Specialist Dietitian

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Dietitian to join the Paediatric Dietetics Team on a fixed-term basis to support a new paediatric allergy service and maternity leave cover. You will educate, train, and empower colleagues, patients and families while contributing to inpatient nutrition care.

The role requires strong communication, teamwork and leadership skills, with opportunities to advance specialist paediatric practice.

Qualifications

• Qualified Dietitian with a 4-year degree or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Registered with the Health Professions Council (UK)

Responsibilities

• Deliver education and training to colleagues, healthcare professionals, patients and families.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide expert nutritional care in inpatient paediatric settings.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Confidential data handling

Overcome language barriers

Work planning

Student dietitians supervision

Anthropometry

Computer literacy

Education

Dietitian qualification

CPD / Continued professional development

HCPC registration

Job description

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Specialist Dietitian to join our friendly and supportive Paediatric Dietetics Team on a fixed-term basis until August 2027, providing maternity leave cover.

This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in the development and delivery of a new paediatric allergy service, making a real difference to the care and outcomes of children and their families across our organisation.

We are looking for a proactive and compassionate Dietitian with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who thrives as part of a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be confident in delivering education and training to colleagues, healthcare professionals, patients, and their families/carers, helping to promote best practice and empower those they support.

Working collaboratively with the wider acute dietetic team, you will contribute to the provision of expert nutritional care across inpatient settings.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Dietitian looking to further develop their specialist skills while contributing to an innovative and evolving paediatric service.

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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Date posted: 23 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 10 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 214-CSTO-8249592
Closing date: 05 November 2026

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree, post-graduate diploma or equivalent).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Registered with the Health Professions Council.

Desirable

• Relevant validated course.
• Member of BDA including specialist group.

Skills

Essential

• 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

Essential

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

Desirable

• Experience of working in relevant specialist area/s.

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Employer's website

Apply through our website

For questions about the job, contact

Clinical Lead Dietitian Paediatrics, Katy Conchie, [e-mail], 01623622515