Specialist Senior Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian

Job responsibilities

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient caseload / workload.

To work as part of the Paediatric Diabetes Service undertaking assessment of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes.

To deliver individualised dietetic treatment programmes using a broad range of skills in individual and group setting.

To continually reassess patient progress, adapting treatment plans accordingly, and developing discharge plans.

To have knowledge base of management of diabetes in paediatric patients, for both patients presenting with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This will include the use of carbohydrate counting methods.