Specialist Paediatric HEF Dietitian


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£39,959 to £48,117 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Plymouth, PL6 8UE
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Sept 2026
Closing date:	12 Oct 2026

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Summary

o To be professionally responsible and accountable for the management of own clinical caseload and to organise this effectively with regards to clinical priority and effective use of time in a variety of settings. o To work autonomously to provide highly complex advice to paediatric patients with highly complex medical and surgical conditions that are reliant on artificial nutrition support in the community. This will involve nutritional assessment (based on interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometry, clinical condition and dietary history) and development of nutritional care plans which are both realistic, practical and evidence based (based on assessment of medical, social, economic, cultural and psychological factors). o To manage and be responsible for an individual caseload of paediatric patients with a wide range of medical, neurological, physical, social and emotional needs, including life limiting and degenerative conditions in an outpatient setting. o To assess and interpret the medical diagnoses and changes in medical conditions and treatment plans of individual patients requiring artificial nutrition support and understand how it affects nutritional management. o To formulate feeding regimens based on medical condition, fluid management, biochemical and anthropometric monitoring. o To have an awareness of tube site complications and to alert appropriate health care professionals to these complications if detected. o To respond to urgent complex problems with enteral feeding tubes e.g accidental removal or blockages. Where possible to arrange emergency replacement of balloon retained gastrostomy devices or emergency assistance to clear blocked enteral feeding tubes in order to prevent hospital admissions. o To provide training to patients and carers alongside nutrition nurses on the correct procedures of care for their enteral feeding tube. o To maintain knowledge and awareness of guidelines for correct administration of medicines via enteral feeding tubes and where appropriate to liaise with the medicines management pharmacist for patient medication review. o To attend relevant multidisciplinary meetings in order to provide expert advice to clinicians regarding provision of appropriate nutrition support interventions based on clinical evidence. o To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise condition management, recovery potential, further disease prevention and during terminal care. For further details please see the attached JD & PS.

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