Community Paediatric Dietetics Team Leader
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff.Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do.
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives.
We run services from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Sandwell Health Campus, City Health Campus, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, The Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes.As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Are you an experienced clinician who is:
- Passionate to teach and inspire?
- Seeking freedom to lead?
- Innovative and driven?
Sandwell & West Birmingham Nutrition & Dietetic Services are seeking to recruit an advanced Dietitian to work in the community with babies, children and young people and their adults.
We are seeking an innovative individual who is driven to continue to grow and develop a community dietetics specialist service for our diverse population that is aspiring to be good or outstanding. Candidates will be joining a service at a time of considerable opportunity.You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders leading in a service that will strongly align with the community MDT.
The successful post holder will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in paediatric community dietetics and a proven track record of leading for quality improvement within Dietetic teams.
Our service covers all aspects of nutrition nursing & dietetic care within the Trust; for adults, paediatrics and transition services across inpatient, community and outpatient pathways. It is an exciting role at an exciting time for Dietetics, Allied Health Professionals and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust as we seek to become the leading provider of integrated care bringing lots of opportunities for future development
Main duties of the job
The successful postholder will lead our paediatric community dietitian team who work across Sandwell and West Birmingham primarily working with children and young people and their adults with a clinical focus on home enteral tube feeding and an overview of the community paediatric outpatient service.The role will have a focus on optimising MDT integration and the successful candidate will be able to work across multiple community locations; in schools, patient homes, healthcare centres and in domiciliary settings. You would be joining our existing community leadership structure working alongside our Clinical Nurse Specialist – Community Nutrition and existing Community Dietitian Team Leader (Adults) and the role will include exposure to a range of services and opportunities.
The Nutrition and Dietetics Department is an integrated and growing team of 40 dietitians and nutrition nurses; based across Sandwell and West Birmingham. We have regular departmental meetings, clinical supervision sessions and education meetings.Continuing professional development is promoted and supported.
The Department trains student dietitians from Coventry, Birmingham City University and Birmingham University College across the full range of placements.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
We have three strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached documents for further details of the job including main responsibilities.
As a team, we live our core Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. Our trust champions nutrition and hydration as a fundamental of care and takes a strongly integrated, person-centred approach where independence and early intervention is promoted and encouraged using ‘What matters to you?’ principles. We are looking for a suitably aspirational candidate who will share these core values and behaviours.
Interested applicants are encouraged to make contact to arrange a conversation or an informal visit to further understand the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Degree/Diploma in Dietetics/ Nutrition and Dietetics
- HCPC Registration
- Post registration qualification or working towards post registration qualification e.g. masters degree level in paediatrics
- BDA membership
- Membership of relevant clinical specialist interest group.
- Leadership Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Demonstration of post registration/ qualification/ experience and documented evidence of continued professional development.
- Extensive post-graduate clinical experience in general dietetics with both group and individual interventions
- Responsive to changing service needs and pressures, with a proven ability to implement change (clinically/ managerially)
- Clinical supervisory skills training and past involvement in student training
- Managerial experience of other dietetic staff/non-registered staff, supporting their development
- Experience of appraisal and performance managing staff
- Policy/protocol development/ evaluation
- Advanced practice based competencies related to artificial tube feeding
- Facilitation of student training
We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.