Paediatric Specialist Dietitian

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned NHS Foundation Trust in the UK is seeking a Paediatric Specialist Dietitian to provide essential nutritional support to children in both outpatient and inpatient settings. The role involves working closely with multi-disciplinary teams on various pediatric cases and offers a supportive environment for professional growth. The ideal candidate will be a qualified dietitian with excellent communication skills and a commitment to clinical excellence. A competitive salary is offered, reflecting experience and qualifications.

Qualifications

• Qualified Dietitian with a registered status.
• Experience as a registered dietitian in relevant specialist areas.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide nutritional support to outpatient and inpatient cases.
• Handle diverse caseload professionally within MDT clinics.
• Engage in mentorship and collaborative work with the dietetic team.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Teamwork abilities

Confidentiality handling

Problem-solving judgement

Workload organization

Anthropometric measurement skills

Education

Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree or equivalent)

Registered with the Health Professions Council

Evidence of continuing professional development

Job description

Paediatric Specialist Dietitian

The closing date is 01 February 2026

Join Our Team as a Paediatric Specialist Dietitian!

Are you an experienced paediatric dietitian with a passion for making a positive impact on the lives of young people and their families? Here's an exciting opportunity to be a part of our dynamic multi-professional team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

As a vital member of our team, you'll work closely with both outpatient and inpatient cases, providing crucial nutritional support to children, working in MDT clinics e.g. allergy, coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis. Your expertise in paediatrics will shine as you handle a diverse caseload with confidence and professionalism.

We're seeking a dietitian with a passion for paediatrics, with great communication skills and aim for clinical excellence.

You will have the privilege of working under the guidance of our clinical lead for paediatric dietetics, ensuring you receive valuable mentorship and support. Plus, you'll regularly engage with our exceptional dietetic team, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.

We will accept band 5 applicant who would like to work toward a band 6 and increase their knowledge, skills and experience in paediatric dietetics.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we're driven by care and compassion. We share a commitment to our trust care values, and you'll be an essential part of this meaningful journey.

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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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree, post-graduate diploma or equivalent).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Registered with the Health Professions Council.
• Relevant validated course.
• Member of BDA including specialist group.

Skills

• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training.
• Able to work as an integral member of dietetic and multiprofessional teams, building relationships with patients/carers, and other staff.
• Able to handle sensitive and confidential information and respond to people who are distressed or anxious.
• Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations.
• Able to overcome barriers to understanding.
• Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions where there are a range of options.
• Able to plan and organise own workload, including daily tasks and longer term strategic planning, despite interruptions and changing priorities.
• Able to plan and organise the work of allocated student dietitians.
• Able to carry out anthropometric measurements accurately and use relevant equipment.
• Able to use a computer keyboard and relevant computer programmes.

Experience

• Experience of working as a registered dietitian.
• Able to apply additional depth of knowledge gained through experience to specialist area.
• Experience of working in relevant specialist area/s.

Contractual Requirements

• Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, supported by team leader/clinical lead and multi-professional team.
• Able to travel to areas within and beyond the trust if required.
• Flexibility to meet the demands of the service.

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata