Paediatric team leader dietitian

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Paediatric Team Leader Dietitian

The closing date is 10 June 2026

Are you looking for the opportunity to lead and influence the future provision of a dietetic service within Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust? Due to maternity leave, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term 1.0WTE Paediatric Dietitian Team Leader at the QMC campus, Nottingham.

The successful candidate will have a leadership role within the paediatric dietetic team, who support across a range of services including Oncology, Gastroenterology, General Medicine, Renal, Metabolics and Allergy. You will also hold a clinical caseload, which is within Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis. We are looking for an experienced and proactive dietitian with excellent communication, organisational, team-working and leadership skills.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with fellow Dietetic Team Leaders, Therapy Service Managers, Chief Dietetic Technicians, Clinical Leads and Clinical Dietitians to develop and support staff within their roles. As a Team Leader, you will support operational leadership within the paediatric team (including appraisals, continued professional development opportunities, staff attendance and wellbeing) to ensure effective and efficient service delivery, promote staff development & wellbeing, as well as providing expert knowledge and support for dietetic colleagues.

The clinical role is based in paediatric cystic fibrosis (CF). The paediatric CF centre at NUH cares for children and young people in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, seeing patients at the QMC and other hospitals across the East Midlands through a system of shared care. The successful candidate will have a caseload which will cover children’s wards, outpatient CF clinics at QMC and regional CF clinics. You will be a core and valued member of the multi‑disciplinary team, comprised of consultants, other allied health professionals, specialist nurses and social workers, delivering high quality evidence-based care.

We may be able to consider other clinical specialities, and will encourage any dietitians who are interested in the post to contact us in advance to discuss the role further.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, NUH is one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

The Nottingham Children’s Hospital (NCH) is based at the Queens Medical Centre campus and provides in‑patient and out‑patient care for children up to the age of 18.

The Children’s Therapy team at NCH is a friendly and supportive department who work closely alongside the wider MDT, providing excellent evidence-based care and innovative ways of working.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve.

Job responsibilities

You’ll need to have excellent communication and leadership skills, be adaptable and confident to work autonomously and with other members of staff within a supportive Dietetic and multi‑disciplinary team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated member of the team, with evidence of continuing professional development within their current role.

Experience in Leadership is desirable, however, support and training will be provided. This role will include conducting staff appraisals; Health & Wellbeing and attendance management meetings; supporting Clinical Lead Dietitians in service development; team meetings; rostering. Experience in recruitment, risk management/ incident investigation and appraisals is desirable, however training and support will be available.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered
• Requires specialist knowledge for area of responsibility
• Recognised post‑graduate training relevant to specialty (e.g. either obtained MSc or completed modules)
• Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD
• Higher qualification (MSc or above)

Experience

• Significant postgraduate experience, including wide exposure to different specialties and/or experiences at Band 6 in relevant specialty
• Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff to maximize workforce potential
• Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking
• Experience in use of appropriate outcome measures
• Previous experience as a team leader dietitian
• Experience of working in different clinical settings
• Excellent verbal, non‑verbal and written communication skills, including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
• Participation and leading /organising in‑service training programmes
• Presentation skills to groups of up to 25
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• Able to communicate complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
• To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff
• Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures

Analytical and judgement

• Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options
• Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
• Assess and manage risk in own area
• Evaluation of clinical and non‑clinical interventions of self and your team
• Ability to collate information to identify trends and inform service development e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats
• Ability to prepare annual review of services

Planning and organisation skills

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload of yourself and your team, including daily tasks and longer‑term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities

Physical skill

• Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data
• Ability to use a range of medical devices, some of which require dexterity and accuracy

Other

• Undertake out of hours duties as required
• Maintain competence in nutritional support skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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