Team Lead - Paediatric Specialist Dietitian Band 7 - 37.5 hours per week

Are you a passionate and experienced dietitian ready to take the next step in your career? We are looking for a dynamic and compassionate leader to join our friendly team. Your skills will shape the care of babies, children and young people across our services. You will lead a dedicated team of 4 paediatric dietitians and a dietetic assistant working across inpatient, outpatient and community settings.

In addition to team lead responsibilities, you will have responsibility for a defined cohort of patients. The team currently provide a general in and outpatient service as well as specialist diabetes service, supporting multi-allergy patients, babies on the neonatal unit and home enterally fed patients.

There is some scope for flexibility in the clinical caseload depending on successful applicants' clinical experience i.e. t he role is flexible in the clinical speciality, and will likely include some diabetes work.

You will be expected to lead on service development, audit and quality improvement projects. Collaborate with MDT colleagues and support student training and CPD activities across the wider team. We offer excellent opportunities for professional development.

If you are interested in finding out more, please get in touch.

To lead on the provision of specialist paediatric dietetic service across an inpatient, outpatient and community settings in the Swindon area.
To work as an autonomous practitioner providing expert care to children and young people requiring dietetic input.
To lead service development in across the paediatric dietetic team and to work closely with the multi-disciplinary team.
To work as team lead for the paediatric dietetic team, undertaking line management duties and to provide support for other team leads and the Head of service for Nutrition and Dietetics.

Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.

Please see attached job description.

This job description should be read alongside the Supplementary Information provided on NHS Jobs for applicants and alongside the Employee Handbook for current staff members.