Clinical Lead Dietitian - Adult Acute

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in England is seeking an experienced Clinical Lead Dietitian for the Adult Acute dietetic team. You will lead a small team, manage patient care, oversee audits, and drive quality improvements in nutrition services. The ideal candidate will be a qualified Dietitian with strong leadership and communication skills, capable of working in a multidisciplinary environment. This role offers a chance to significantly impact patient nutrition care across the hospital.

Benefits

Excellent career development opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Must have experience as a registered dietitian relevant to specialist area.
• Able to adapt to various communication challenges.
• Experience in leading service development and policy implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the acute dietetics team and manage patient care.
• Oversee audits and training of Nutrition Champions.
• Manage own caseload of ward patients and outpatients.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Leadership and management

Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams

Problem-solving abilities

Education

Qualified Dietitian (4-year degree)

Registered with the Health Professions Council

Evidence of continuing professional development

Leadership/management training

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Clinical Lead Dietitian - Adult Acute

The closing date is 18 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Dietitian to lead our Adult Acute dietetic team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. This post offers the chance to develop leadership skills, drive quality improvement, and influence nutrition care across the hospital.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and manage small team in appraisals, sickness management, delegating and coordinating the acute dietetics team, ensuring delivery of excellent patient centred service
• Oversee service development, audits, quality improvement projects and training of Nutrition Champions
• Manage own caseload of ward patients as well as outpatient
• Build strong working relationships with multidisciplinary teams
• Represent dietetics at nutrition and steering committee and operational catering groups

The successful candidate will provide expert clinical input to adults inpatients and outpatients, develop and support team of dietitians to deliver excellent quality care to our patients.

Apply now to join our team!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree, post-graduate diploma or equivalent).
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Relevant validated course or equivalent
• Registered with the Health Professions Council
• Leadership/management training
• Member of BDA + specialist group
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
• Able to work as lead member of dietetic and multiprofessional teams, building relationships with patients/carers, and other staff
• Able to handle sensitive and confidential information
• Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations
• Able to overcome barriers to understanding
• Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, with support from team leader and multi-professional team
• Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions where there are a range of options, including both clinical and strategic issues
• Able to plan and organise workload of self and others, including daily tasks and longer term strategic planning, despite interruptions and changing priorities
• Provides supervision and support to other dietetic staff and students where required
• Able to participate in audit and research activity

Experience

• Extensive experience of working as a registered dietitian relevant to specialist area
• Additional depth of theoretical knowledge to masters level or equivalent
• Able to lead in the development, review and implementation of relevant policies and service development, recognising and responding to wider strategic concerns

Contractual Requirements

• Flexibility to meet the demands of the service
• Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
• Able to carry out anthropometric measurements accurately and use relevant equipment
• Able to use a computer keyboard and relevant computer programmes such as word, PowerPoint
• Understands and uses hospital and other systems required to support patient care

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust