Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Dietitian

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Birmingham seeks a Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Dietitian to provide expert care and education for diabetes patients. You will play a pivotal role in a multidisciplinary team, focusing on assessments, management plans, and educational programs. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication and clinical skills and have a passion for enhancing patient care. This role offers professional development opportunities and aims to create an inclusive work culture.

Benefits

Continuous professional development

Opportunity for research and audits

Qualifications

• Demonstration of significant experience in managing/leading others.
• Experience of training other staff/students.
• Understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Act as a source of expertise in diabetes specialist dietetic care.
• Provide structured DAFNE and VICTOR education for people with diabetes.
• Develop individualised patient management plans.

Skills

Clinical experience managing complex caseloads

Training in specialist area

Effective communication skills

Autonomy in patient management

Education

Current Registration with HCPC

Good standard of general education (GCSEs)

Evidence of further postgraduate study in specialist area

Job description

Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Dietitian

The closing date is 10 December 2025

Are you an experienced Diabetes Dietitian who has a passion for providing excellent care for people with Diabetes? This post will utilise your diabetes dietetic skills but give you the opportunity to further specialise by working in some of our specialist MDT clinics.

Our service provides a specialist service in Diabetes nutrition across Acute and Community settings, to provide support across the lifespan from antenatal care, young adults through to older adults and from those newly diagnosed to those living with diabetes for over 50 years. We support many specialist clinics including neuropathy, joint renal/diabetes, and have a well established insulin pump service and form part of regional islet cell transplant clinic. We are a DAFNE centre so group education is a core part of our role.

This post is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive and forward thinking large diabetes multidisciplinary team. You will be led by the Clinical Specialist Diabetes Dietitian across Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospital sites. You will work closely with 3 other Band 7 Specialist Diabetes Dietitians in your team and also be supported by our Band 6 dietitian and band 4 dietetic assistant post. You will part of an innovative Diabetes multidisciplinary team who highly value the dietetic role within the team. Continuous professional development is encouraged with the opportunity to be involved with research, audit and presenting at conferences.

Main duties of the job

You will act as a source of expertise in diabetes specialist dietetic care for patients, their families, medical staff, and other health care professionals.

You will have an integral role within our enthusiastic multidisciplinary team. Provision of training and education will be a key part of the role across the Acute setting. You will provide structured DAFNE and VICTOR education for people with diabetes – training can be provided.

You will have a varied caseload of patients which will include undertaking comprehensive assessments and formulating individualised patient management plans.

You will also assess and educate individual patients in self‑management principles including carbohydrate counting and provide effective CGM and diabetes data management platform analysis.

Excellent communication, clinical skills and the ability to be adaptable as well as work autonomously with other members of the team will be essential.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Please note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.
• Current Registration with HCPC.
• Training in management/leadership.
• Training in specialist area.
• Evidence of further postgraduate study in specialist area.

Experience

• Demonstration of clinical experience enabling post holder to manage a complex caseload of patients.
• Demonstration of significant experience in managing /leading others.
• Experience of training other staff / student.
• Previous experience of conducting audits and/or research.
• Good clinical knowledge of specialist area of team and confidence in working autonomously.
• Understanding of audit, clinical effectiveness and its importance in the provision of a quality service.
• Awareness of local needs, eg; ethnic minority and low income groups.
• Broad dietetic knowledge of relevant specialism.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Awareness and commitment to staff CPD.
• Awareness and commitment to appraisal system.
• Experience of supporting students and more junior therapy staff.

Additional Criteria

• Reliable
• Punctual
• Professional approach
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. it is essential to possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points. (Off site travel is required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc)
• Member of the BDA.
• Member of BDA specialist interest group.

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust