Advanced Dietetic Practitioner – Paediatric Metabolics

Nottingham University Hospitals Nhs Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Dietitian to join as Advanced Dietetic Practitioner, leading metabolic dietetic services for paediatric patients within NUH and in collaboration with EMPMS in the East Midlands. The role involves strategic planning, service development, and expert guidance to MDT colleagues.

You will hold a clinical caseload, provide expert opinion, and drive audits and service improvements across the regional metabolic service.

Qualifications

• Essential: Profession Specific Degree.
• Essential: Current registration with professional body such as NMC or HCPC.
• Essential: Post-registration master's level award or equivalent; and/or accreditation with relevant clinical governing body eg Centre for Advanced Practice
• Desirable: Leadership course
• Desirable: Service Improvement methodology training e.g QSIR
• Desirable: Mentorship/assessor and/or teaching qualification

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership & advanced practice in management of NUH patients within a specialist area.
• Offer autonomous clinical judgment and lead in service development and audits.
• Lead the multi-professional metabolic MDT and support pathways for inherited metabolic disorders.
• Ensure safe practice and contribute to the learning and development of junior colleagues.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Autonomous practice

Teaching/mentoring

Communication skills

Research & audit

Education

Professional degree

HCPC/NMC registration

Master's degree / advanced practice

Leadership qualification

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced dietitian to join our team as an Advanced Dietetic Practitioner - providing dietetic clinical leadership across Metabolic services at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH). The successful candidate will be joining an expanding multi-professional team to develop a regional paediatric metabolic service with Leicester in a joint venture to form the East Midland's Paediatric Metabolic Service (EMPMS). The individual will hold a clinical caseload and be responsible for developing the service while working collaboratively with the MDT. As an Advanced Dietetic Practitioner, you will be responsible and accountable for the strategic planning, managing and provision of a highly specialist, clinically effective, safe and cost effective dietetic service to the Paediatric Metabolic service at NUH. You will act as an independent dietetic practitioner supporting the pathway of paediatric patients affected by Metabolic disorders where dietary treatment is the cornerstone of their treatments. You will provide expert opinion, advice and guidance to dietetic and consultant colleagues and other health professionals and lead on regular service development and audits.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to work with the EMPMS Regional Lead Nurse to provide a specialist metabolic dietetic service at NCH through strategic planning and service delivery. Working autonomously, you'll support pathways for Children and Young People with Inherited Metabolic Disorders, demonstrating initiative and innovation in service advancement. You'll provide regular expert advice to the wider metabolic MDT, incorporating research and education with evidence-based practice and advanced clinical judgment. Key responsibilities include managing a clinical caseload, providing daily operational support to team members, leading the team for effective and efficient service delivery, developing caseload management plans, identifying treatment priorities in complex situations, ensuring safe practice, and contributing to the learning of other dietitians while supporting leadership and management teams.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH

Details

Date posted: 30 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time

Reference number: 164-8323388

Job responsibilities

Please refer to full job description and person specification.

To provide clinical leadership & advanced practice in the management of patients under the care of NUH within a specialist area.

An autonomous HCPC registered team member providing a high standard of assessment and treatment/management of patients, some of whom may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentations in allocated area.

The post holders job responsibilities are aligned with the requirements of the career framework and four pillars of practice.

All HCPC registered professionals are professionally and legally responsible / accountable for all aspects of own and delegated work.

As an autonomous professional we expect all HCPC registered professionals to be aware of the current HCPC professional standards and be able to evidence these as part of the re-registration process

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Essential: Profession Specific Degree
• Essential: Current registration with professional body such as NMC or HCPC
• Essential: Post-registration master's level award or equivalent; and/or accreditation with relevant clinical governing body eg Centre for Advanced Practice
• Desirable: Mentor/assessor and/or teaching qualification
• Desirable: Service Improvement methodology training e.g QSIR
• Desirable: Successful completion of a leadership course

Experience

• Essential: Significant demonstrable theoretical and practical experience of working as a registered practitioner within relevant specialty, allowing autonomous patient management, related to clinical scope of practice, i.e. to assess; diagnose; plan; implement and/or evaluate treatments
• Essential: Experience of managing staff performance, training and development, with evidence of recent teaching, mentorship, and supervision of healthcare staff
• Essential: Evidence of recent quality improvement; service improvement and/or change management.
• Essential: Evidence of involvement in research and audit projects, implementing evidence-based practice within specialty

Communication and relationship skills

• Essential: Ability to work within, and provide leadership to, the multi-professional team, effectively communicating to establish and maintain relationships
• Essential: Ability to motivate, train and teach, supporting training pathways for multi-professional learners across NUH.
• Essential: Ability to communicate and present complex information in written and verbal formats, to individuals or groups.

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Essential: Ability to effectively identify and manage clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines.
• Essential: Ability to critically engage in research activities so that evidenced-based strategies are developed and applied to service improvements and redesign
• Essential: Ability to assess and manage risk where there may be complex/unpredictable events, ensuring safety of staff and service users

Planning and Organisation skills

• Essential: Adaptability according to the needs of the patient/s, service and organisation, safely prioritising workload to support demand in accordance with specialty/Trust pressures
• Essential: Ability to identify learning needs and opportunities for self and for others and organise own learning and development across the 4 pillars of advanced practice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: QMC campus, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom

Employer's website: Apply through our website

Contact for questions about the job

Clinical Specialist Dietitian: Gianna Blaauw, [e-mail], 07812276574

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