Band 6 Paediatric Dietitian: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Are you passionate about paediatric dietetics and looking for an opportunity to develop your specialist skills?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Specialist Paediatric Dietitian to join our friendly paediatric dietetic team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with babies, children and young people across our paediatric inpatient and outpatient services. You will manage your own caseload, including children with complex needs, working closely with families and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality, evidence based and individual nutritional care.

You will be joining service where dietitians are valued members of the paediatric MDT and where there are opportunities to develop your clinical expertise while also contributing to education, quality improvement and the continuing development of our paediatric services.

What will the role involve?

As a Band 6 paediatric dietitian you will work autonomously, while being supported by the Paediatric Team Lead Dietitian and the wider dietetic team.

You will be committed to evidence based practice and continuing professional development, and enthusiastic about contributing ideas to improve the service.

You will be joining a supportive dietetic service with opportunities to develop your paediatric knowledge and skills, and to make a real difference to the care of children and their families.

Interviews will be on 5th October

Main duties of the job

• To work as an experienced autonomous practitioner to provide a high standard of patient focused care through specialised assessment of infants and babies with enteral feeding needs, gastrointestinal conditions, nutritional deficiencies, restrictive eating/feeding difficulties or other specialist paediatric conditions.
• To plan and deliver a high-quality service to babies and children, and their families/carers.
• To participate in student training, supervision and assessment.
• To contribute to the therapy clinical governance agenda to improve the quality of the paediatric service.
• To contribute to the planning, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the paediatric dietetic service, working with the Paediatric Team Lead to identify and implement improvements.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Relevant post registration dietetic experience including experience of independently managing and prioritising a clinical caseload, undertaking nutritional assessment and developing, implementing and evaluating individualised dietetic care plans
• Experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork
• Experience of teaching groups of patients and healthcare staff
• Experience of working with parents, carers in the management of paediatric nutritional problems

Desirable

• Experience of appraising others
• Worked with both paediatric inpatients and outpatients
• Involvement in audit
• Experience of developing staff and parent/patient education resources
• Experience of providing clinical supervision and/or supporting the development of junior staff and students

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
• The ability to undertake comprehensive nutritional assessment, including interpretation of anthropometric, dietary, biochemical and clinical information
• Evidence of excellent written skills.
• Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.
• Able to research evidence based practice and apply to practice.
• Experience of assessing/managing paediatric nutritional needs.
• Able to work to time schedules to meet clinical needs of patients.
• Ability to implement practice supervision
• Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings
• Ability to carry out audit
• Ability to communicate sensitive and emotive information to colleagues/patients
• Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting
• Knowledge of assessing, infants and children to plan their dietetic care
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding children and young people and the dietitians responsibilities in recognising, documenting, sharing and escalating concerns
• Autonomous practitioner
• Ability to recognise own professional limitations and when to seek advice from senior colleagues
• Able to communicate complex nutritional information effectively to children, young people, and their parents/carers, adapting communication to age, developmental stage and individual needs
• Able to work autonomously, while recognising professional limitations and seeking appropriate support when required
• Ability to maintain an effective working relationship in team
• Self-motivated
• Relates well to staff and patients
• Caring attitude and empathy
• Professional attitude to routine/non-routine tasks
• Enthusiastic to improve patient care
• Ability to remain calm and in control during busy phases
• Ability to maintain patient confidentiality
• Ability to work flexibly to cover service needs
• Able to travel to other hospital sites
• Standard Clauses
• A Disclosures and Barring Service check will be carried out where the position is eligible for a Disclosures and Barring Service Check in accordance with the 2012 Protection of Freedom Act and the guidance issued by the DBS
• All posts working with children or vulnerable adults are required to have an Enhanced DBS checked including checking against DBS / ISA Vetting and barring lists

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent qualifications in Dietetics
• Registered Dietitian recognised by the HCPC
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable

• Member of the British Dietetic Association
• Member of a paediatric specialist interest group
• Relevant postgraduate training in paediatric dietetics (e.g. BDA modules or equivalent)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
• The ability to undertake comprehensive nutritional assessment, including interpretation of anthropometric, dietary, biochemical and clinical information
• Evidence of excellent written skills
• Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working
• Able to research evidence based practice and apply to practice
• Experience of assessing/managing paediatric nutritional needs
• Able to work to time schedules to meet clinical needs of patients.
• Ability to implement practice supervision
• Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings.
• Ability to carry out audit
• Ability to communicate sensitive and emotive information to colleagues/patients
• Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting
• Knowledge of assessing, infants and children to plan their dietetic care
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding children and young people and the dietitians responsibilities in recognising, documenting, sharing and escalating concerns

Desirable

• Experience of appraising others
• Worked with both paediatric inpatients and outpatients.
• Involvement in audit
• Experience of developing staff and parent/patient education resources
• Experience of providing clinical supervision and/or supporting the development of junior staff and students
• Ability to assist with complaints
• Able to accurately undertake and interpret appropriate anthropometric measurements in infants, children and young people
• Knowledge of infant feeding and the nutritional requirements of infants, children and young people
• Knowledge and experience of assessing and managing enteral nutrition in children and young people
• Experience assessing/managing complex paediatric nutritional needs.
• Knowledge of disseminating evidence based practice to health care professionals
• Knowledge of implementing the Clinical Governance Agenda
• resolving patient

Closing Date: 24 October 2026