Specialist Paediatric Dietitian
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Portsmouth, PO6 3LY
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
6 September 2026
6 days left
Job description
NHS Band 6 Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Contract Type: Permanent Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5 hours This post is full time, but consideration...
Specific Core Functions
- To provide expert advice on paediatric education which
involves nutritional diagnosis (interpretation and analysis of biochemistry,
anthropometrics, social situation, clinical condition, drug and diet history)
and the development of treatment plans (calculation of nutritional requirements
and client centred goals).
- To be responsible for the development, implementation and ongoing
provision of a high quality evidenced based effective dietetic service to
clinical areas including allergy, oncology, gastroenterology, nutritional
support (parenteral, enteral and oral), neurodisability and metabolic
conditions, alongside your dietetic colleagues.
- To manage and prioritise own workload and work within
professional code of conduct and assist administration staff in doing this.
- To initiate and participate in research and audit projects
within paediatrics in order to provide a clinically effective service providing
feedback on these locally and publishing or presenting relevant findings at
governance meetings and conferences.
- Communicate highly sensitive and complex information with
empathy ensuring that information is understood.
- Communicating and co-operating with other wards and
departments, promoting and maintaining good working relationships within
paediatric dietetics and across the organisation, giving accurate information
as required and keeping everyone informed of any untoward incidents.
Portsmouth Dietitians are a friendly and supportive team of
30 dietitians and support staff providing acute and community dietetics to
adults and children across the Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire Area. We
cover a large university hospital, a number of smaller community hospitals and
provide outpatient activity across a variety of settings.
We pride ourselves on our supportive culture and offer
development opportunities to internally develop our staff to enable them to
progress in their career aspirations.
We train student dietitians from University of Surrey and
University of Winchester.
The main duties of the role are varied and include providing
dietetic cover to the 2 children's wards, providing cover to outpatient
clinics for a range of clinical conditions including gastroenterology,
neurodisability, weight management, nutrition support, allergy and enteral tube
feeding, managing a caseload of community patients on home enteral feeding and
providing telephone advice to a range of different health professionals.
- To attend appropriate ward rounds, multidisciplinary
meetings and case conferences within specialist areas proving expert advice
based on clinical evidence with consideration of social and psychological
factors.
- To manage a case load of children with complex needs who
might be on home enteral feeds or requiring blended diets.
- To manage busy outpatient clinics where the caseload is
varied, liaising when necessary, with health visitors, social care and school
nursing team.
- To judge level of patient and carer understanding adjusting
information provided accordingly and to communicate with tact, empathy and
understanding where information provided is unwelcome or difficult to accept e.g.
long term adherence to a restricted diet.
- To independently provide specialist, evidence-based
nutritional assessment/treatment within specialist areas, potentially involving
a wide range of disease/conditions, using advanced clinical reasoning and
theoretical knowledge of relevant physiology and pathology.
- To work with the childrens community nurses and special
needs school nurses for those patients requiring artificial nutritional support
in the community.
- To act autonomously assessing degree of risk and taking
appropriate action to ensure patient safety and quality of care.
- To communicate
accurate information regarding patients to a wide range of health care
professionals within and outside of the trust and keep statistics and written
records of all in patient and outpatient contacts in accordance with trust and
departmental standards.
- To represent the dietetic service at a strategic and
operational level as required by paediatric Team lead and Dietetic manager.
- Actively contribute to achieving the clinical governance
goals/targets set by the trust and department and comply with reporting
schedules for monitoring and reporting on clinical outcomes.
- Promote the health and well-being of staff, patients and
their carers.
- Comply and promote compliance with Trust policies and
guidelines e.g. Health and Safety, Clinical Risk and Infection Control.
- Contribute to the department pay and non-pay budgets to
ensuring good housekeeping and economic use of resources.
If you are interested in finding out more about this role
then we would love to hear from you.
For full job details and person specification, please refer to
enclosed Job Description.
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are
proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are
ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and
training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital,
which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700
staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We
hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our
hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it
right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of
everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic
benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those
long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming
pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and
DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we
can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of suitable experience of Dietetics.
- Experience of paediatric dietetics.
- Experience of working in multi-professional setting.
- Experience of teaching and staff training.
Desirable
- Evidence of suitable experience in Dietetics in a range of specialities (of special relevance experience in diabetes, gastroenterology, oncology and complex nutrition support).
- Experience of UK/NHS-based Dietetic practice.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good English language skills.
- Competent practitioner with knowledge of nutrition support and clinical reasoning skills.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
- Able to set priorities and meet deadlines.
- Able to promote the role of the dietitian.
- Ability to organise complex information and to interpret it into language suitable for different groups or individuals (patients, staff, other health professionals, the public).
- Good presentation skills and ability to work effectively single handily with individuals and groups.
- Knowledge and experience of catering systems and menu planning.
- Accurate anthropometric measurement skills.
- IT skills Internet, word processing, power point and dietary analysis.
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application.
- Understanding and commitment to clinical governance and audit.
- Able to interpret research evidence and apply to practice.
Desirable
- Experience of multidisciplinary work.
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- Experience of research, audit, writing guidelines / policies, presenting to colleagues.
- Able to represent team at strategic level.
- IT skills - Excel, journal data bases.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in dietetics.
- HCPC Dietitian Registration.
- Evidence of professional development and commitment to postgraduate study.
Desirable
- BDA Member.
- Post graduate study e.g. Paediatric Group module/course, teaching/education certificate, diploma in advanced dietetic practice, PENG course, BDA specialist group member, BDA branch member, evidence of research experience/working towards master's level qualification.
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First seen
24 August 2026
Last checked
26 August 2026
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