Clinical Lead Dietitian

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Fife (WA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Fife is seeking an experienced Dietitian to join the leadership team as Clinical Lead Dietitian for Diabetes & Weight Management. The role offers strategic and operational leadership across Diabetes and Weight Management services, with a focus on service transformation, workforce development and high-quality, person-centred care.

The successful candidate will lead a multidisciplinary team, influence service direction, and drive innovation and quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience at a senior leadership level in dietetics.
• Ability to lead teams and manage change.
• Strong collaboration across professional boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across Diabetes and Weight Management services.
• Shape service transformation through workforce development and quality improvement.
• Lead a skilled dietetics team and build effective cross-organisational relationships.
• Drive innovations in models of care, prevention, self-management and health inequalities.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Dietitian to join our leadership team as Clinical Lead Dietitian for Diabetes & Weight Management.

This is a key leadership role within NHS Fife's Nutrition & Dietetic Service, providing strategic, professional and operational leadership across Diabetes and Weight Management services. Working closely with the Head of Service and fellow Clinical Leads, you will play a pivotal role in service transformation, workforce development and the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care.

You will have the opportunity to shape and influence developments across diabetes, weight management and preventative health services at a time of significant national and local transformation.

You will lead a skilled team, providing professional and clinical leadership while shaping future services through innovation, quality improvement and service development. The successful candidate will have significant experience working at a senior level, with a proven ability to lead teams, manage change and build effective relationships across organisational and professional boundaries.

This is an exciting time to join the service as we continue to develop new models of care, expand multidisciplinary approaches to obesity and diabetes management, and strengthen our focus on prevention, self-management and reducing health inequalities.

About Us

Our Nutrition & Dietetics Service is a friendly, supportive Fife-wide service comprising four specialist teams:

• Adult Hospital Team
• Adult Community Team
• Diabetes & Weight Management Team
• Infant, Children & Young People Team

We support undergraduate and graduate student placements (A, B and C), offer rotational opportunities for newly qualified Dietitians, and host regular education and continuing professional development sessions

We are committed to professional development, innovation and delivering high-quality, Dietitian-led models of care. As part of our leadership team, you will have the opportunity to influence service direction, contribute to strategic developments and support the growth of the profession locally and nationally.

Informal Enquiries are welcomed and encouraged:

Kerry Aitken, Professional Head of Nutrition & Dietetic Service [e-mail] 01383 5635350

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior To appointment.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

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