Clinical Lead Dietitian - Diabetes

Sfh Tr; Sutton-in-Ashfield; Híbrido; GBP 49.000 - 57.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Main area Specialist Diabetes Dietitian on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave at King’s Mill Hospital and Newark hospital. This part-time role is 22.5 hours per week, Mon–Wed, with a competitive NHS salary.

You will provide dietetic input in MDT pump clinics and dietetic-led clinics for adults with diabetes, delivering patient-centred care and supporting insulin pump management. NHS knowledge and pump experience are essential.

Formación

• Excellent clinical reasoning to analyse complex information and devise evidence-based treatment plans.
• Strong knowledge of diabetes care and insulin pumps.
• Experience working in NHS settings and MDT collaborations.
• Good communication for patient care, documentation, and teaching.

Conocimientos

Clinical reasoning

Diabetes knowledge

MDT collaboration

NHS experience

Insulin pump knowledge

Communication skills

Discharge planning

Teaching skills

Descripción del empleo

Main area Specialist Diabetes Dietitian Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (until 2nd November 2027 (estimated)) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) Job ref 214-CSTO-8251644-A

Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton-in-Ashfield Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 12/11/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognisable as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

• 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 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