An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead the Evelina London Paediatric Nutrition & Dietetic Service as a result of the current post holder being promoted. The Evelina London Lead Dietitian provides leadership and day to day management of the service across the Evelina and Royal Brompton sites and to contributes to strategic developments within the Evelina and Nutrition & Dietetics.
• Day to day management and leadership of the dietetic services at The Evelina London Hospital sites; to include organisation of ward cover, outpatient clinic cover and junior staff rotations, sickness absence cover and annual leave allocation.
• To provide expert clinical opinion to assist the strategic direction of the Nutrition and Dietetic service across the whole organisation, utilising the principles of clinical governance. This will involve expert clinical reasoning skills to provide highly specialist support and advice to dietetics and other clinical staff within and outside the organisation.
• To identify clinical research, quality improvement and data collection priorities within dietetics to drive departmental development strategy.
• To deputise for the Trust Head of Nutrition and Dietetics in their absence, lead delegated management tasks and undertake autonomous decision making in this role.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We have around 25,300 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Please see the attached job description for further details of the operational, clinical, workforce and education responsibilities of this role.
This advert closes on Monday 13 Apr 2026
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