Senior Dietitian-Scoliosis

Job Purpose: The initial purpose of the senior dietitian post will be to develop the dietetic service to support adolescents for scoliosis surgery to maximise their nutritional wellbeing and growth potential across the patient journey.

To provide the patients with guidance on nutrition recommendations for puberty, growth and young adulthood.

To provide appropriate nutrition support during the acute surgical period for wound care, and to maximise rehabilitation.

To work collaboratively with relevant stakeholders and community services in the development of care pathways.

Scoliosis care at the Mater Hospital will be delivered by a range of health and social care professionals, with access to OPD clinics pre and post surgery as well as the perioperative period.

Targets have been established for each pathway and KPIs will be measured, with strong expectation that these targets are achieved.

This will include work with patients who are face to face individual consultations, and the potential for using telehealth to minimise travel to the hospital.

The senior dietitian will work collaboratively with the MDT including surgeons, physiotherapists, and administration staff to facilitate the implementation of this new service in conjunction with the dietitian manager and orthopaedic clinical lead.

To work as part of the surgical trauma dietitian team in the Mater Hospital, which includes all spinal surgery, orthopaedics as well as scoliosis surgery.

Informal enquiries to:****** or phone 01-8034549.