Description
Enable Ireland provides services to over 13,000 children and adults with disabilities and their families from 43 locations across 14 counties.
The organisation supports individuals and families from early infancy through adolescence, and offers a range of services for adults including personal development and independent living support.
Position Overview
Clinical Specialist Dietician
(full-time and part-time) in Dublin South East (CHO6).
Contract hours are full and part-time.
Salary scale: €68,897–€80,302 pro rata per annum (subject to LSI's).
Annual leave entitlement: 33 days per annum.
Responsibilities
Provide dietetic services to children referred into the service, including nutritional counselling and clinical nutrition support for those with complex disabilities and feeding issues.
Work as part of interdisciplinary teams supporting children across the 4 Dublin South CDNTs, focusing on low weight, complex feeding difficulties, rare neurodevelopmental conditions and specialised nutritional support.
Lead within the specialism, using clinical reasoning to provide specialist support and advice to colleagues and support their knowledge and skill development, while maintaining a clinical caseload across the Children's Disability Network Teams.
Participate in ongoing audit and appropriate work-related research/evaluation projects in areas relevant to the clinical field.
Qualifications & Requirements
Hold a recognised qualification in dietetics approved by the Dietitians Registration Board at CORU.
Be registered as a Dietitian by the Dietitians Registration Board at CORU.
Have five years full-time (or equivalent) post-qualification clinical dietetic experience, with four years full-time (or equivalent) consecutive in paediatric dietetics.
Demonstrate a proven record of clinical excellence in the specialism.
Provide evidence of continuing professional development relevant to paediatric dietetics, in the form of postgraduate qualifications or relevant courses.
Demonstrate achievement in research, clinical audit, quality improvement initiatives, practice development and teaching.
Possess the requisite knowledge and ability (including suitability, management, leadership and professional capability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
Statutory Registration
Provide proof of statutory registration on the Dietitians Register maintained by CORU before a contract of employment can be issued.
Maintain annual registration and confirm it with CORU and Enable Ireland.
Evidence of post-graduation continuous professional development, including training in the management of complex feeding problems.
Postgraduate paediatric dietetic experience, including working with children with Feeding, Eating, Drinking & Swallowing (FEDS) needs.
Postgraduate experience with children with disabilities in a community-based setting.
Knowledge of assessment and treatment of complex feeding and health issues.
Benefits
Excellent internal and external training opportunities.
Generous annual leave entitlements.
Long service reward scheme.
Pay-adjusted maternity leave.
Pay-adjusted adoptive leave.
Pay-adjusted paternity leave.
Equal Opportunity
Enable Ireland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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