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Job summary
Are you passionate about nutrition and keen to build specialist expertise in the rewarding and dietetic focused area of renal care? This is an excellent opportunity to expand your clinical skills within a highly respected service. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Dietitian to join our friendly and forwardthinking Nutrition and Dietetic Department at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. This temporary maternity cover post sits within our Renal Dietetic team and is offered on a fulltime basis, although parttime and flexible working arrangements are warmly welcomed. You will be fully supported by an experienced, collaborative renal dietetic team who are committed to developing your confidence and skills while delivering highquality, patientcentred care. Working closely with the wider multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in ensuring safe, effective and evidencebased nutritional management for people living with kidney disease.
Main duties of the job
To provide part of a professional Nutrition and Dietetic care service within a Specialist area. This includes advice to in-patients, out-patients, all healthcare staff and participation in the training of student dietitians. Shows initiative in assisting and supporting the senior specialist dietitians and the Clinical Dietetic Manager in the day to day management of the department. Please see job description for further information.
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: 21 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 7 months
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 001921
- Job locations: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Renal Dietitians, Tel: 0113 2065886, Email: leedsth-tr.RenalDietitiansLeeds@nhs.net Shortlisting Date: 02.09.26 Interview Date: 18.09.26
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver specialist, evidencebased dietetic care across acute inpatient and outpatient services
- Support patients across the full renal pathway, including: Chronic kidney disease stages 3–5 Predialysis care Renal replacement therapies Posttransplantation care
- Undertake comprehensive clinical and dietary assessments to identify nutritional diagnoses
- Develop and implement individualised, patientcentred treatment plans that support safe biochemical outcomes
- Educate patients, carers and healthcare professionals on therapeutic diets and nutrition support in kidney disease
As a Specialist Dietitian, you will also contribute to service development, quality improvement and professional practice across the Dietetic Department and Renal Services. The team places high value on health, wellbeing and worklife balance, and we are proud to offer a flexible, supportive and inclusive working environment.
The post will be primarily based at St James’s University Hospital, with some crosssite working as required.
Why you should join our Team
We are committed to investing in our people so they can achieve their full potential. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides extensive training and career development opportunities across all departments and staff groups.
We foster a culture where people take pride in their work, respect one another and work collaboratively to deliver the highest standards of patient care. We offer a supportive, inclusive and productive working environment, where every role is valued.
You will join a large, friendly and dynamic Nutrition and Dietetic Department, which delivers regular professional development events and supports A, B and C placement students. The department benefits from strong clerical support and excellent access to IT and library resources.
Our Trust values are being patientcentred, empowered, collaborative, fair and accountable. If these values resonate with you, we welcome your application
What you will bring to the role
We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate the following qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge:
Qualifications:
- HCPC Registered Dietitian, please provide registration number
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Member of the British Dietetic Association (Desirable)
- Leadership skills training (Desirable)
- Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change Training (Desirable)
Experience:
Experience of working as a dietitian within an acute healthcare setting (NHS hospital experience is desirable)
Demonstrate an understanding of the specialist areas & experience of oral nutrition support and enteral feeding
Skills & Behaviours:
Demonstrate & evidence good teamworking skills
Demonstrate & evidence care and compassion when working with others.
Demonstration & evidence supervisory skills (staff/ student/ Preceptor supervision)
Practical Skills:
Demonstrate good workload management and organisational skills.
Demonstrate & evidence motivational skills
Experience of developing and delivering nutritional education or training
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.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a Dietetic role within a healthcare setting
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Able to work within a team, demonstrate initiative, confidence and excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Good written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.
- Good presentation skills in delivering training to large multidisciplinary groups of staff or members of the public (this may involve groups of more than 50 people).
- Demonstrate good office practice in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
- Be a pro-active team member of the Dietetics department at LTHT by participating in departmental development projects, attending and participating in departmental meetings and clinical updates.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate highly complex, specialised and sensitive information with empathy and understanding.
- Demonstrate the ability to provide highly complex nutrition counselling to patients requiring cognitive behavioural therapy skills and use of advanced reassurance, motivational and negotiation skills to overcome barriers to change.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyse clinical and non-clinical information to form accurate nutrition care plans in specialised areas.
- Demonstrate analytical skills in prioritising the best course of dietetic treatment in patients with highly complex clinical conditions, where nutritional goals may conflict with other on-going physical, emotional, psychological and medical problems.
- Ability to use stadiometers, anthropometric skin-fold callipers with precision and accuracy in the nutritional assessment of patients.
- Ability to perform specialised nutritional assessments, interpret and plan relevant dietetic care programmes for patients with highly complex nutritional needs and multiple medical conditions.
- Ability to correctly interpret complex nutritional impairments, biochemical parameters and fluid balance.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge in interpretation of complex clinical information to develop, monitor and complete nutritional care plans in a specialised dietetic areas.
- Demonstrate the ability to evaluate practice using evidence based practice and critical appraisal.
- Ability to work independently within appropriate professional and specialist guidelines.
- Plans and organises complex caseload. This may involve prioritising and reviewing tasks several times throughout the day to accommodate competing clinical demands.
- Responsible for communicating complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to patients including adaptation of oral and written advice appropriate to the individual.
- Responsible for motivating patients to accept and adhere to highly complex treatment where there may be significant barriers to understanding and acceptance of dietary change where developed counselling, motivational and negation skills are required.
- Demonstrates empathy and understanding of social, psychological, ethic and religious factors which affect compliance in order to facilitate long term dietary changes.
