Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian - Complex Feeding

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization is seeking a Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian to join their multidisciplinary team at the Complex Feeding Clinic. The role involves expert assessment and intervention for children with complex feeding needs, case coordination, and collaboration with various healthcare professionals. Successful candidates will possess strong clinical reasoning, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Paediatric Dietitian with specific complex feeding experience.
• Membership of professional bodies required.
• Evidence of clinical supervision and managing a caseload.

Responsibilities

• Lead on dietetic input for Complex Feeding Clinics.
• Provide expert nutritional analysis and intervention.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of interventions.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Prioritisation of own work load

Able to work under own initiative

Time management

Computer Literacy

Evidence of influencing change

Specialist paediatric experience

Specific complex feeding experience

Working as part of multidisciplinary team

Conducting audit and research

Student supervision

Supervision of junior staff

Use of electronic records/ digital health

Education

Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics

Member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA)

Membership of BDA Paediatric Group

BDA Paediatric Module

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Specialist Paediatric Dietitian - Complex Feeding

The closing date is 29 June 2025

Are you an experienced and motivated Paediatric Dietitian with a passion for supporting children and families with complex feeding needs? We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Paediatric Dietitian (0.7 WTE) to join our specialist multidisciplinary team, leading on dietetic input for our Complex Feeding Clinics.

This is a unique opportunity to provide expert assessment, nutritional analysis, and intervention for children with behavioural and medical feeding challenges. You will work closely with Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Community Paediatric Dietitians, and the wider MDT to deliver holistic care that makes a real difference to patients' nutritional wellbeing and developmental progress.

Your role will be integral to our Paediatric Complex Feeding Clinic and Multidisciplinary Behavioural and Medical Feeding Clinic, with a strong focus on case coordination, clinical leadership, and active liaison with community services.

We are looking for a compassionate, autonomous practitioner with strong clinical reasoning and excellent communication skills, able to manage a highly specialist caseload and supervise junior colleagues across the service.

Main duties of the job

Lead the dietetic intervention of thePaediatric Complex Feeding Clinic, offering high-level nutritional assessments and feeding interventions for children with complex needs.

Provide expert input to the MDT Behavioural and Medical Complex Feeding Clinics, contributing to holistic treatment planning.

Deliver detailed nutritional analysis (including food diary evaluations and nutrient content reviews), and initiate tailored feeding plans, including ONS and multivitamin supplementation trials where clinically indicated.

Monitor and evaluate the impact of interventions, including growth and changes in nutritional status, using anthropometric data and feeding outcome measures.

Liaise effectively with Community Paediatric Dietetic Services to support care planning, supervision, and seamless service delivery across pathways.

Participate in MDT case discussions and ensure timely communication of dietetic findings and plans to local teams, GPs, and paediatricians.

Provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff and students within the dietetic service.

Support service development initiatives and contribute to quality improvement within the complex feeding pathway.

About us

The post holders will join a wider paediatric dietetic team of 39 WTE dietitians and dietetic assistants who cover a wide range of specialties including inherited metabolic disease, diabetes, renal, gastroenterology, complex feeding clinic, allergy and respiratory.

The service is overseen by the Evelina London Lead Dietitian and the Paediatric team form part of the wider Guy's and St Thomas' dietetic department of over 100 dietitians, with a focus on innovation, quality, education, development and well-being.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached detailed job description, which outlines the main responsibilities of this post.

Person Specification

Skills

• Organisational Skills
• Prioritisation of own work load
• Able to work under own initiative
• Time management
• Computer Literacy
• Evidence of influencing change
• Specialist paediatric experience
• Specific complex feeding experience
• Working as part of multidisciplinary team
• Conducting audit and research
• Student supervision
• Supervision of junior staff
• Use of electronic records/ digital health

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics or equivalent qualification.
• Member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) or other body conferring professional insurance.
• Membership of BDA Paediatric Group
• BDA Paediatric Module

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£54,320 to £60,981 a yearp.a. inclusive of HCA (pro rata)