Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to develop specialist Paediatric Diabetes Dietetic skills. We would consider applicants who are currently working as Band 5 or 6 or undergraduates soon to qualify. If offered this post as a development post we would expect the candidate to work towards completion of the required Band 5 competencies within a 12 month period.

We are a small but dynamic team of Dietitians, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy. The team is based in the community across both Scunthorpe and Grimsby sites.

You will provide specialised Paediatric Diabetic Dietetic assessment & management of children aged 0-19 years within community and inpatient arena. There will also be an opportunity to develop the relevant generalist competencies required, which will be fully supported through training if you have not completed this previously. You will be part of the wider Diabetes MDT, contributing to service development, evaluation & development of pathways and will have a key role in delivery of Education and training to both parents/carer's/young people & to other professionals. You will work alongside our current diabetes trained dietitian & will also have access to supervision from the Diabetes Team our partner Trust, Hull University Teaching Hospital (HUTH) & the ability to access the Yorkshire and Humber Diabetes Network for ongoing support.,

• To be responsible for providing a specialist assessment, management & interventions for children & young people with a Diabetes across a range of settings


• To work within inpatient, outpatient & community settings, homes & schools


• To be responsible for providing a high quality specialist service to children & young people with more complex Dietetic presentations (Diabetes). To provide specialist advice & support


• To provide training/ Education as appropriate for parents/carer's/ Young People & other professionals (including Education settings)


• To take an active part within the Diabetes MDT & regular attendance at MDT clinics


• To assist the Operational Lead & Team leads in planning & developing the service. To provide second opinions where appropriate to junior colleagues. To contribute to information & data collection for reporting for commissioners & to monitor information relevant to own area of the service


• It would be expected that the Job Holder would complete B6 competencies & training within the first 12 months of the post starting if do not have suitable prior diabetes experience


• To manage a defined caseload of more complex patients using advanced evidence based/patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement & evaluate interventions, including discharge


• To provide day to day support as well a responsibility for line management of junior Band 5 & non registered staff, as delegated by your supervisor


• To supervise students on practice placement as appropriate
  
  The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.


Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt 'best practice' so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values, kindness, courage, and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.