Clinical Lead Dietitian - Diabetes

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic Diabetes Dietitian to join on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. The role involves delivering high-quality, patient-centred diabetes care for adults, with involvement in MDT pump clinics and dietetic-led clinics at King's Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital.

We welcome applications from candidates at a lower band level who have diabetes expertise and NHS experience; knowledge of insulin pumps is essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent clinical reasoning skills and ability to interpret information for evidence-based treatment plans.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working.
• Ability to take a full systematic focused history.
• Knowledge to support safe clinical decision making in relation to discharge.
• Sound knowledge of the physiological development in term and preterm infants, taking into account gestational age, and to understand the impact this has on nutritional interventions.
• Knowledge on providing nutritional support using expressed breastmilk, human milk fortifier, infant formula, enteral and parenteral nutrition.
• Good organisational skills.
• IT literate with good presentation and teaching skills.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Oral & written communication

MDT involvement

History taking

Discharge decision making

Neonatal nutrition knowledge

Expressed breastmilk nutrition

IT literacy

Teaching skills

Organisational skills

Education

BSc Nutrition and Dietetics

HCPC registration

CPD evidence

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Diabetes Dietitian to join Sherwood Forest Hospitals on a fixed term basis to cover maternity leave.

This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care for adult patients living with diabetes. You will provide dietetic input in MDT pump clinics as well as dietetic-led clinics across both King's Mill Hospital and Newark hospital.

We are willing to consider someone currently working at a lower level who would be interested in the challenge, however you will need previous knowledge and experience of diabetes and the NHS. Knowledge of insulin pumps are essential.

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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Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 214-CSTO-8251644

Closing date: 05 November 2026

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements (Essential)

• Excellent clinical reasoning skills, be able to analyse and interpret complex information to device evidenced based treatment plans
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working
• Ability to take a full systematic focused history
• Has the knowledge to support safe clinical decision making in relation to discharge
• To have a sound knowledge of the physiological development in term and preterm infants, taking into account gestational age, and to understand the impact this has on nutritional interventions
• Knowledge on providing nutritional support using expressed breastmilk, human milk fortifier, infant formula, enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Good organisational skills
• IT literate with good presentation and teaching skills

Knowledge Requirements (Desirable)

• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of safeguarding
• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of Infection control
• Knowledge of quality improvement and audit processes to deliver service change

Qualifications (Essential)

• BSc Nutrition and Dietetics
• HCPC registration as a dietitian
• Evidence of continual professional development since qualification

Qualifications (Desirable)

• Evidence of continual professional development in relation to neonatal nutrition
• Member of the BDA paediatric group/neonatal specialist interest group
• Completion of Masters modules in neonatal nutrition (BDA module 5)
• Teaching qualification

Experience (Essential)

• Significant post registration acute hospital paediatric experience
• Post registration experience of managing neonates
• Experience of working in MDT in clinical practice
• Direct supervision of junior staff
• Supervision of students
• Professional and patient focused, with a strong commitment to providing high quality care
• Understanding of clinical effectiveness and its implications for services including experience of quality issues, audit and evidence-based practice

Experience (Desirable)

• Experience of MDT teaching

Contractual Requirements (Essential)

• Ability to work flexibly within working hours of ward/department

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. UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Service Lead Manager Cornel Lincoln, [e-mail], 01623622515

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