Paediatric diabetes dietitian

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This post is to deliver the dietetic inpatient and outpatients service at Kettering General Hospital and sometimes at Northampton General Hospital to children with diabetes . As well as a sound knowledge of diabetes and new technological treatments available you will need to have behaviour change skills and be able to motivate patients to make dietary change. You will be a key member of the paediatric diabetes MDT and will work closely with children and their families both in 1:1 consultations and delivering group education sessions face to face and virtually.

• Providing dietetic assessment, advice, treatment and counselling to support behavioural change in children and young people who have a diagnosis of type 1 or 2 diabetes. This will be delivered through one-to-one consultations, group sessions, MDT clinics, home visits and school training. More of the work is now done virtually
• Autonomously managing a highly complex caseload and work with children and their carers to agree patient centred care
• Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.
• Educating patients on carbohydrate counting portions, advising on use of insulin pumps, new approaches to insulin adjustment and continuous glucose monitoring
• Evaluating patients’ progress and contribute to and implement service improvement work
• Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans.
• Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
• Managing clinical risk within own caseload and an understanding of safeguarding .
  NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
  NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
  For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document