Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Paediatric Dietitian
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Job Overview
Are you looking to develop your skills and build a career in paediatric dietetics? Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 5–6 developmental Dietitian or a Band 6 Senior Paediatric Dietitian to join our paediatric dietetics team at Wexham Park Hospital.
This role offers the opportunity to work across a range of paediatric services, including inpatient and outpatient settings, with support from an experienced paediatric team. You will gain experience in general paediatrics as well as specialist areas, including paediatric diabetes, cystic fibrosis, neonatal and home enteral feeding.
Main duties of the job
- Provide nutritional assessment and dietetic management for paediatric patients across inpatient and outpatient settings
- Deliver weekly general paediatric outpatient clinics
- Support the nutritional management of patients with eating disorders within the inpatient setting
- Participate in virtual group education sessions for patients and families
- Triage referrals and prioritise workload appropriately
- Provide training for ward staff
- Contribute to quality improvement initiatives
This is a varied role offering opportunities for autonomous working while being supported by an experienced paediatric team lead. Our department is a well-established team with dietitians working within 12 specialities. Our department values each individual within the team by supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, which creates a supportive team environment. We have a focus on encouraging continued professional development by providing internal and external opportunities for learning.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To devise an individualised dietetic management and/or treatment plan using clinical reasoning and make decisions regarding and formulate skills to utilise a range of treatment options in formulating a programme of care, carry out nutritional diagnosis and prescribe ACBS products for conditions where there are limited professional clinical guidelines
- To act as a dietetic resource for the speciality and associated clinical groups
- To provide complex outpatient clinics as required. The role requires a minimum of one outpatient clinic per week. The types of patients within this patient group include;
- To contribute to the service development, efficiency and safety in the dietetic department. The department is currently working on a quality improvement project within outpatients and you will have the opportunity to contribute towards this work.
- To be responsible for implementing the standards and policies within your speciality and/or department, and where applicable, propose changes to working practises.
- To support in the training of students on clinical placement including A, B and C placement students.
- To support the clinical supervision of junior colleagues, particularly within the specialty
- To contribute to the education of multidisciplinary groups, patients, families, carers and general public as appropriate
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For more information please see attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised degree or post graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- Basic knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance.
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Attendance of relevant accredited course
- Attendance at student supervision training
- Member of a specialist interest group
- Relevant nutrition based course post qualification
- Member of BDA
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration clinical dietetic experience
- Training and supervision to support staff and students
- Experience of Audit or Quality Improvement project
- Evidence of working as part of an MDT
- Experienced in all aspects of nutrition support – oral, nutrition support and enteral nutrition.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research
- Management of complex outpatients patients
- Leadership and first line management.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills.
- Effective MDT working
- Prioritisation of workload
- Evidence of excellent written skills.
- Communication skills
- Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel for data inputting.
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Desirable criteria
- Some basic management skills.
- Presentation skills.
- Group work skills.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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