Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated senior Dietitian to join our large dietetic team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. We are pleased to be able to offer a permanent Band 7 Specialist Dietitian post in Spinal Injuries. This post will be integral to the MDT at Princess Royal Spinal Cord Injuries Centre and work collaboratively with the wider Dietetic Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
The Princess Royal Spinal Cord Injuries Centre is one of the leading spinal cord injuries centres nationally and one of eight centres in England designated to receive and treat patients with spinal cord injuries. Serving a population stretching as far as East Anglia, it is the second largest spinal cord injury centre in the UK and the regional centre for excellence for Yorkshire, North and North-West England, the East and West Midlands and East Midlands.
The Princess Royal Spinal Cord Injuries Centre provides a lifelong service to a population of patients. Patients are referred to us from across the UK. We also care for patients whose initial hospitalisation occurred abroad.
Main duties of the job
This post will be based within the dietetic department at Northern General Hospital (NGH). You will lead on the dietetic management of spinal injuries and support the running of the acute team alongside other specialist Dietitians at NGH. You will also be expected to contribute to evidence based practice by leading/participating in appropriate research and audit. You will also be involved in the training and supervision of dietetic students. Opportunities for CPD and further study are actively encouraged within our supportive department. We are a friendly department that prides ourselves on our compassionate leadership approach. We look forward to welcoming you to the team.
The postholder will also have team lead responsibilities and as such will be expected to lead, supervise, and support Band 5 and 6 dietitians within the acute team at The Northern General Hospital (NGH).
We are looking for someone with extensive clinical experience across a wide range of specialties. Applicants should have excellent communication and organisational skills as well as proven leadership qualities.
The STH dietetic department consists of around 65 Dietitians, plus dietetic assistants, and admin staff across 3 hospital sites and Sheffield community. We are a friendly, supportive, and innovative department with a commitment to patient-centred care and best practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration dietetic experience at senior grade working within a nutrition support speciality.
- Evidence of independent working
- Able to manage a complex caseload with frequently changing priorities, and deal with interruptions
- High level of knowledge of nutritional needs and nutritional assessment of hospital in and outpatients
- High level of knowledge of a range of clinical conditions and current best practice for dietetic management, in particular those relevant to spinal injuries
- Highly competent to assess patients for enteral feeding, and expertise in enteral feeding products, equipment and regimens, and deal with minor complications
Desirable
- Experience of supervising staff
- High level of experience in the nutritional management of spinal injuries
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant degree with Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics
- Current HCPC registration
- Attainment of validated post registration qualification at masters level in nutritional support i.e. PEN clinical update
- Proven experience and knowledge of nutritional support
- BDA accredited behavioural change counselling, motivational and cognitive behavioural skills courses (or equivalent)
- University accredited clinical supervisory skills for training students
Desirable
- MSc or higher degree
- Recognised teaching course.
- Evidence based practice course
- Research and/or audit courses
- Experience leading a team of Dietitians
Further Training
Essential
- Able to balance competing priorities and meet personal and service targets within a fluctuating and demanding workload
- Well developed skills to train other health care professionals and student dietitians
- Evidence of continued personal and professional development
- Committed to engage in professional and personal development and department appraisal system and willing to undergo further training as necessary
- Able to develop educational resources to meet the varying needs of clients and carers which are evidence based
- Evidence of participation in service objectives
- Evidence of active participation in clinical governance e.g. audit projects
- Evidence of undertaking and completing audit and/or research projects appropriate to work area
- Able to use literature review search methods and can critically appraise evidence
Desirable
- Evidence of participation in research projects.
- Able to assist in the process of recruitment and retention
- Able to lead, chair meetings and contribute to operational service delivery and the development of departmental structures and systems
Other Factors (e.g. car driver/owner)
Essential
- Flexible approach to working hours.
Desirable
- Car owner/driver
Special Skills/Aptitudes (Verbal, numerical, mechanical)
Essential
- Able to document and record accurately in line with national standards
- Able to record activity and other data manually and electronically
- Familiar with and able to operate all necessary IT packages e.g. email, Word, dietary analysis, PowerPoint
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills
- Able to relate and communicate clearly at all levels with patients, colleagues and members of MDT
- Able to communicate with those with poor memory and other communication difficulties as a result of disease or treatment
- Ability to work as an integral member of MDT and as an autonomous practitioner
- Able to state the case for nutritional intervention as part of the care plan and support junior staff
Desirable
- Able to use database e.g. Excel
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This advert is for Specialist Dietitian for Spinal Injuries with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Dietitian role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 pa/pro rata for part time staff. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Jun 2026.
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