# Band 7 Clinical Specialist Renal Dietitian > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-clinical-specialist-renal-dietitian/0bc9980f-5c2d-43a3-8ba2-02e44718fa73 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-clinical-specialist-renal-dietitian/0bc9980f-5c2d-43a3-8ba2-02e44718fa73.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Free Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Dietitian - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum plus inclusive of HCAS pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week (0.5 WTE) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-06T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-22T10:41:35.692Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Hampstead_Heath/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Allied_Health_Professionals/Allied_Health_Professionals-v8298439 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8298439?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Royal Free has an exciting opportunity in our Renal Team. We are seeking a Clinical Specialist Renal Dietitian for a 0.5 WTE, 1-year FTC (Maternity Cover) to work in our multi-disciplinary therapy team led by a Clinical Lead Renal Occupational Therapist and Clinical Lead Renal Dietitian, the team is made of dietitians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and therapy assistants - across inpatient and outpatient settings. Our team supports people living with kidney disease and urological conditions across three wards based at The Royal Free Hospital site, and 5 outpatient centres for low clearance, dialysis and transplantation. The Royal Free is the provider for NCL for urological care (medical and surgical) as well as being the NCL tertiary centre for chronic kidney disease management including renal transplantation. This role is based predominantly in renal outpatients based on Dialysis units across NCL. We are looking for an experienced and motivated dietitian who demonstrates exceptional understanding of the complexity of a person living with CKD. They would provide specialist nutritional care to our renal patients mostly within the Haemodialysis setting. Proven experience autonomously managing people with complex nutritional diagnoses is essential. Experience supporting the development of junior staff will be highly regarded, as will skills in quality improvement, service evaluation or audit. ### Main duties of the job Summary of detailed job description and main responsibilities outlined below: Clinical responsibilities Responsibility for patients Responsibility for policy and Service Development Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources Responsibility for leading and managing Responsibility for information resources Responsibility for Research and Development For full details please refer to Job Description and Person specification attached. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Able to comply with trust manual handling guidelines and travel to different dialysis sites. ### Experience **Essential** - Broad range of clinical experience, across a variety of clinical areas - Experience of managing renal patients - Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills) - Presentation to groups/teaching other Healthcare Professionals - Student training and/or management of junior therapists - Leadership in an audit or project, and knowledge of clinical standards in the management of chronic kidney disease - Proficient use of PC & working knowledge of Microsoft Office and nutritional analysis software **Desirable** - Experience of managing patients with CKD-MBD ### Skills and apptitudes **Essential** - Able to work autonomously and use initiative - Ability to carry out nutritional assessments, such as anthropometry, subjective global assessment, bioelectrical impedance analysis, estimation of dietary intake of macro/micronutrients - Good time management and organisational skills - Effective clinical reasoning skills & ability to reflect on own practice - Appreciation of need for personal accountability for governance issues (to include confidentiality, Health & safety and risk management) and how these affect self and others - Effective verbal communication skills with a range of patients and healthcare professionals - Effective written communication skills - Ability to treat others with compassion, dignity and respect, taking into account diversity considerations - Able to manage clinical caseload and prioritise effectively - Able to support junior staff to manage and prioritise their clinical caseload - Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary, with a willingness to be personally accountable for actions - To be proactive in service development, liaising closely with the MDT in order to promote clinical excellence - Ability to manage own time & meet deadlines - Ability to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice - Ability to recognise and challenge unacceptable behaviour. To act on this appropriately using effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness and negotiation **Desirable** - Evidence of specialist clinical knowledge in chronic kidney disease particularly relating to CKD-MBD and it’s management strategies ### Royal Free shared commitments **Essential** - Royal Free shared commitments ### Personal qualities and attributes **Essential** - Effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness & ability to negotiate - Positive attitude to change; self motivating - Motivated to achieve personal and professional goals to an excellent standard as appropriate to the job role - A helpful, positive and flexible attitude - Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately ### Education and professional qualifications **Essential** - Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent - Health Professions Council (HPC) registration - Additional qualification or BDA accredited courses or equivalent in-house training e.g. PENG clinical update, renal course - Experience of working in renal dietetics, IP, Pre Dialysis or Dialysis **Desirable** - Membership of special interest group - Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10627907) - [person specification (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10619276) - [functional requirements (pdf, 100.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10619277) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.