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Job overview

This  is an exciting opportunity to join our well established MDT diabetes team. The successful candidate will join a team of paediatric dietitians, specialist nurses, consultants, psychologist and youth worker.

This post is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your paediatric diabetes career at Band 7 level and lead the dietetic service alongside another Band 7 team member. The post holder will manage an in-patient and out-patient caseload and provide education and training to patients, families and schools.  They will also have the opportunity to actively work in the well established pump therapy service.

The post holder must have excellent communication and multidisciplinary team working skills.  Applicants should be an HCPC registered dietitian and have clinical dietetic experience at Band 6 level. Ideally they will have experience in clinical paediatric diabetes but consideration will also be given to applicants with  adult diabetes experience. 

You should be focused on providing a high-quality evidence-based dietetic service which is responsive to the changing needs of the NHS and this patient group. You will work alongside other diabetes dietitians and with colleagues within the diabetes service and the wider dietetic service within the hospital.

To discuss this opportunity further or arrange a visit please contact Emma Pointon or Nicola Jackson on 0151 252  5373 or email [email protected] , [email protected]

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist dietetic input to  paediatric diabetes patients within the Trust. This includes nutritional assessment, development and implementation of care plans and on-going review of complex in- patients and out-patients.
• To develop and implement evidence-based protocols, standards of care and patient education information within identified areas of paediatric diabetes.
• To work in liaison with the advanced specialist dietitians in more complex paediatric patients in the provision of service and the development and implementation of  protocols, standards of care and patient education information.

Working for our organisation

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, located in Liverpool UK, is at the heart of Alder Hey and is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, where we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. We care for over 30,000 children, young people and their families every year.

Alder Hey offers a number of specialist services and we are one of only two providers in the North West designated to receive the specialist children’s top-up to national tariff for this work. We are one of the two accredited major trauma centres for children in the North West and are also nationally commissioned as one of four epilepsy surgical centres, a service we provide in partnership with Manchester Children’s Hospital. As the regional cardiac surgical centre, we continue to lead in developing the cardiac network across the region to provide seamless care pathways for children with congenital heart problems. The Trust also is one of four commissioned paediatric national craniofacial units.

The Trust employs a workforce of 4,115 staff who work across our community and hospital sites. As a teaching and training hospital, we provide education and training to around 900 medical and over 800 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

Alder Hey is also a proud member of The Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership.