Paediatric Dietitian - Band 6

Make a lasting difference to children's health and wellbeing across Wiltshire.

Join our dedicated paediatric dietetic team and play a vitalrole in delivering specialist, community based support to children and familieswho rely on our expertise to thrive.

You will provide a high quality and responsive paediatricdietetic service for patients referred by GPs, Health Visitors and Children'sServices across the north and west of Wiltshire. Your work will help shapehealthier futures by supporting children with a wide range of nutritionalneeds.

This role can be based at either Wilton Community Hospitalor Chippenham Community Hospital, with the flexibility to work from home aspart of our hybrid working model. You will also have access to team officebases at both sites, and some on site time is encouraged to support learning,development and collaboration with colleagues.

Our team delivers a blend of face to face clinics and inpatient support across community hospitals and health centres in Chippenham,Wilton, Salisbury, Amesbury, Warminster, Melksham, Trowbridge, Devizes and Savernake. Where possible, we align each clinicians working locality with their primary base to support manageable travel and work life balance. You will also contribute to virtual services offered to children and families throughout

Wiltshire, ensuring equitable access to dietetic care.

• Safely and effectively manage your own patient caseload.
• Carry out comprehensive nutritional assessments, including anthropometric measurements, using specialist equipment where needed.
• Calculate and estimate individual nutritional requirements.
• Develop safe and appropriate nutritional treatment plans tailored to each patient.
• Work with patients and families to agree on and implement the recommended dietary treatment.
• Monitor progress closely and adjust treatment plans as required.
• Review, discharge, or hand over patients in line with local procedures and clinical pathways.
• Arrange follow up appointments according to service guidelines.
• Adhere to all departmental, Trust wide, and professional guidelines to ensure safe caseload management.
• Maintain accurate, up to date patient records in line with national and local standards, including BDA guidance.
• Critically evaluate new developments in dietetic practice and share relevant insights with colleagues and your line manager.
• Provide detailed clinical information for legal purposes when required.
• Communicate sensitive or complex information to patients, sometimes in challenging or emotionally difficult situations.
• Use strong negotiation and motivational skills to support patients in making sustainable dietary and lifestyle changes.
• Provide education, guidance, and therapeutic dietary advice, and develop supporting materials to help patients understand and follow treatment plans.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leadingindependent providers of community health and care services, working withhealth and care commissioners and communities to transform services with afocus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transformadult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adultsocial care and wellbeing services.

Across England, we support communities ofmany millions and directly help more than half a million people each year
-guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.

Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be asinclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is verypopular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. Ifyoure keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply assoon as you can.

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As a Paediatric Dietitian, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £38,682 to £46,580 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our…