# Therapy Lead - LWH Dietetics > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/therapy-lead-lwh-dietetics/0175a953-86b8-4886-bb91-58f89085ff68 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/therapy-lead-lwh-dietetics/0175a953-86b8-4886-bb91-58f89085ff68.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** University Hospital Aintree - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-01T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-17T09:41:10.492Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Liverpool_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Therapy_Lead_LWH_Dietetics_Dietitian/Therapy_Lead_LWH_Dietetics_Dietitian-v8214298 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8214298?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Therapy Lead – Liverpool Women’s Hospital Dietetics - Band 8a Dietitian Base: Liverpool Women’s Hospital An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Dietitian to join Liverpool Women’s Hospital (LWH) as Therapy Lead for Dietetics. This Band 8a role will provide visible clinical and operational leadership for dietetic services, ensuring safe, effective, person-centred care and supporting the delivery of high-quality services. The role is based at LWH, with professional leadership, support and collaboration through the wider Therapies Leadership Team based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. Working closely with maternity, diabetes, oncology and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will support clinical and operational service delivery and development across inpatient and outpatient pathways, helping to improve outcomes and experiences for women, babies and families. You will work collaboratively with clinical teams, senior leaders and external partners to support integrated, responsive and evidence-based care. The post holder will lead the dietetic team, including line management, recruitment and retention, appraisal, supervision, workforce planning and staff development. Applicants must have current HCPC registration as a Dietitian, significant relevant post-registration experience, evidence of leadership development, and experience of managing clinical quality, people, budgets, performance and service improvement. ### Main duties of the job You will demonstrate a coaching and compassionate leadership style, enabling staff engagement, professional development and delivery of high-performing services aligned to Trust values. Quality and safety are central to the role. You will contribute to clinical governance, risk management, audit, patient experience, safeguarding and learning from complaints and incidents. You will use data, evidence and quality indicators to inform decisions, monitor performance, develop action plans and lead improvements in practice, pathways and service delivery. You will also contribute to service planning, business cases, financial management and delivery of cost-effective services, working with colleagues to identify opportunities for innovation and transformation. Please refer to JD attached for further details. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - As part of the Therapies Leadership Team, you will work alongside other Therapy Leads, Professional Leads and Team Leads, with support from the Head Therapist and wider Senior Leadership Team. - You will help ensure operational plans and performance are closely managed, proactively identifying solutions to operational issues in line with Trust objectives, quality standards and available resources. - You will demonstrate compassionate, collaborative and coaching-based leadership, supporting staff engagement, development and empowerment across a diverse workforce. - You will contribute to strategic direction, policy implementation and service improvement within the Care Group, ensuring effective two-way communication between senior leaders and clinical teams. - You will have line management responsibility for Band 7 clinical AHPs and will support the development of high-performing, values-led teams. ### 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** - Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams - A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts. - Demonstrate the ability to lead and implement quality improvement strategies. - Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills - Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans. - Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales. - Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area. - Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls - Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation - IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems. - Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs - Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload - Deal with uncertainty in a political environment - Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day **Desirable** - Demonstrate competent project management skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on AHPs/clinical professional service. - Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy - Understanding and appreciation of diversity - Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems - Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable extensive experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls. - Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period. ### Qualifications **Essential** - First level professional registration NMC/HCPC - Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent - Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development, working towards masters - Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent - Evidence of Leadership development ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 232.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10522050) - [oh risk id form (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10522051) - [recruitment document (pdf, 383.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10532741) - [life at luhft benefits (pdf, 333.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2664) ## 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.