Specialist Dietitian

Sfh Tr; Stanton Hill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers a Specialist Dietitian (Paediatrics) fixed-term position to August 2027, maternity leave cover. You will help develop a new paediatric allergy service and educate colleagues, healthcare professionals, patients and families.

The role requires a proactive Dietitian with excellent communication, to work in a multidisciplinary team and provide expert nutritional care across inpatient settings at King's Mill Hospital.

Qualifications

• Qualified Dietitian registered with the Health Professions Council.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Member of BDA including specialist group.

Skills

Verbal communication

Non-verbal communication

Written communication

Team collaboration

Handling confidential information

Multilingual / language barrier coping

Workload planning

Supervision of students

Anthropometric measurements

Computer skills

Education

Qualified Dietitian (4 year degree)

HPC registered

CPD evidence

BDA specialist member

Tools

None specified

Job description

Main area Specialist Dietitian Paediatrics Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 10 months (until 2nd August 2027) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton-In-Ashfield Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/11/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

Job overview

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 anew 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.

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

• 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.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Home Office guidance has changed. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

We as a Trust support the use of AI and other tools to support your application. However, all personal statements and behavioural examples must be truthful and factually accurate. Your application should reflect your own personal/professional experiences and qualifications to ensure authenticity and credibility.

For the avoidance of doubt, plagiarism includes presenting the ideas or experiences of others or content generated by artificial intelligence as your own. We review all applications carefully to ensure that the information provided in your supporting statement aligns with your qualifications, work history and the duties undertaken within those roles. Your experience will also be explored further during the interview process.

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Please note that we no longer accept handwritten/paper applications and that the email address given on your application will be used for all correspondence regarding this post.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change. If a high number of applications are received, a longlisting exercise will be conducted prior to shortlisting.

Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.

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Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and then the money will then be deducted from your first salary once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.

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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.