
Job requirements
Essential
13 listedRequirements 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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