Job summary
Clinical Lead Paediatric Dietitian (Band 7, 0.8 WTE)
Are you passionate about making a real difference in children's lives? So are we!
If you are an experienced and forward thinking paediatric dietitian ready to take the next step in your career, then we'd love to hear from you. Join our friendly, dynamic multidisciplinary team and help shape outstanding nutritional care for children and young people. You'll be well supported by Dietetic Managers and within the MDT. This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and competencies, including research goals.
We also welcome informal chats or visits to the department.
What you'll do:
- Lead and develop high-quality paediatric dietetic services.
- Support and develop junior staff and students
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary teams
- Drive service improvements through a proactive, flexible and patient-centred approach
- Lead a service that provides outpatient and inpatient dietetic services.
About you:
You'll be passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, confident in leading others, and eager to shape future services.
Main duties of the job
You will act as an expert and autonomous Paediatric Dietitian, leading the planning, delivery, and development of high-quality paediatric nutrition and dietetic services across Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. You will provide specialist dietetic care to paediatric inpatients and outpatients, undertaking complex assessments and evidence-based management for children with a range of acute and chronic conditions.
As team leader for the paediatric dietetic specialty, you will oversee day-to-day operations, staff supervision, and service development. You will play a key role in clinical governance, developing policies, guidelines, and educational resources, and ensuring continuous service improvement. Your role will include providing expert advice and education to patients, families, and the wider multidisciplinary team, as well as supporting staff and student training within the wider dietetic service.
About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs
Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.
Details
- Date posted: 20 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: C9365-26-0136-5
- Job locations: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Job Summary The post holder will work as an expert autonomous Paediatric Dietitian, managing a specialist and often complex caseload across inpatient wards, outpatient clinics and MDT settings. They will assess, plan, implement, and monitor evidence-based nutrition care plans, ensuring safe, effective, and person-centred practice. Responsibilities include liaising with specialist centres, leading on home enteral feeding discharges, and communicating complex dietary advice sensitively to children, families, and the wider MDT.
The post holder will supervise, support, and develop junior staff and students, contribute to policy and guideline development, and promote high standards of clinical governance, safety, and service quality. They will actively participate in education, training, audit, and service improvement initiatives, maintaining up-to-date specialist knowledge through CPD.
As paediatric specialty lead, the post holder will manage day-to-day service operations, staff performance, and workload planning, contributing to strategic service development and innovation. They will uphold Trust and professional standards, ensuring compliance with HCPC and BDA codes of conduct, safeguarding, infection control, and health and safety requirements.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-graduation experience in the NHS in paediatrics.
- Be able to assume leadership responsibilities.
- Experience of working in specialist areas as part of a team.
- Experience of implementing evidence-based practice for continuous service improvement.
- Experience of supervising staff.
- Experience of appraising others.
- Experience of teaching students and healthcare professionals.
- Experience in implementing clinical governance.
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
Qualifications
Essential
- Dietetic degree
- Post-graduate modules in dietetic paediatrics
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Sound clinical knowledge in a specialist clinical area.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
- Evidence of excellent verbal communication skills including active listening skills.
- Evidence of dealing with sensitive communication issues and barriers to communication.
- Evidence of excellent written skills.
- Evidence of communication skills of empowerment and dealing with barriers to change.
- Evidence of clinical reasoning skills relating to working with complexities.
- Able to research evidence-based practice and apply to practice.
- Ability to train students to graduate level.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Evidence of training professionals in formal and informal settings.
- Ability to hold group patient education sessions.
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working.
- Evidence of dealing with situations when individuals show anxiety, anger, emotional distress.
- Evidence of delivering a high-quality patient-centred service.
- Highly developed problem-solving skills.
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
- Excellent computer literacy skills: email, data input, internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
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This advert is for Paediatric Team Lead Dietitian with Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in Worcester, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Dietitian role. The advertised salary is £47,810 to £54,710 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Aug 2026.
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