The Leeds Children’s hospital is one of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK. We offer a wide range of secondary, tertiary and supra-regional services. Over 80% of the services we deliver are specialist including diabetes, cancer treatment, transplantation and congenital heart surgery. Other specialities also include children’s medicine and surgery, gastroenterology, cystic fibrosis, respiratory medicine, hepatobiliary services, renal medicine, neurosciences, children’s critical care, neonatal services, oncology and haematology, endocrinology, rheumatology, cardiac services, allergy, immunology and infectious diseases. We provide services for the children of Leeds and across the Yorkshire and Humber Region and in some cases further afield.
Our Children’s Dietetic Team is a large, friendly and supportive department of 36 staff, including Children’s Dietitians, Dietetic Assistants and Dietetic Associate Practitioners, Special Feed Unit Technicians and Admin staff. We are part of the wider Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Nutrition and Dietetic Service and have close links with adults.
We cover for colleagues within the multi-specialty Children’s dietetic team at times of leave and will support you with appropriate training opportunities to facilitate this.
We are committed to clinical governance and staff development through appraisal, training, research and audit. Our mission is to make a positive difference in children's lives.
You will be fully involved in student training, contributing to the provision of training programmes for A, B and C placement learners. You will have access to IT and library facilities.
Our Trust values are being patient-centred, empowered, collaborative, fair and accountable.
