Job overview

We are currently welcoming applications for a part time band 7 Paediatric Dietitian to join our friendly community team working within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Within this role the post holder will deliver paediatric dietetic care in a variety of locations including community based out-patient clinics, patients’ homes and special schools. Managing paediatric patients on home enteral feeds will form a large part of this role. The role would be well suited to a Dietitian who is passionate about supporting patients and their families through the journey from hospital to home.  

You will have the opportunity to work as part of an integrated children’s service with highly experienced paediatric community team. To facilitate effective mobile working you will be equipped with mobile working solutions such as an ipad/laptop, whilst still benefiting from a shared office space within a multidisciplinary Children’s Services hub. You will form an important part of the multidisciplinary team for children with complex needs.  

The successful candidate will have excellent leadership, organisation and communication skills. All relevant training and regular supervision will be provided and you will be supported by the wider dietetic team and Head of Dietetics. Oxleas NHS foundation trust currently provide student training for students on placement 1 and 2.  

Main duties of the job

Our Team consistently receives positive feedback from our families, and always ensures that user focus is key to delivering our service. As a forward-thinking organisation, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust strongly supports Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives, and QI training is provided to all staff. You will have the opportunity to develop in this role and contribute your skills and knowledge.  

Within this role you will deliver paediatric dietetic care in a variety of locations including community based out-patient clinics.  Clinics are well established in key locations across borough of Greenwich.

Join our friendly team in Greenwich working with children and young people. We are a well-established team that can offer fantastic support and opportunities to develop your career. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a vibrant and diverse organisation located within reach of the Kent countryside and central London. The post attracts Outer London pay weighting.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re
• We Listen
• We Care