Team Leader Dietitian

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust as a Team Leader Dietitian. This role involves leading a team within the Acute Team, supporting nutritional care and service development. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership and communication skills, alongside essential qualifications. This is an exciting opportunity to influence healthcare provision and develop your career in a diverse, supportive environment.

Benefits

Personal development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• HCPC registered dietitian with experience in nutritional support.
• Significant post-graduate experience including exposure to different specialties.
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Acute Team and provide clinical support for critical care.
• Conduct staff appraisals and support professional development.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for effective service delivery.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Organizational Skills

Teamwork

Education

Higher Qualification (MSc or above)

HCPC registration

Post-graduate training relevant to specialty

Job description

Go back Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Team Leader Dietitian

The closing date is 30 June 2025

Are you looking for the opportunity to lead a team and influence the future provision of the Acute Team services within Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust? Due to maternity leave, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term - 1.0WTE Team Leader Dietitian role at the City Campus, Nottingham.

The successful candidate will have a leadership role within the Acute Team, which supports several services in Haematology, Upper GI, General Oncology and Head & Neck Oncology, alongside supporting the Rotational Dietitians within Respiratory and HCOP pathways. You will also hold a clinicalcaseload, which is currently within the Critical Care Team at City Hospital, however for internal candidates, keeping your current speciality area will be considered and we would welcome your application. We are looking for an experienced and proactive dietitian with excellent communication, organisational, team-working and leadership skills.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with fellow Dietetic Team Leaders, Therapy Service Managers, Chief Dietetic Technicians, Clinical Leads and Clinical Dietitians within the Upper GI, Head & Neck, General Oncology, Haematology & Rotational dietetic services to develop and support staff within their roles. As the Acute Team Leader, you will support operational leadership within the Acute team (including appraisals, continued professional development opportunities, staff attendance and wellbeing) to ensure effective and efficient service delivery, promote staff development & wellbeing, as well as providing expert knowledge and support for dietetic colleagues.

The current clinical role is based within the Critical Care Team, which will include a variety of clinical conditions in the context of critical illness, providing inpatient support (including enteral & parenteral nutrition) & support the Critical Care Rehab inpatient ward rounds & outpatient clinics post discharge. You will be involved in weekly journal clubs & CPD opportunities. You will also have the opportunity to deliver teaching on Critical Care Masters courses (run by Nottingham Trent University) & support service development.

Internal candidates, keeping your current speciality area will be considered & we would greatly welcome your application. We would encourage any dietitians who are interested in the post to contact us in advance to discuss the role further.

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 endeavor to turn your job into a career!

The Dietetic service is part of the Therapies and Rehabilitation Services pathway, which is one of the pathways that together make up the Clinical Support Division at NUH.

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

Job responsibilities

Youll need to have excellent communication and leadership skills, be adaptable and confident to work autonomously and with other members of staff within a supportive Dietetic and multi-disciplinary team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated member of the team, with evidence of continuing professional development within their current role. Experience in nutritional support is essential.

Experience in Leadership is desirable; however, support and training will be provided. This role will include conducting staff appraisals; Health and Wellbeing meetings; supporting Clinical Lead Dietitians across all Oncology pathways in service development; coordinating regular meetings with the Rotational Dietetic Teams and wider Dietetic Acute Team. Experience in recruitment, risk management/ incident investigation and appraisals is desirable, however training and support will be available.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registered
• Requires specialist knowledge for area of responsibility
• Recognised post-graduate training relevant to specialty (eg either obtained MSc or completed modules
• Evidence of maintaining professional competence through CPD
• Higher Qualification (MSC or above)

Experience

• Significant post graduate experience, including wide exposure to different specialties and/or experiences at Band 6 in relevant specialty
• Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff to maximize workforce potential
• Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking
• Experience in use of appropriate outcome measures
• Previous Experiece as a team leader dietitian
• Experiece of working in different clinical settings
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
• Participation and leading /organising in-service training programmes
• Presention skills to groups of up to 25
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• Able to communicate complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
• To feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff
• Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures

Analytical and judgement

• Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options.
• Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
• Assess and manage risk in own area
• Evaluation of clinical and non-clinical interventions of self and your team
• Ability to collate information to identify trends and inform service development e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats.
• Ability to prepare annual review of services

Planning and organisation skills

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload of your self and your team, including daily tasks and longer term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities

Physical skill

• Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data
• Ability to use a range of medical devices, some of which require dexterity and accuracy

Other

• Undertake out of hours duties as required. Maintain competence in nutritional support skills

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.

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