# Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-specialist-paediatric-dietitian/aff80675-66d1-40d6-b1f2-663507a2ff2d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-specialist-paediatric-dietitian/aff80675-66d1-40d6-b1f2-663507a2ff2d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Location:** St Bartholomew's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Dietitian - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58133.00 to £65261.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T11:50:53.849Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8376965 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8376965?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated dietitian to join our dynamic team! As part of the largest NHS acute trust in England and one of London’s busiest tertiary children’s hospitals, we provide a wide range of specialist paediatric services including Surgery, Cystic Fibrosis, Gastroenterology, Allergy, Neonatology, Neurology, Diabetes, and PCCU. Our patient population is culturally diverse, covering both some of the most affluent and socially deprived areas in the country. This senior paediatric role focuses on our well-established Home Enteral Tube Feeding (HEF) service. You will work as an integral member of the HEF team, which includes 2.1 WTE Band 7 Dietitians, and participate in joint SLT clinics as well as school clinics at local specialist schools. We are looking for someone with strong clinical paediatric dietetic experience, ideally including acute paediatrics. Excellent communication skills and a passion for working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team are essential. You will join a friendly and supportive department of 31 paediatric dietitians across three acute sites. We offer a well-established programme of quality improvement and research, and fully support CPD opportunities—making this a fantastic role to further develop your career. ### Main duties of the job To work within the multidisciplinary team and Integrated Service for Children with Disabilities, to provide highly specialized dietetic advice to children and young people receiving Home Enteral Feeding (HEF) in Tower Hamlets ; To provide outpatient clinics in these areas. Also to undertake home visits and school clinics/visits. The post holder would undertake research and audit on a regular basis to ensure that practice is evidence based. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. ### 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** - - Ability to work effectively single handedly with individuals and groups. - - Ability to demonstrate behaviour change facilitation/ motivational interviewing. - - Ability to problem solve, analyse complex clinical problems and create practical solutions to provide best clinical care. - - Leadership skills. - - Accurate anthropometric measurements and skills eg weights, heights, skinfold calipers to assess patients nutritional status and devise clinical plan. - - Ability to provide highly specialised advice concerning the care of patients. - - Proven Audit skills - - To have effective presentation skills. - - Regularly undertakes R&D activity eg. Critical Appraisal. - - Ability to take own initiative and to be the lead for clinical speciality. **Desirable** - - To have participated in research. ### Experience **Essential** - - Significant experience working in Nutrition and Dietetics and experience within paediatrics. - - Understanding of team dynamics and experience of working within a team. - - Experience of working with HEF patients - - Experience of delivering undergraduate student supervision and clinical education to graduate standard in area of speciality. - - Experience of Supervision of junior members of clinical staff. ### Qualifications **Essential** - - BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or relevant postgraduate qualification. - - Paediatric Dietetics Training - - HCPC registered - - In-depth knowledge in nutrition support and paediatrics. **Desirable** - - Member of relevant special clinical interest group - - Supervision training. - - Qualification in Paediatrics ## Documents - [jd/ps (pdf, 690.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10705332) - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.