As the clinical and site lead for the Adult Dietetic Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping, coordinating, and delivering high‑quality dietetic services across Mid Essex. This includes day‑to‑day operational, managerial, and professional leadership, alongside responsibility for driving service development to ensure our provision remains innovative, effective, and aligned with Trust priorities.
You will act as an expert Dietetic Practitioner, providing specialist clinical leadership and serving as an essential resource for colleagues when managing complex or urgent cases. Your expertise will support consistent, safe, and excellent patient care, and you will influence the continued transformation of services to meet the needs of our population now and in the future.
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated dietitian with strong leadership skills and a commitment to service improvement.
While this post is advertised as full‑time, we welcome applications from candidates seeking a minimum of 30 hours per week across four days.
If you are ready to lead, inspire, and make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you.
* Directly manage and provide excellent leadership to the Dietetic Team.
* Effectively manage a delegated budget within set resources, and work towards releasing efficiency savings through robust management and opportunities for continuous service re‑design.
* Develop effective relationships with all agencies to improve patient pathways.
* Be responsible for the implementation of new roles and ways of working against set aims. Modernise services and support innovation.
* Be involved in the monitoring of therapy activity and liaise with relevant divisional managers to effect changes to operational services in partnership with other teams so that the service is flexible and responsive to meet the needs of the hospital and patients.
* Be responsible for the quality standards within the Dietetic Team to implement an effective service through attendance and contribution at both internal and external strategy groups.
* Demonstrate improvements in operational services through robust internal monitoring systems.
* Lead audit activity in all aspects of care.
* Contribute and engage with the MSE Therapies strategy and other projects which may contribute to this.
* Work closely with the Dietetic Leads at other sites to ensure parity of service and shared knowledge and skills.
Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesnt accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.
Band 8a
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.
Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.
We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.
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