Highly Specialist Stroke and HCOP Dietitian

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Nottingham is seeking a Highly Specialist Stroke and HCOP Dietitian to lead the delivery of high-quality nutritional care. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with a dynamic team, supporting patients across various care pathways. Candidates must be HCPC registered with a strong background in clinical leadership, risk assessment, and educational delivery. This position offers a chance to make significant contributions to service improvement while benefiting from ongoing professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Continuous professional development

Supportive working environment

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Wide ranging experience in specialist areas.
• Experience in delegating and supervising team members.
• Ability to plan and deliver clinical education.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership in Stroke and Health Care services.
• Develop strategies for dietetic services.
• Participate in audits and training for dietitians.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Evidence based practice

Excellent communication skills

Risk assessment

Education

HCPC registration

Master’s level study or working towards

Post registration education/courses

Job description

Highly Specialist Stroke and HCOP Dietitian

The closing date is 28 September 2025

Are you a Dietitian with genuine interest in helping support the prevention and treatment of malnutrition through service improvement? Would you like to be part of a team that makes a real difference, whilst expanding your knowledge and skills of service improvement within a supportive department at a large busy NHS Trust? This post is the Highly Specialist Lead Dietitian for Stroke and Health Care of the Older Person at NUH. You will play a crucial role in leading, developing and delivering high-quality nutritional care to patients within the Hyper-Acute, Acute and Stroke Rehabilitation pathways. You will also contribute to the dietetic management of the Health Care of the Older person service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder contributes to the work of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics and wider Nutrition and Hydration strategy work at NUH.

You will work as a Highly Specialised Dietitian providing clinical leadership for Stroke, Health Care of the Older Person & General Medicine. You will work closely with other dietitians & AHPs to continue to collaboratively provide an effective dietetic service across NUH. You will share a caseload with new registrants & specialist dietitians, providing supervision & mentorship, whilst also working with the wider Medicine team to continue to promote & develop the role of a dietitian in their specialist area.

The post holder will need to work with the team to develop strategies in support of this growing area. They will be involved in audit, developing referral criteria, training, & supporting the implementation of nutritional service developments. They will also support other members of the general medical team including rotational dietitians & support staff, alongside the Team Leaders.

The post holder will support internal steering groups, working groups & wider NUH nutritional governance groups. They will participate in audit, service improvement/evaluation & student training for Dietitians. The post holder is also involved in the training & development of the NUH Nutrition Excellence Leads (link nurse/HCA role) including planning & organising study days & contributing to nutrition training initiatives across the trust.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We are a diverse pathway of AHPs and support staff, employing over 600 staff, who works together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to. Our HCPC registered AHP professionals comprise of Physiotherapists, Dietitians, Occupational Therapists, Orthotists, Prosthetists and Speech and Language Therapists.

We have a Chief AHP who leads us on our strategic direction, and many of the pathway leadership team have AHP backgrounds to support our staff. There are also Practice Development Therapists to support career development for all.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

In addition to the summary below, you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert. This job involves working within inpatient settings across Health Care of the Older Person and Stroke. Acting as a source of expertise on Dietetics and Nutrition for staff, and patients including the provision of education and training, and working as a member of a departmental team with the support of the appropriate team leader.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registration
• Evidence of Master’s level study or working towards
• Evidence of post registration education/courses

Experience

• Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area
• Experience of delegating to and supervising other members of the team
• Able to plan and deliver clinical education about theory and practice to individuals, team and the wider MDT (including students)
• Knowledge of current best practice within a clinical specialty
• Knowledge of national and local standards and national guidelines
• Able to undertake evidence based audit of own practice and the practice of other staff within a specific clinical area
• Able to evaluate current research and make recommendations for change in practice and implement these changes

Analytical and judgement skill

• Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and the performance of other staff
• Risk assessment skills for the safe management and discharge of very complex patients
• Analyse information from clinical assessments and make judgements about appropriate interventions for highly complex patients
• Use reasoning skills and knowledge of a range of treatment options to formulate and deliver specialist treatment programmes
• Able to make decisions about the treatment needs of highly complex patients
• Able to make decisions about the allocation of a caseload to a team of staff
• Able to make judgements about the prioritising of caseloads when demand exceeds capacity and to re-allocate staffing resources
• Lead on the development of improvements in service delivery and clinical practice using evidence based practice to recommend changes

Communication

• Evidence of working within MDT
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to discuss treatment options and recommend best course of intervention to patients and carers using negotiating, persuasive, motivational and reassurance skills
• Be able to effectively use a range of communication skills with patients to progress treatment plans.
• Able to adapt approach in order to respect individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients
• Able to handle confidential information from colleagues, patient and carers with sensitivity
• Communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors
• Able to present clinical information to health professions at National Conference level or equivalent

Planning & organisational skil

• Able to plan the delivery of a service for a specialist area where there is variable capacity and fluctuating demand
• Able to organise and plan the activity of staff and self
• Able to organise, plan and chair meetings
• Able to lead in the development, review and implementation of relevant polices and service development, recognising and responding to wider strategic concerns

Physical Skills

• Able to use and/or manoeuvre a range of medical devices including, for example, handling/assistive and anthropometric equipment if applicable.

Other requirements

• Undertake out of hours duties as required.

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts