# Clinical Team Lead Dietitian

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Woodfield House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 30 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-06T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T10:30:38.052Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Doncaster/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Dietitian/Dietitian-v8306345
- **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent team building and leadership skills
- Provent communication and inter-personal skills

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge and experience of community working
- Performance and Development Review Training
- Management Training
- Teaching qualification
- Completion of PENG clinical update or equivalent

### Experience

**Essential**

- Demonstrable experience (2 years at Band 6 level within Nutrition support enteral and oral feeding experience)
- Experience of working across primary and secondary care
- Experience in leading a team
- Proven evidence of continued professional development certificates

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree or equivalent in Dietetics
- Will be required to have a Professional Registration with the HCPC

## Documents

- [main terms and conditions (pdf, 406.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2515)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 537.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10633188)
- [rdash clinical & organisational strategy - 2023 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2789)
- [use of artificial intelligence (ai) when writing job applications (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2919)

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