paediatrics if required. For an informal discussion Shirley Phillips/Jodie Owen, Paediatric Team Leaders Shirley.phillips@nhs.net Jodie.owen8@nhs.net or telephone 0121 683 2300.

Job responsibilities
Birmingham Community Nutrition has embraced new ways of working to provide a flexible approach. Free car parking is available at all sites, and you will be provided with a Trust mobile and laptop.

The department has a structured approach to clinical governance and your personal development via annual appraisal, clinical supervision, mentoring and CPD opportunities. This post will provide opportunities for training, research, teaching and project work in a supportive team environment. We offer the opportunity to complete a supplementary prescribing course. We consistently listen to what works for the service and our staff, and encourage innovation and flexibility in all its forms.

BCHC continues its position as one of the largest community NHS services in the country and Paediatric Dietitians have a strong national and local profile and a reputation for innovation and partnership working.

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification

Person Specification
Qualifications & Training

• Dietitian registered with Health Professions Council
• Evidence of Continual Professional Development
• Degree in Nutrition/Dietetics

Experience

• Significant experience of post registration clinical dietetics
• Evidence of developing, implementing and evaluating projects
• Evidence of interest in clinical paediatrics
• Evidence of multi -disciplinary working

• Experience of teaching and assessing students
• Experience of supervising staff

Skills & Knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Ability to generate written communication that is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
• Ability to work within a multicultural setting, including ability to teach groups and individuals from different backgrounds
• Ability to apply nutritional knowledge in a variety of settings
• Ability to plan and manage own time
• Demonstrates a sound knowledge and application of up-to-date evidence based clinical trends and practices

• A demonstrable understanding of dietetics within a community setting
• An ability to use information technology to maximise personal effectiveness, or a willingness to develop these skills
• An ability to demonstrate individual and team responsibility in respect of health and safety

Personal Qualities

• An ability to be very flexible in a changing environment
• An ability to work independently
• An ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working
• An ability to develop and maintain links with outside agencies
• An ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
• An ability to use tact and diplomacy where necessary

• Demonstrates innovative ideas

Other Job Requirements

• Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area

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).

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.