# Neonatal Dietitian

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- **Location:** Darent Valley Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** Dependant on experience
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 41.25 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-17T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03T10:50:53.374Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Dartford/Dartford_Gravesham_NHS_Trust/Dietetics/Dietetics-v8401801
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8401801?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.dvh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are very excited to have secured new funding (in line with BAPM requirements) to provide a specialist dietitian to our neonatal service at Darent Valley Hospital and we welcome you to come and join our friendly team.

You will be supported by a team of 6 Paediatric dietitians in the Nutrition & Dietetic Department and work alongside a neonatal speech and language therapist and physiotherapist in the neonatal service.

### Main duties of the job

Main responsibilities will include:

- undertaking comprehensive nutritional assessments of neonates with complex nutritional needs, applying specialist knowledge of neonatal nutrition and prematurity
- advise on suitable management treatment plans for infants and their parents/carers on the neonatal unit/in outpatient clinics
- attend ward rounds and provide highly specialised clinical advice to the neonatal team
- participate in the evaluation, policy development and improvement of clinical practice

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full clinical, managerial, education and development responsibilities please refer to the job description.

### 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant post graduate experience including at least 3 years of varied clinical experience in Paediatrics
- Experience of working with Preterm babies and Neonates
- Experience of report writing, policy and guideline development

**Desirable**

- Experience of student training

### Knowledge and skills

**Essential**

- Specialist knowledge of the physiological development of term, preterm infants and IUGR infants
- IT Literate
- Able to manage caseload
- Able to plan workload and supervise assistants and students
- Able to audit practice and make recommendation for change

**Desirable**

- Counselling skills
- Able to show evidence of implementing ideas and developing services

### Education and Training

**Essential**

- Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or post graduate diploma or equivalent qualification
- Registered Dietitian by HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council)
- 1st ,2nd and 5th BDA modules of qualification in paediatrics
- Evidence of relevant post graduate clinical education
- Evidence of CPD

**Desirable**

- Trained in facilitated learning for under-graduate practice placements
- BDA Membership
- Member of the BDA Paediatric and Neonatal groups
- PENG (Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition Group) course or other relevant experience

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