Dietetic Clinical & Operational Lead, Renal

UHCW; Coventry; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

You will lead complex nutrition care for kidney patients, oversee MDT collaboration, contribute to audits and research, and shape service delivery across Coventry and Warwickshire, while engaging with education and development opportunities for staff.

Qualifications

• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics with HCPC registration.
• Postgraduate master’s level qualification or equivalent.
• Continuous professional development in the specialist area.
• Clinical supervisory training (where relevant).
• BDA membership and teaching/prescribing training where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the dietetic clinical care of kidney patients requiring nutrition support.
• Manage the daily operations of the kidney dietitians.
• Provide expert opinion and guidance to healthcare professionals on kidney disease and nutrition support.
• Lead clinical audit and research within nutrition support.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Nutrition and Dietetics degree

HCPC registration

Master’s qualification

Clinical Supervisory Training

Job description

Dietetic Clinical & Operational Lead, Renal

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area Dietetics Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 28 hours per week Job ref 218-AHP-B8A-8362348

Site University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Town Coventry Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 11/11/2026

Job overview

Are you a Dietitian with extensive post registration experience managing the dietetic care of patients with kidney disease? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team asDietetic Clinical & Operational Lead - Renal.

This part time, permanent role (28hrs per week), will provide both dietetic clinical leadership and operational management support for the kidney team dietitians.

The kidney team provide care for patients across Coventry and Warwickshire for both inpatients and outpatients. The Kidney Dietetic Service provides evidence-based dietetic care to optimise nutrition providing nutritional support as required, manage complications including electrolyte and fluid imbalances, and support kidney patients and caregivers. The Dietitians also engage in multidisciplinary meetings, guidance development, and collaborate on audits and research to improve the service. The team is made up of Dietetic Assistant Practitioners, Specialist and Senior Specialist Dietitians.

This is a great opportunity for the next steps in your career, and an opportunity to shape services for our patients.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership on the dietetic management of kidney patients requiring nutrition support, including highly specialised inpatient and outpatient caseloads of patients.
• To lead the daily operational management of the kidney dietitians.
• Provide expert opinion, education, advice and guidance to other health care professionals including dietetic colleagues regarding kidney disease and nutrition support.
• Lead on clinical audit and research within nutrition support.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work autonomously to lead the dietetic clinical care of patients with kidney disease who require nutrition support.
• To conduct in-depth nutritional assessments and use expert clinical reasoning skills to determine diagnosis and required intervention, alongside the MDT, as necessary.
• Calculate and establish nutritional requirements and use this to tailor advice and determine choice of nutritional management.
• To use highly specialised knowledge to provide dietetic advice and treatment to patients requiring artificial feeding. This will be achieved through regular monitoring, recalculation and adjustment of enteral feeding regimens and oral dietary advice to ensure nutritional adequacy for the patient.
• To be able to communicate highly complex nutrition and dietetic information in an understandable form to patients, staff and carers, requiring negotiation, persuasion, motivation and counselling skills including situations where there are barriers to understanding.
• To be able to lead on discussions with patients, family members and healthcare professionals about highly emotive and ethical issues regarding nutrition support including appropriateness of artificial nutrition support in palliative care and withdrawal of nutrition at end of life.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics HCPC registration Relevant post graduate master’s level qualification OR equivalent evidence of clinical dietetic development in specialist field Documented evidence of continuous professional Development in specialist area Clinical Supervisory Training (students)
• BDA member Member of relevant BDA specialist interest group Teaching Qualification Advanced communication skills training Presentation skills training Leadership training Healthcare assessment module and prescribing (only if role has an identified need for prescribing)

Experience

• Evidence of leading and developing a specialist clinical service. Experience of operationally managing staff, workload, capacity and competing service priorities. Experience of supervising, mentoring and appraising colleagues. Evidence of leading quality improvement, audit and/or service change, including evaluation of outcomes. Experience of clinical governance and risk management. Evidence of influencing service development and working effectively with senior multidisciplinary stakeholders. Advanced specialist clinical knowledge and skills in the nutritional assessment and management of patients with complex renal conditions. Evidence of managing highly complex clinical situations requiring autonomous decision-making and advanced clinical judgement. Comprehensive knowledge of evidence-based nutritional management across the renal pathway. Significant experience of working within multidisciplinary teams. Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating education and training for patients, carers and healthcare professionals. Experience of using activity, performance and service data to inform service planning, prioritisation and improvement.
• Experience of workforce planning and/or contributing to business cases and financial/resource planning Experience in research

Knowledge

• Advanced dietetic knowledge in specialist area acquired through degree qualification and continuous professional development Good working knowledge and application of national strategy, policy and guidance relevant to post and how they can be applied in planning of services Knowledge of current issues and research relevant to specialist clinical area Advanced knowledge of trends and best practice in the clinical specialism Aware of the different communication needs within a culturally diverse community and how this may impact on professional practice Sound knowledge of principles of clinical governance Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group) Understanding of the impact of local cultural, linguistic and demographic factors influencing service delivery in the specialist area. Ability to work through interpreters to gain and impart information (relevant to the client group)
• Post registration training in behavioural change and motivational interviewing

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills and the ability to adapt communication to a range of audiences and situations. Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams, providing leadership, specialist advice and professional influence where appropriate. Demonstrates professional accountability, recognising the limits of own competence and appropriate professional boundaries. Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing demands. Competent in the use of digital systems and information technology relevant to clinical and operational practice. Demonstrates commitment to continuing professional development and maintaining up-to-date specialist knowledge and practice. Demonstrates initiative and commitment to the development, improvement and promotion of the service. Evidence of leading, evaluating and developing a specialist clinical service, including service planning and improvement. Ability to identify, assess and manage clinical risk appropriately.

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Evidence of demonstrating the Trust Values (Compassion, Openness, Pride, Partnership, Improve, Learn and Respect) and the associated Values in Action behaviours in the workplace. Evidence of promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, and ensuring fair and equitable practices throughout your work experience. Evidence of promoting a culture which helps individuals live behaviours aligned to our Trust Values (Compassion, Openness, Pride, Partnership, Improve, Learn and Respect)
• Evidence of promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, and ensuring fair and equitable practices throughout your work experience. Evidence of promoting a culture which helps individuals live behaviours aligned to our Trust Values (Compassion, Openness, Pride, Partnership, Improve, Learn and Respect)

To ensure that we provide world‑class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third‑party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre‑employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre‑employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.