Clinical Lead Dietitian - Adult Acute | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking an experienced Dietitian to lead their Adult Acute dietetic team. This role offers a chance to enhance leadership skills while managing quality improvement projects and delivering excellent patient-centered care. The ideal candidate will have strong nutrition care expertise and experience in team management. You'll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to drive improvements in nutrition care across the hospital.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in leading dietetic teams and managing patient care.
• Ability to represent the dietetics profession in multidisciplinary teams.
• Expertise in clinical dietetics for adults.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Adult Acute dietetic team.
• Oversee service development and quality improvement projects.
• Manage a caseload of ward and outpatient patients.
• Build strong relationships with other healthcare professionals.
• Represent dietetics at committees and working groups.

Skills

Leadership skills

Quality improvement

Team management

Nutrition care expertise

Communication skills

Relationship building

Job description

Overview

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.

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.

Application information

Apply now to join our team!

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

About the Trust

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.

Visa and eligibility

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Additional information

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025