Location
Doncaster, England
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata
Profession
Dietitian
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
06 Oct 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
22 Sep 2026
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Job requirements

Essential

13 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Skills

    Excellent team building and leadership skills

  • Skills

    Provent communication and inter-personal skills

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge and experience of community working

  • Knowledge

    Performance and Development Review Training

  • Knowledge

    Management Training

  • Knowledge

    Teaching qualification

  • Knowledge

    Completion of PENG clinical update or equivalent

  • Experience

    Demonstrable experience (2 years at Band 6 level within Nutrition support enteral and oral feeding experience)

  • Experience

    Experience of working across primary and secondary care

  • Experience

    Experience in leading a team

  • Experience

    Proven evidence of continued professional development certificates

  • Qualifications

    Degree or equivalent in Dietetics

  • Qualifications

    Will be required to have a Professional Registration with the HCPC

Desirable

Not listed in the available specification.

Job overview

We are seeking an exceptional Band 7 Clinical Team Lead Dietitian to lead our friendly, high-performing Community Dietetic Service. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician and leader to shape the future of community dietetics across Doncaster, combining expert clinical practice with operational leadership, service development and workforce support.

We're looking for a forward-thinking, values-driven Dietitian with a broad range of clinical experience and the ability to inspire, motivate and develop others. As Clinical Team Lead, you will provide professional and operational leadership to a skilled and dedicated team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care whilst driving continuous improvement and innovation across the service.

The successful candidate will bring excellent clinical credibility, strong operational awareness and a passion for developing services and people. You will be confident managing competing priorities, supporting performance and quality improvement, leading change and working collaboratively with colleagues and partners across organisational boundaries to improve outcomes for the communities we serve.

If you are an inspiring leader with a commitment to outstanding care, operational excellence and service improvement, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

  • Provides strong clinical, managerial and operational leadership to the Dietetic Team by acting as a role model and by promoting and maintaining agreed standards of care to improve the patient’s experience.
  • Works as an autonomous practitioner providing expert advice, assessment, education to patients, families, carers and professions in relation to specialist areas.
  • Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate evidence based person centred clinical care to patients and provide the necessary advice throughout the patients pathway ensuring partnership and integration between primary and secondary care services in specialist areas.
  • Responsible for efficient use of resources to ensure services are maintained and developed
  • Lead in the provision and evaluation of evidence based person centred clinical care to patients.

To be an expert clinical resources to members of the Dietetic team and other health care professionals to guide decision making

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

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.

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This advert is for Clinical Team Lead Dietitian with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Dietitian role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 06 Oct 2026.

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