- Regularly conduct formal and informal education and training in specialised areas to multidisciplinary groups and audiences.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Awareness of current issues in specialised areas of dietetics.
- Advanced knowledge of biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology.
- Understanding of the calculations required in dietetic assessment.
- Ability to correctly interpret complex nutritional impairments, biochemical parameters and fluid balance. This will involve nutritional diagnosis including interpretation of biochemistry, anthropometrics, clinical condition, Social factors and diet histories in patients with specialised and complex nutritional needs.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge in interpretation of complex clinical information to develop, monitor and complete nutritional care plans in a specialised dietetic areas. This may include the prescription of dietary treatment, prescribable nutritional products and enteral nutrition.
- Responsible for safe discharge planning including the discharges of patients receiving home enteral nutrition.
- Ability to advise and suggest nutrition related medications.
- Knowledge of clinical governance, quality of care and evidence based practice in specialist areas.
- Awareness of national guidance and driving factors in specialist areas.
- Knowledge of current national guidelines and standards, including NSFs.
- Understanding of the nutritional management of specialist groups of patients.
- Understanding of clinical governance, quality of care and evidence based practice in specialist areas.
Personal Qualities and Values
Essential
- Willing to undergo any training as required to enable performance in the job.
- Comply with professional codes of practice, professional guidelines and departmental policies and procedures.
- Maintain strict confidentiality in the provision of dietetic care.
- Be compassionate and ethical in the provision of dietetic care.
- Demonstrate a commitment to personal and professional development.
- Patient-centred
- Collaborative
- Fair
- Accountable
- Empowered
Education, Training and Communication
Essential
- Be involved in the provision of education and training to healthcare staff, patients, care providers and students.
- Deliver training to healthcare staff, dietitians and students.
- Provide effective oral and written specialised dietetic advice and information to patients and their carers to enable achievement of dietary aims.
- Develop resources used in the education and training of patients, health professionals and the public.
- Deliver formal and informal talks on nutrition and dietetics to health care staff as required.
- Plan and deliver student training as assigned after an appropriate induction period / supervisory training course.
- Train ward staff to use dietetic resources appropriately.
- Participate in providing specialised advice, teaching and training to other members of the multidisciplinary team regarding the nutritional managements of a specialist group of patients.
- Be an active member of the in-service training programme through delivery of training sessions and tutorials at staff meetings and by attending external courses and demonstrating reflective practice.
- Communicate the nutrition and dietary treatment of patient to healthcare staff, other professionals and patient carers.
- Responsible for providing relevant dietary advice within an in-patient and out-patient setting in verbal and written forms in a format which is understood by patients and carers.
- Responsible for communicating the requirements, progress and outcome of nutritional care plans to patient care team members on a regular basis.
- Responsible for communicating patients nutritional care information to nursing, medical and therapy staff and community personnel including GPs, social care workers and other health professionals, as required.
Health, Safety and Other Requirements
Essential
- The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions.
- The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority.
- The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
- The post holder will be subject to a combination of walking, standing, sitting and climbing stairs and travelling between sites for short periods during working hours.
- The post holder may occasionally be required to carry feeding equipment e.g. infusion pumps to, or between wards.
- The post holder may frequently be exposed to distressing situations e.g. counselling terminally ill patients, aggressive and/or emotional patients or in working in critical care areas such as cardiac care.
Teamwork, Organisation and Management
Essential
- Manage own case load to a level agreed with supervisor/line manager.
- Be a key member of the multidisciplinary care team to provide integrated dietetic care.
- Shows initiative in assisting and supporting the senior specialist dietitians and the chief dietitian in the day to day management of the department.
- Contribute to developing and maintaining agreed levels of expertise of dietetic team members.
- Disseminate clinical information to other members of the multidisciplinary team by attendance and participation in ward rounds and case conference as required.
- Involved in the planning, setting and monitoring of departmental objectives and standards as assigned.
- Plans and organises complex caseload.
- Co-ordinates discharge planning of patients with complex nutritional needs, liaising with community dietitians nursing staff, GPs and other health care professionals within the locality and region to ensure safe discharge.
- Participate in departmental and multidisciplinary meetings where required to ensure integrated dietetic care.
- Provide cover for annual leave, sickness, bank holidays etc as required. This may mean the post holder is the only member of the dietetic team on site.
- Supportive to colleagues in the dietetic and specialist multidisciplinary team.
Clinical and Professional Responsibilities
Essential
- Be an autonomous practitioner, clinically, legally and professionally responsible for own caseload.
- Responsible as a clinical practitioner in a specialist dietetic field, for delivering high quality specialist dietetic care.
- Collect, analyse and record relevant patient information from clinical and patients sources to develop effective nutritional plans.
- Responsible for providing highly specialised dietary advice within an in-patient and out-patient setting, to patients in a distinct specialist area.
- Undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with diverse and complex nutritional issues where investigative and analytical skills are required to formulate accurate treatment plans.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining an agreed level of expertise by updating own specialised clinical knowledge and skills through attendance at post-graduate courses, clinical updates and in-service training.
- Participate in audit within specialist areas, involving evaluation of research and audit projects to measure clinical effectiveness and promote evidence based practice.
- Devise and implement specialised nutritional care plans for inpatients and outpatients according to current national guidelines and standards, including NSFs.
- Participate in surveys, research and audit as required.
- Responsible for participating in the development of a dietetic resource manual as required.
- Contribute to the development and application of service procedures and guidelines for specialist area which impact on other disciplines within the wider multidisciplinary specialist team.
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential
- BSc (Hons) Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent.
- HCPC Registration as a dietitian
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