# Specialist Paediatric Dietitian - Haematology

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Dietitian
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive pro rota
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 26.25 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-03T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-05-22T14:11:44.941Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Therapies/Therapies-v8024451
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8024451?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced paediatric dietitian to join the paediatric dietetic team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The service sits within the wider Children’s Therapy Team, offering the benefits of working alongside and being supported and managed by a broader allied health professional team. The post will provide specialist dietetic input to the paediatric haematology and bone marrow transplantation service based at St Mary’s Hospital, which cares for children with sickle cell disease, thalassaemia and rare red cell disorders and acts as the central hub for North West London through the Paediatric Imperial Red Cell Network and close working with the West London Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre.

This newly funded part-time Band 7 post (0.7 WTE) will support the delivery and development of the dietetic service across inpatient and outpatient pathways. The role will also contribute to the care of children and young people undergoing bone marrow transplantation, including innovative gene editing transplant pathways, in close collaboration with the Clinical Lead Dietitian for BMT/haematology and the wider paediatric dietetic team.

You will provide specialist nutritional assessment and management for children and young people with haemoglobinopathies and bone marrow failure syndromes, including support with oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition.

### Main duties of the job

- Providing a high-quality specialist dietetic service to children and young people within paediatric haematology, haemoglobinopathy and bone marrow transplant pathways - including innovative gene editing pathways across inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Assessing and managing patients with complex nutritional needs, including oral nutritional support, enteral feeding and parenteral nutrition.
- Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, providing expert dietetic advice to medical, nursing and allied health professional colleagues, and contributing to specialist clinics and ward-based care.
- Supporting the Clinical Specialist Dietitian in the development of clinical pathways, guidelines, audit, quality improvement and wider service development activity.
- Contributing to service evaluation, research activity and the continued development of an evidence-based dietetic service within paediatric haematology and BMT.
- Providing education and training to patients, families, students and members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Playing an active role in the paediatric student training programme and supporting supervision, learning and development within the wider paediatric dietetic team.

### 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.

## Job Details

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced paediatric dietitian to join the paediatric dietetic team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The service sits within the wider Children’s Therapy Team, offering the benefits of working alongside and being supported and managed by a broader allied health professional team. The post will provide specialist dietetic input to the paediatric haematology and bone marrow transplantation service based at St Mary’s Hospital, which cares for children with sickle cell disease, thalassaemia and rare red cell disorders and acts as the central hub for North West London through the Paediatric Imperial Red Cell Network and close working with the West London Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre.

This newly funded part-time Band 7 post (0.7 WTE) will support the delivery and development of the dietetic service across inpatient and outpatient pathways. The role will also contribute to the care of children and young people undergoing bone marrow transplantation, including innovative gene editing transplant pathways, in close collaboration with the Clinical Lead Dietitian for BMT/haematology and the wider paediatric dietetic team.

You will provide specialist nutritional assessment and management for children and young people with haemoglobinopathies and bone marrow failure syndromes, including support with oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition.

## 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.

## 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  Nutrition & Dietetics
- 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

### Skills/Knowledge/  Abilities

**Essential**

- Advanced knowledge of  assessment and treatment  approaches for the effective  management of relevant  conditions
- Advanced skills in the  appropriate application of a  range of techniques and  approaches to the management  of relevant conditions
- Advanced clinical reasoning and  problem solving skills
- Advanced knowledge of relevant  conditions
- Advanced knowledge of the  evidence base of the relevant  therapy area
- Knowledge of the influence of  psychosocial and cultural factors  health/illness behaviours
- Ability to remain updated with  professional practice and  research and integrate this into  daily patient management
- Ability to organise, prioritise and  delegate as appropriate and  manage time effectively
- Able to make sound judgments  and reliable decisions in a variety  of demanding situations
- Ability to keep accurate and  legible patient notes
- Understanding of clinical  governance and the implications  for therapy services including  experience of quality issues and  audit
- Ability to comprehend and work  within the Trust’s policies of data  protection, equal opportunities  and health and safety and meet  differing patient needs
- Ability to establish and maintain  good working relationships
- Ability to pass on knowledge and  skills to others in both formal and  informal environments
- Ability to lead, motivate and  inspire others
- Skills in supervision, mentoring  and coaching
- Ability to analyse activity and  outcome data accurately and  objectively

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of recent  NHS developments and  their impact on service  provision
- Advanced computer skills  for presentation and data  analysis
- Negotiation and conflict  resolution skills

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 494.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10321647)
- [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427)
- [functional requirement form (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10311204)

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