Senior Specialist Dietitian

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated Dietitian with a keen interest in Neonatal Dietetics? Do you have a passion for supporting infants and their families and carers, working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team? We are looking for experienced Dietitians to join our current Neonatal Dietitians and have up to 2.5WTE Band 7 funding, taking the service to 4.0WTE. You will be joining an established Neonatology Team with strong MDT working and support. You will work with two Band 7 Neonatal Dietitians with Dietetic Assistant and Dietetic Associate Practitioner support. We collaborate with the rest of the Dietetic Team where needed.

Main duties of the job

Dietitians working in neonatal care require a specific level of neonatal knowledge and skills to provide a safe, effective and high quality neonatal dietetic service. Dietitians with dedicated neonatal expertise are essential to support optimal growth and development while minimising clinical and nutritional risks. We are a dedicated and cohesive neonatal AHP team delivering highquality, evidencebased developmental care for babies and their families. Recent investment offers an exciting opportunity to expand our workforce and strengthen AHP provision within neonatal services across St James's University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. As we progress through a period of transformation, we are enhancing developmental pathways, improving outcomes and embedding collaborative, familycentred practice. This is an exciting time to join our fantastic team and be part of meaningful service improvement. This integrated approach supports safer nutritional management and ensures that complex feeding plans are implemented and monitored effectively. This will develop a dedicated team of neonatal dietetic professionals who can provide high quality, focussed and dedicated neonatal care giving the babies and their families the best support and nutritional plans.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Details

• Date posted: 26 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
• Reference number: 001664
• Job locations: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Name: Lisa Henry Position: Children's Clinical Dietetic Manager Email: lisa.henry@nhs.net Shortlisting Date: 10th August 2026 Interview Date: 26th August 2026

Job Summary

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated Dietitian with a keen interest in Neonatal Dietetics? Do you have a passion for supporting infants and their families and carers, working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team? We are looking for experienced Dietitians to join our current Neonatal Dietitians and have up to 2.5WTE Band 7 funding, taking the service to 4.0WTE. You will be joining an established Neonatology Team with strong MDT working and support. You will work with two Band 7 Neonatal Dietitians with Dietetic Assistant and Dietetic Associate Practitioner support. We collaborate with the rest of the Dietetic Team where needed.

Dietitians working in neonatal care require a specific level of neonatal knowledge and skills to provide a safe, effective and high quality neonatal dietetic service. Dietitians with dedicated neonatal expertise are essential to support optimal growth and development while minimising clinical and nutritional risks.

We are a dedicated and cohesive neonatal AHP team delivering highquality, evidencebased developmental care for babies and their families. Recent investment offers an exciting opportunity to expand our workforce and strengthen AHP provision within neonatal services across St James's University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. As we progress through a period of transformation, we are enhancing developmental pathways, improving outcomes and embedding collaborative, familycentred practice. This is an exciting time to join our fantastic team and be part of meaningful service improvement.

This integrated approach supports safer nutritional management and ensures that complex feeding plans are implemented and monitored effectively. This will develop a dedicated team of neonatal dietetic professionals who can provide high quality, focussed and dedicated neonatal care giving the babies and their families the best support and nutritional plans.

As one of the largest Neonatal Services in the UK (up to 64 cots), you will work with other dietitians across 2 hospital sites (LGI and St James’s) and cover areas including ICU, Surgical Newborns, HDU, Special Care, Transitional Care. Outpatient follow up is provided for babies under Neonatologist Care up to 2 years of age working alongside our Neonatal Outreach Nurses.

Why you should join our Team

The Leeds Children’s hospital is one of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK. We offer a wide range of secondary, tertiary and supra-regional services. Over 80% of the services we deliver are specialist including diabetes, cancer treatment, transplantation and congenital heart surgery. Other specialities also include children’s medicine and surgery, gastroenterology, cystic fibrosis, respiratory medicine, hepatobiliary services, renal medicine, neurosciences, children’s critical care, neonatal services, oncology and haematology, endocrinology, rheumatology, cardiac services, allergy, immunology and infectious diseases. We provide services for the children of Leeds and across the Yorkshire and Humber Region and in some cases further afield.

Our Children’s Dietetic Team is a large, friendly and supportive department of 36 staff, including Children’s Dietitians, Dietetic Assistants and Dietetic Associate Practitioners, Special Feed Unit Technicians and Admin staff. We are part of the wider Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Nutrition and Dietetic Service and have close links with adults.

We cover for colleagues within the multi-specialty Children’s dietetic team at times of leave and will support you with appropriate training opportunities to facilitate this.

We are committed to clinical governance and staff development through appraisal, training, research and audit. Our mission is to make a positive difference in children's lives.

You will be fully involved in student training, contributing to the provision of training programmes for A, B and C placement learners. You will have access to IT and library facilities.

Our Trust values are being patient-centred, empowered, collaborative, fair and accountable.

What you will bring to the role

Provide advanced, highly specialised dietetic care to infants and their families and carers at a local and regional level. This will include our inpatient and outpatient services and our programme of education. Provide and lead aspects of clinical training for dietetic learners and other staff. Support the Children’s Clinical Dietetic Manager with the day-to-day running of the team, with leadership and line management roles. Lead and co-ordinate dietetic research, audit and guidelines within Neonatology Team alongside the MDT.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.