Community Paediatric Dietetics Team Leader
With the opening of our new hospital, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, it’s the coming together of expertise from every corner of our organisation and a show of our commitment to provide better healthcare and create more jobs and so much more.
We at the Trust actively encourage Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and disabled applicants, as well as members of the armed forces community and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce.
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 (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it.Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
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.