Specialist Paediatric Dietitian
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
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| Salary: | £39,959 - £48,117 |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO6 3LY |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 25 Aug 2026 |
| Closing date: | 6 Sept 2026 |
Summary
Portsmouth Dietitians are a friendly and supportive team of 30 dietitians and support staff providing acute and community dietetics to adults and children across the Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire Area. We cover a large university hospital, a number of smaller community hospitals and provide outpatient activity across a variety of settings. We pride ourselves on our supportive culture and offer development opportunities to internally develop our staff to enable them to progress in their career aspirations. We train student dietitians from University of Surrey and University of Winchester. The main duties of the role are varied and include providing dietetic cover to the 2 children's wards, providing cover to outpatient clinics for a range of clinical conditions including gastroenterology, neurodisability, weight management, nutrition support, allergy and enteral tube feeding, managing a caseload of community patients on home enteral feeding and providing telephone advice to a range of different health professionals. Key Responsibilities To attend appropriate ward rounds, multidisciplinary meetings and case conferences within specialist areas proving expert advice based on clinical evidence with consideration of social and psychological factors. To manage a case load of children with complex needs who might be on home enteral feeds or requiring blended diets. To manage busy outpatient clinics where the caseload is varied, liaising when necessary, with health visitors, social care and school nursing team. To judge level of patient and carer understanding adjusting information provided accordingly and to communicate with tact, empathy and understanding where information provided is unwelcome or difficult to accept e.g. long term adherence to a restricted diet. To independently provide specialist, evidence-based nutritional assessment/treatment within specialist areas, potentially involving a wide range of disease/conditions, using advanced clinical reasoning and theoretical knowledge of relevant physiology and pathology. To work with the childrens community nurses and special needs school nurses for those patients requiring artificial nutritional support in the community. To act autonomously assessing degree of risk and taking appropriate action to ensure patient safety and quality of care. To communicate accurate information regarding patients to a wide range of health care professionals within and outside of the trust and keep statistics and written records of all in patient and outpatient contacts in accordance with trust and departmental standards. To represent the dietetic service at a strategic and operational level as required by paediatric Team lead and Dietetic manager. Actively contribute to achieving the clinical governance goals/targets set by the trust and department and comply with reporting schedules for monitoring and reporting on clinical outcomes. Promote the health and well-being of staff, patients and their carers. Comply and promote compliance with Trust policies and guidelines e.g. Health and Safety, Clinical Risk and Infection Control. Contribute to the department pay and non-pay budgets to ensuring good housekeeping and economic use of resources. If you are interested in finding out more about this role then we would love to hear from you. For full job details and person specification, please refer to enclosed Job Description.