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Paediatric Specialist Dietitian - Team Lead

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Location
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
Profession
Dietitian
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
10 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
26 Jun 2025

Job overview

Team Lead - Paediatric Specialist Dietitian Band 7 - 37.5 hours per week

Are you a passionate and experienced dietitian ready to take the next step in your career? We are looking for a dynamic and compassionate leader to join our friendly team. Your skills will shape the care of babies, children and young people across our services. You will lead a dedicated team of 4 paediatric dietitians and a dietetic assistant working across inpatient, outpatient and community settings.

In addition to team lead responsibilities, you will have responsibility for a defined cohort of patients. The team currently provide a general in and outpatient service as well as specialist diabetes service, supporting multi-allergy patients, babies on the neonatal unit and home enterally fed patients. There is some scope for flexibility in the clinical caseload depending on successful applicants clinical experience.

You will be expected to lead on service development, audit and quality improvement projects. Collaborate with MDT colleagues and support student training and CPD activities across the wider team. We offer excellent opportunities for professional development.

If you are interested in finding out more, please get in touch.

Main duties of the job

To lead on the provision of specialist paediatric dietetic service across an inpatient, outpatient and community settings in the Swindon area. To work as an autonomous practitioner providing expert care to children and young people requiring dietetic  input. To lead service development in across the paediatric dietetic team and to work closely with the multi-disciplinary team. To work as team lead for the paediatric dietetic team, undertaking line management duties and to provide  support for other team leads and the Head of service for Nutrition and Dietetics.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description.

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