Advanced Dietetic Practitioner – Paediatric Metabolics

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts in Nottingham is seeking an experienced Dietitian for an Advanced Dietetic Practitioner role in Paediatric Metabolics. You will provide clinical leadership across metabolic services and help develop a regional paediatric metabolic service with Leicester as part of EMPMS.

You will hold a clinical caseload and drive service development. As an autonomous HCPC registered practitioner you will lead on strategic planning, patient safety, and cost-effective

Qualifications

• Significant demonstrable experience as a registered dietitian within paediatric metabolism/related specialty.
• Experience in staff management, training, and supervision of healthcare staff.
• Evidence of quality improvement, service development, and change management.
• Evidence of involvement in research and audits; applying evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide metabolic dietetic clinical leadership and strategic planning for NUH's Paediatric Metabolic service.
• Manage a clinical caseload and support pathways for inherited metabolic disorders.
• Lead on service development, audits, and education across the MDT.
• Support regional EMPMS with Leicester in joint venture and contribute to pathway development.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Service development

Autonomous practitioner

MDT communication

Research and audit

Education

Profession Specific Degree

Current registration with professional body such as NMC or HCPC

Post-registration master's level award or equivalent

Mentor/assessor and/or teaching qualification

Service Improvement methodology training e.g QSIR

Leadership course completion

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Advanced Dietetic Practitioner – Paediatric Metabolics

The closing date is 10 November 2026

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

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

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

Experience

• 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
• Experience of managing staff performance, training and development, with evidence of recent teaching, mentorship, and supervision of healthcare staff
• Evidence of recent quality improvement; service improvement and/or change management.
• Evidence of involvement in research and audit projects, implementing evidence-based practice within specialty

Communication and relationship skills

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

Analytical and Judgement skills

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

Planning and Organisation skills

• Adaptability according to the needs of the patient/s, service and organisation, safely prioritising workload to support demand in accordance with specialty/Trust pressures
• 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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

£57,528 to £64,750 a yearper annum pro rata