# Specialist Dietitian: Allergy (Adult & Paediatrics)

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 32 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T10:20:48.095Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Dietetics/Dietetics-v8258715
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8258715?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Allergy Dietitian to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, working across paediatric and adult allergy services. This unique post offers the opportunity to develop specialist expertise across the full patient journey, with a particular focus on supporting adolescents as they transition from paediatric to adult care.

You will provide a highly specialist dietetic service, working with the Clinical Lead Dietitian for Paediatric Allergy, Adult Allergy Consultants and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver, develop and evaluate high-quality, evidence-based care. We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative practitioner with significant experience in paediatric or adult allergy, excellent communication skills and a genuine interest in developing expertise across both age groups.

You will act as an expert resource, support staff education, contribute to audit and service development, and help shape allergy dietetic service provision for children, young people and adults. The post is based within well-established teams at St Mary’s Hospital, with supervision, training and development from both paediatric and adult allergy services.

If you are motivated, organised and excited by the opportunity to develop this cross-specialty role, we would welcome your application. We will be interviewing the w/c 5.10.26.

### Main duties of the job

- As a Band 7 Specialist Dietitian in Allergy the post holder will be responsible for performing advanced assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex medical, physical and psychological conditions, to develop and deliver an individualised management/treatment programme, relevant to specialism.
- Following assessment the post holder will be responsible for making therapeutic and/or clinical diagnoses and treating their own caseload of specialised and complex patients/clients and maintaining associated records.
- The post holder may lead a team and be responsible for providing an advanced standard of care to patients at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, which covers a multi-cultural and diverse population.
- The post holder will supervise the work of other more junior staff and support workers.
- The post holder may be rotational and will be expected to work across all sites of the ICHNT.
- The post holder will assist the Clinical Lead in contributing to the planning, coordination, development and evaluation of the service.
- Together with other senior staff, you will act as a resource of specialist advice to the rest of the therapy service and other professions.

### 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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

### 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 recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
- Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
- Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices
- Experience of service development/change management
- Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
- Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role)

**Desirable**

- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
- Leadership of a therapy team
- Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
- Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
- Clinical research experience
- Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities

### Education/Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree (or equivalent) in dietetics and nutrition
- State registration with the Health Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area
- Clinical Educators course or equivalent

**Desirable**

- Membership of the Professional Organisation
- Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
- Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Management skills or leadership training

## Documents

- [frf form (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10572158)
- [job description (pdf, 503.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10572157)
- [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427)

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